Moalem, Sharon
Summary: In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence. Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes and supersized intelligence, escapes into the world outside the lab where he, aware of humankind's cruelty in the name of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOAApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPAppelfeld, Aharon
Summary: Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Appelfeld 2020McCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: "In this Depression-era novel, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out her husband's term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town following his tragic death. The job is mostly symbolic except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McCrumb 2016Sharff, Billy
Summary: "When one family's cookies are so good that Santa and other holiday characters decide to stay, the question of why this holiday only comes once a year is answered by the time the 4th of July rolls around, when everyone's had a bit too much Christmas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHACharyn, Jerome
Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAMiura, Shion
Summary: A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIUCharyn, Jerome
Summary: ""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Charyn 2019Sharma, Annika
Summary: "Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHASalem, Jon.
Summary: Follow the steamy, glamorous lives of three very different women, Liza, Kellyanne, and Billie, over the course of a summer spent at a posh resort in the Hamptons. With a grisly murder, a premature birth, and a public meltdown all on the docket for this intense and erotic plot, these ladies are in for a summer they'll never forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliiance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALSaxon, Victoria
Summary: "On a snowy day, Nancy and her friends are stuck playing inside--but the plot thickens when Lionel's comic book goes missing! Don't worry, Detective Nancy is on the case." -- From dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SAXMorales, Yuyi.
Summary: At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, LIttle Night, to get ready for bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan 2016
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH MORHeron, Farah
Summary: "When seventeen-year-old aspiring designer Tahira Janmohammad's coveted fashion internship falls through, her parents have a Plan B. Tahira will work in her aunt's boutique in the small town of Bakewell, the flower capital of Ontario. It's only for the summer, and she'll get the experience she needs for her college application. Plus her best friend is coming along. It won't be that bad. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2021
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Summary: Olaf is dismayed to discover that the snowgies are not interested in his warm hugs, but Anna and Elsa explain that differences makes things fun and interesting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SAXHarrigan, Sharon
Summary: "Growing up, identical twins Paula and Artis speak in one voice--until they can't. After years apart, with lives, partners, and children of their own, they are reunited on the occasion of their father's funeral. Seeking to repair the damage wrought upon their relationship by outside forces, the twins retrace their early lives to uncover what happened--but risk unraveling their carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSala, Sharon
Summary: Wade Montgomery's back in Blessings, Georgia just in time for the holidays to help rebuild after a disaster nearly destroyed his family's business. But once he lays eyes on his old friend Birdie Knox, he can't stop thinking about calling Blessings home again ... this time forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory. She can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom, the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. Melody...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DRAMoyle, Sabrina
Summary: This energetic picture book prepares young readers for their first day of school with humor and encouragement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOYEstroff, Sharon
Summary: After finding themselves mysteriously transported to a magical island, this time in a rainforest swamp, Daniel, Joy, and Kimani must figure out how to safely traverse across the island with their knowledge of friction and pulleys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Margin Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ESTChriscoe, Sharon
Summary: After a long day of clearing dirt, rocks, and trees, a bulldozer is tired and ready for bed. He lifts up his blade, his spotlights flash on, he rolls through the gate, and lets out a yawn. He heads to the Wiggle and Shake for a bath, then to the Sip and Slurp for some supper, then chooses a bedtime story ... and soon the bulldozer will be dreaming sweet dreams of finishing his important work!
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Chriscoe 2017Creech, Sharon
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CREDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and his friends form a clubhouse after someone vandalizes their basketball court, and they soon uncover a clue that may tell them who did it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: From a map Ziggy and his friends discover an old tunnel that was once used as a safe haven by escaped slaves. While checking out the tunnel, the trap door gets stuck and the boys are forced to use the old, dark, damp tunnels that just may be haunted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011