Silvie, Monica
Summary: "Watch out on your next walk through the forest, because you just might encounter a real rapscallion in the form of a tiny bird! In this hilarious tale, Chickadee recounts how he went from a normal bird 'childhood' to a daring life of crime. One cold, snowy morning, shivering and hungry, he discovers a vault of gold -- and steals from it! His natural colouring resembling a mask helps him blend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILDoehnert, Rodica
Summary: Vienna, 1892. Against all odds, at the height of Belle Époque splendor, Anna Sacher has taken possession of her late husband’s hotel, across the street from the famous opera house. At a time when controlling such a business was an opportunity afforded only to men, Anna is as vigilant as she is relentless. Now, under her ownership, the Hotel Sacher thrives amid the tumult of a changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DoeSilvey, Craig.
Summary: A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Mofina, Rick.
Summary: Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes—one, an off-duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers. FBI agent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Molnar, Szilvia
Summary: "The Nursery details a new mother's spiraling descent into a state of complete disaffection. Following the birth of her baby, "Button," she has a difficult time identifying with her post-pregnancy body, Button "itself," and finding comfort in her relationships--with the exception of her elderly upstairs neighbor, whom she strikes up a tentative friendship with. Plagued by intrusive thoughts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOLWood, Monica.
Summary: 1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father's wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Brashears, Monica
Summary: "Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAHesse, Monica
Summary: "Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESKulling, Monica.
Summary: Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KulPotts, Monica
Summary: "Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTWellington, Monica
Summary: "A fun story with maps and mazes shows children where their food comes from"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.5 WELLainoff, Lillie
Summary: France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAIWellington, Monica
Summary: "A young dancer writes a letter to a ballerina she admires"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WELWellington, Monica.
Summary: Annie the apple farmer saves her most beautiful apples to sell fresh at the farmers' market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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Summary: Annie is a very busy apple farmer. She bakes yummy treats with the apples she picks and saves her most beautiful apples to sell fresh at the farmers' market. Includes three recipes using apples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: STO WelArnaldo, Monica
Summary: When a kindergarten class arrives for the first day at school, they are greeted only by the words "Mr. S" on the chalkboard and a delicious-looking sandwich, resulting in merry mayhem as the kids wonder if the sandwich is their teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNBrown, Monica
Summary: Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol -- can't she just choose one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: Determined to embrace her new life as a "Surprisingly Young Divorcee," twenty-nine-year-old Maggie, with the help of her tough-loving academic advisor, her newly divorced friend Amy, and her group chat, barrels through her first year of singledom, searching for what truly makes her happy.
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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 HEIWellington, Monica
Summary: "A young girl visits a park in the autumn to collect fallen leaves. She identifies various trees by the shapes of their leaves and pastes her collection into her own leaf book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WELWellington, Monica.
Summary: During the night, all the objects in the house wake up and cause an uproar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WelKulling, Monica.
Summary: Describes the man and the story behind the creation of America's national anthem, profiling Francis Scott Key as a busy and respected political advisor who was inspired to write his famous poem after witnessing the Battle of Fort McHenry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.5 KULPerez, Monica.
Summary: Curious George is given the winning dogs from a dog show that he has attended and, once he is home, decides to count how many he has.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR GREEN PERSweeney, Monica
Summary: Delicious dinners don’t have to mean endless dishes! Introducing Skillet & Sheet Pan Suppers, a collection of one-pan meals that will revolutionize the way you prepare dinner. Feed your family in half the time with a fraction of the effort—and no one will know the difference!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.7 SWEMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022