Kertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KERKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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Summary: When he awakens from hibernation, Little Bear's hunger leads him to a house where a Purim celebration is just beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday AdelsonGillen, Lynea.
Summary: A story to help children become mindful of caring people in their world, to ease their fears and to develop their sense of gratitude. Includes two activity pages to encourage children to find the good people in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Pebble Press 2012
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Summary: A collection of flash fiction that explores the intricacies, intimacies, and strangeness of grief and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ELJ Editions, Ltd. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STATruss, Lynne
Summary: It's September in Brighton and the city is playing host to weeks of endless rain and lashings of villainy. A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a huge heist; a violent criminal obsessed with boiling the heads of policemen has escaped Broadmoor and is rumoured to be headed towards the city, while at Gosling's department store an American researcher has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TRUHugo, Lynne
Summary: After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct A Plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type. The drunk driver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUGKutsukake, Lynne.
Summary: An emotionally gripping portrait of post-war Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KUTRandall, Ronne.
Summary: This clear, simple retelling of the classic children's story of The Little Mermaid helps with children's speech and language skills as they learn first words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC RANBontigao, Lynnor
Summary: "Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with everything you could need, from hair accessories to toys, creamy yema to sour tamarind candy. And this year, Nora is big enough to help her grandmother. But when a heat wave strikes and no one comes to the store, Nora worries that she won't get to spend the rest of the summer with her lola -- until she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BONLinke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINGlynn, Connie
Summary: Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who has spent her life longing for the extraordinary. Ellie Wolf is the crown princess of Maradova, who wants nothing more than a chance at an ordinary life. When fate puts Lottie and Ellie in the same dorm room at the prestigious Rosewood Hall, there's only one solution: for the girls to swap identities, and live the lives they've always dreamed of. But at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLYRandall, Ronne.
Summary: Three billy goats attempt to cross a bridge guarded by a hungry troll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2013
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Summary: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it's not easy. She deserted them all, and her high school sweetheart, five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LANThynne, Jane
Summary: "New York, present day: On a whim, photographer Juno Lambert buys the 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unpublished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in the story of Cordelia and her sister's loving yet tempestuous relationship. England, 1936: Cordelia's socialite sister, Irene, marries a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THYGwynne, Carrie
Summary: In Doing household chores, learn more about how cleaning smart can lead to a healthier life. In Keep it clean, Jake finds out what happens when a person does not keep up with chores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648 GWYWynne-Jones, Tim
Summary: Accompanying his "sidekick" mom to the shoe store for a daring mission, S.A.M. confronts a shifty clerk before discovering that his brand-new tiger-striped shoes convey the superpower of enabling him to tie his own shoelaces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WYNWynne, S. C.
Summary: "Harper Jones is a professional bike courier, and in his business if you don't ride fast, you don't make money. His apartment has mice, he's barely able to scrape up the rent, but at least he's living life on his terms and doesn't depend on anyone. Sam Foster is the gay son of a wealthy conservative senator. He's noticed Harper before when he's dropped off packages at his dad's company, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wynne Wynne Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYNLayne, Lauren
Summary: "Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives to make the best out of every situation. So when her father dies just five months after a lung cancer diagnosis, she sets aside her dreams of pursuing her passion for art to take over his Midtown Manhattan champagne shop. She soon finds out that the store's profit margins are being squeezed perilously tight, and complicating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAYHatch, Leanne
Summary: As Cole grows older, his baby blanket still means a lot to him until it unravels, and then he is ready to give it up--but is his mother?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books / Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HATMoriarty, Liane
Summary: Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. She has to figure out why her sister hardly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2015
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Summary: It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STORubin, Lance
Summary: The author of Denton Little's Deathdate gives us a tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018