Grabenstein, Chris
Summary: When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2020
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Summary: A compilation of strips featuring the voracious and hedonist orange feline finds him continuing his abuse of the long-suffering Jon and Odie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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Summary: Sadie Montgomery suddenly went from being a finalist in an art competition to being diagnosed with a "face blindness." Struggling to cope, she falls in love with not one man but two. The timing couldn't be worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CENLee, Laura Piper
Summary: "Hannah Tate can hardly believe her sleep-deprived eyes when she finds an engagement ring hidden in the closet. Killian, her super responsible, incredibly attractive boyfriend--and the father of her new baby, Bowie--is finally going to propose. But a romantic night out goes horribly wrong when Killian reveals he's dumping Hannah, not proposing. Furious and heartbroken, Hannah takes Bowie and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEEGriffiths, Andy
Summary: When Santa Claus's sleigh crashes in the treehouse, Santa falls into the cloning machine. With no way to tell which is the real Santa, who will deliver all the presents? Andy, Terry, and Jill must save Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Look what Brain found. Chick and Spot say it is an egg. Brain says it is an eyeball. Is it an egg or an eyeball? The inimitable Cece Bell is back with a second hilarious primer on good manners gone awry and arguments run amok. Perfectly pitched to kids just learning to read and loaded with verbal and visual comedy, this offbeat graphic story by a master of the genre builds to an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: Dinosaurs tell funny jokes to make each other laugh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2010
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Summary: "¡Nate el grande vive a tope ! Cuando le piden a Nate que se haga amigo de un nuevo alumno, se muestra más que dispuesto...hasta que lo conoce. ¿Tendrá Nate que aguantar a un aguafiestas? ¿O su nuevo compañero será el alma de la fiesta?"-- Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RBA / Lectorum 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEIKinsella, Sophie
Summary: Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: At 24, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet—a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds—introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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Summary: When Stretchy, a good looking street cat with an unusual personality, takes a break from his large, rambunctious family, he meets Beanie, a girl who is similarly unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCHMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. This is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors, is only ten feet wide. Her ex's home is attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third (aka the uptight, judgmental jerk who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DADBenton, Jim
Summary: In this newest collection of hilarious stories, the dynamic feline duo explore fine art, travel to an alternate reality where the world has become extraordinarily dumb, get into gaming, and more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2019
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Summary: At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACWarden, Anoushka
Summary: When a woman can't stand sex with her third serious boyfriend, she embarks on a journey of desperation and self-discovery in which she'll try anything to fix it, but maybe desire and long-term love just don't go together. -- Adapted from book jacket summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011
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Reynolds, Justin A.
Summary: "When twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Holloway and his friends are left home from Beach Bash, aka the greatest party of the year, only to realize that everyone in town has disappeared without a trace, they do what any smart, responsible kids would do ... have the best day ever! No parental supervision sounds fun for a while, but forever is a long time. And soon the gang starts to notice strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC REYMay, Kyla
Summary: When their friend Jack cannot join them, Bub the pug and his human, Bella, vow to bring him souvenirs from their road trip, and despite some bumps along the way, Bub calls their trip a big success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: April is kind, pretty, and relatively normal, yet she can't seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she's found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful, leaving her heartbroken. And angry. Until she realizes that what men are looking for is Gretel. Gretel is perfect, beautiful but low maintenance, sweet but never clingy, sexy but not a slut. She's a Regular Everyday Manic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOUFoges, Clare
Summary: At night when you are sleeping there's a party in your house. It's a pumping, jumping, funky bash when all the lights go out ... When the sun goes down, the Kitchen Disco starts up - and all the fruit in the fruit bowl come out to play! There are lemons who break-dance, tangerines who twirl and some very over-excited apples!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber Limited 2017
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE FOGGidwitz, Adam.
Summary: Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2012