Moahloli, Refiloe
Summary: A picture book exploring the idea of ubuntu--a concept of shared humanity, compassion, and oneness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOACabot, Meg
Summary: Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STELevy, Joanne
Summary: "In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J PA FIC HADDufayet, Danielle
Summary: "Waiting is not easy! And waiting can take a long time. Like waiting on the drip, drip, drip of rain to stop or the ding of the timer for cookies to be done baking. But there's one thing that can make waiting go a little bit faster-a friend!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUYCotter, Bill
Summary: The only rule in Larry's book is that the reader not push the button, but when no one is looking, it may be irresistible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2015
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Summary: Princess Florizella was friends with some of the princesses who had studied the Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long. And their clothes were nice: so richly embroidered. And their shoes were delightful: so tiny and handmade in silk. But their days bored her to death ... Instead, Princess Florizella...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENKrivak, Andrew
Summary: "In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRIHoneyman, Gail.
Summary: "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: "As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction StroutGudenkauf, Heather
Summary: Wylie Lark is snowed in at the farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book. Decades ago, in this very house, two people were murdered and a girl disappeared. Now, Wylie discovers a small child outside.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GUDKent, Minka
Summary: "Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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Summary: "Every night after his mom reads him three stories, Milo, who misses spending time with his absent father, carefully slides out from under the covers (without waking his mom) and tiptoes to the open window to wait for the friendly comet that will take him far above the clouds to help the Keeper of Stars. At the end of a long day, there's lots to clean up in the sky: balloons, stray feathers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2024
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Summary: "In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London--perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FULYee, F. C.
Summary: With her mentors gone, Kyoshi--the true Avatar--voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC YEESalazar, Alicia
Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
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Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARBlack, Holly
Summary: As seneschal to High King Cardan, Jude must fight to keep control of the Faerie throne while her younger brother, Oak, enjoys the childhood she never knew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLABlack, Holly
Summary: Jude must keep her younger brother safe and to do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Cardan does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains strong. Someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves. She must uncover the traitor...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLALu, Marie
Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LUYee, F. C.
Summary: "Kyoshi's place as the true Avatar has finally been cemented-but at a heavy cost. With her mentors gone, Kyoshi voyages to the Southern Air Temple, where she can master the elements beyond what she could have ever imagined. But while her bending grows stronger, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World. To stop it, Kyoshi, Rangi, the daofei, and their reluctant allies must join forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020