Wan, Michelle
Summary: Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who's tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they're sent to shake rent out of. One night Keno and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANSchaefer, Lola M.
Summary: "Zoom! Zoom! All cars want to race! Who will win first place?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024
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Summary: During Fire Safety Day, twin siblings who both want to be firefighters learn all about different types of firefighters, from those who fight forest fires to those who work at airports to help with airplane emergencies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DRICassidy, Sara
Summary: "In this novel-in-verse for teen readers, 15-year-old Tuck navigates new love, past trauma and standing up for what's right."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASDyckman, Ame
Summary: Og learns the value of teamwork as he builds a robot with Mog and Dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR ORANGE DYCMcAdam, Tash
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, nonbinary teen Brick must rescue the crew of the spaceship they snuck onto when it is taken over by pirates."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCAMinden, Cecilia.
Summary: "Jack likes to play baseball and his team has a game. Will they win? Find out in this A-level decodable chapter book for early readers. This book uses a combination of short-vowel words and sight words in repetition to build recognition. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Teach Phon MindenShea, Lisa.
Summary: When villainous Dormammu opens a portal in the sky he unwittingly unleashes an attack by aliens. Villain or Super Hero--it doesn't matter what side you're on--these aliens are on a mission to take over the world. It's up to Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and the Hulk and the other Squaddies to work together with the Villains to save Earth from alien invasion!
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2012
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Summary: "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORDriscoll, Laura
Summary: "Harry, the mischievous little white dog with black spots, isn't happy when the children blame him for a squirrel's bad behavior. When he tries to explain what happened, he only makes it worse. Can Harry find a way out of trouble? Harry's Squirrel Trouble is a Level One I Can Read and Guided Reading Level J, which means it's perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROJones, Matt
Summary: Discover the dark side of the LEGO (R) Star Wars (TM) galaxy. From Darth Vader to Kylo Ren, learn all about the evil villains that want to destroy the heroic Jedi. This Level 1 book is illustrated with brand-new LEGO Star Wars sets, and has true kid appeal. Narrative spreads are supported with captions and annotations, and a quiz, to encourage children to develop comprehension skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Adder's all set to start her new job at Badger's Cleaning Company. But when she climbs a ladder for the first time, she quickly finds she has no head for heights. Can anything help her overcome her fears?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN PUNJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "In his younger days, Taylor Callahan didn't know right from wrong - and didn't much care either. As a Confederate bushwhacker, renegade outlaw, and all-around hellraiser, he gave the devil himself a run for his money. Most folks figured Taylor would end up swinging from a noose or shot dead in a poker game. But somewhere along the road to perdition, he decided to change his wicked ways. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHFellman, Isaac R.
Summary: Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really tell anything. For years she guided pilgrims up the foothills of the Sublime Mount, leading them as high as God would let them go. And then she partnered the apostate Southern priest Mother Disaine on the most daring, most blasphemous expedition in history -- an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aqueduct Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELLim, Aimee
Summary: When Evie Mei discovers that her recently deceased mother was the head of a guild of magical weavers, she enters the Chinese netherworld to try and bring her back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMFerber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCoss Aquino, Melissa
Summary: "Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls--more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AQUOldland, Nicholas
Summary: "There once was a bear, a moose and a beaver who loved to celebrate Christmas. One Christmas Eve, the three friends were so caught up with their holiday preparations that they forgot about the most important decoration of all: a tree! So they ran out to the forest to find the perfect sweet-smelling, soft-needled, just-the-right-size tree! But there was one problem: the bear, who loved all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OLDAvi
Summary: As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010