Jalali, Reza
Summary: "Looking through the tall trees in their backyard in Maine, Shirin and her dad search for a glimpse of the new moon, the sign that the month of Ramadan has begun. Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world pray, fast, and pay special attention to doing good deeds. Shirin is nine and thinks she should be able to fast like her older brother Ali, but her parents feel she is still too young to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JALMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: "Journey into an idyllic, heartwarming, and fanciful story in The Anne Collection, with Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery. The Anne of Green Gables series is the tale of Anne Shirley, a young girl orphaned and sent to live with a family who initially wanted to adopt a boy. Anne is kindhearted and charming, and wins over everyone she meets throughout her adventures in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Sixteen year old Anne Shirley is now a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: There's never a dull moment for busy, bustling Anne, who's now the mother of five children and has a sixth one on the way. With her visiting aunt, the insufferable Mary Maria, also in the mix--and soon wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is a constant whirl. But despite the endless demands on her time, Anne can't think of any place she'd rather be than her beloved Ingleside. At least not until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONMilbourne, Anna
Summary: "This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of a little boy's fear of the dark. Lyrical writing inspires a positive attitude to the dark, including the idea that it's only when it's truly dark that you can see the stars. Laser-cut holes show shadows, monster eyes in a dark bedroom, and a stunning starry sky." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Educational Development Corporation 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LASGibney, Shannon
Summary: Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GIBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GIBSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWO'Brien, Edna
Summary: "Moving from Ireland to London and then to The Hague, the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OBRShipley, Jocelyn
Summary: "After his girlfriend's accidental death by overdose, Kipp has been living on the streets, overwhelmed by his grief. He wants to honor her memory and finds help to get clean, but just when he feels like he's getting his life together, everything comes crashing down. He gets fired from his job and kicked out of his rented room on the same day. So when Reba, a friendly woman he met at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHISisler, Celeste
Summary: While preparing for Suzette's birthday party, Johnny-Ray and his friends find that Timmy fell into a hole and needs help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green SislerNontshokweni, Sihle
Summary: Wanda visits the hair salon, but when Aunty Ada wants to straighten Wanda's hair instead of giving her the style she wants, Wanda and her new friend Nkiruka come up with a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NONFraser, Mary Ann
Summary: A child learns about the life cycle of a giant pumpkin and the rewards of letting it grow. Includes "Pumpkin Fun Facts" and information on growing and racing giant pumpkins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRAHamilton, Sable
Summary: Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMO'Brien, Edna
Summary: The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRHamilton, Sable
Summary: Kami Cooper is already an accomplished rider, but when she joins the Stardust stunt-riding stables in Colorado, she discovers she still has a lot to learn--and being a stunt double is not all glamour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMSigler, Scott.
Summary: As people across America are transformed into raving, paranoid, murderous monsters by a mysterious bioengineered parasite, Perry Dawsey confronts his own battle with the infection as he discovers that the parasites want something from him that goes beyond murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOFinley, Jeremy
Summary: "Anchor and investigative journalist for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Jeremy Finley's debut thriller explores what happens to people's lives when our world intersects with the unexplainable. When four-year-old William vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, "The lights took him," and then never speaks again. With these words, the boys' grandmother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINRipley, Mike.
Summary: Margery Allingham's Mr. Campion finds himself masquerading as advisor to a very suspicious but glamorous film producer hunting for buried treasure that never was in the Suffolk villages of Sweethearting and Heronhoe, which used to host trysts between the future King Edward VIII and Mrs. Wallis Simpson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIPBryan, Kinley
Summary: "It's 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream--to open a restaurant back home--but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. In Sunny's Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Mug Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYAdams, Alane
Summary: As Abigail enters her second year at Tarkana Witch Academy, she and her friend Hugo are swept into a puzzling mystery involving an Orkadian warship and a powerful missing item.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Adams 2019Figley, Marty Rhodes
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Santa cannot find the special Christmas underwear he wears every year, and nothing else seems quite right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E FIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC FIGPixley, Marcella Fleischman
Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIXO'Brien, Robert C.
Summary: Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008