Jortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORSummary: Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. Assigned to an abandoned fort with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor, he overcomes the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become a friend of the tribe. But his knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAN PG-13Fauré, Gabriel
Contents: Nocturne in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1 (8:23) -- Impromptu No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 31 (3:24) -- Barcarolle No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 26 (5:11) -- Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 65 (8:54) -- Barcarolle No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 105 (5:08) -- Barcarolle No. 6 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (3:13) -- Barcarolle No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 90 (4:04) -- Barcarolle No. 2 in G Major, Op. 41 (7:14) -- Barcarolle No. 5...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Musical Concepts 2015
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Maysa
Contents: Back 2 Love (4:29) -- Keep It Movin' (4:19) -- Heavenly Voices (4:42) -- Miracle (4:16) -- Smilin' (3:42) -- Go Away Little Boy (3:55) -- Tear It Up Tear It Down (4:19) -- Unforgettable (3:54) -- Last Chance For Love (4:40) -- The Radio Played Our Song (3:40) -- Beautiful Symphony (3:48) -- Back 2 Love (Remix) (4:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2015
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Cheeks, Maura
Summary: "In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHEMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMA RATED PG-13Gortner, C. W.
Summary: No one believed I was destined for greatness. So begins Isabella's story, in this evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World. Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner envisages the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Dole, Mayra
Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 DOLGortner, C. W.
Summary: "Marlene reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, glamour, and ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and forged her own path on her own terms."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORMarra, Anthony.
Summary: In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGortner, C. W.
Summary: Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage. She is brought to Russia, and marries the Romanov heir, Alexander. Once he ascends the throne, she becomes empress Maria. When their son, Nicholas, inherits the throne he is the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GORStojic, Manya.
Summary: The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOStojic, Manya.
Summary: As snow approaches and begins to fall, Moose, Bear, Fox, and other forest creatures prepare for winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOBottner, Barbara
Summary: "Priscilla is obsessed with gorillas. But when her ape-like behavior gets her sent to the Thinking Corner, Priscilla wonders if she is really channeling her inner gorilla, or just being a troublemaker"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOTBottner, Barbara.
Summary: A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOTRouda, Kaira.
Summary: "The perfect home. The perfect family. The perfect lie. Jane Harris lives in a sparkling home in an oceanfront gated community in Orange County. It's a place that seems too beautiful to be touched by sadness. But exactly one year ago, Jane's oldest daughter, Mary, died in a tragic accident and Jane has been grief-stricken ever since. Lost in a haze of anti-depressants, she's barely even left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUGortner, C. W.
Summary: The era of the Tudors was one of danger, intrigue, conspiracy, and, above all, spies. Summer 1553 was a time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, has been reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, Prescott finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the king's brilliant but enigmatic sister, Princess Elizabeth. But Brendan is soon compelled to work...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Mabry, Samantha
Summary: Sarah Jac Crow and James Holt have fallen in love working in the endless fields that span a bone-dry Southwest in the near-future--a land that's a little bit magical, deeply dangerous, and bursting with secrets. To protect themselves, they've learned to work hard and--above all--keep their love hidden from the people who might use it against them. Then, just when Sarah Jac and James have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MABSilverman, Maida.
Summary: When her little brother is taken away by the seven swans belonging to the terrible witch, Baba Yaga, Anna searches for him in the great dark forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1984
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 SILHesse, María
Summary: "Frida Kahlo fue algo más que dolor y angustia. Quiso ser fiel a su arrolladora personalidad y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es sangre y sufrimiento, pero también fiesta, color. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera, una mujer apasionada que no se conformó con estar a la sombra de su gran amor, el pintor Diego Rivera, y peleó por alcanzar cada uno de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH HESAdler, Malka
Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADLCollins, Manda
Summary: "England, 1865: As one of England's most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power. And she's determined to inform and educate the ladies of London on the nefarious-and deadly-criminals who are praying on the fairer sex. When her reporting leads to the arrest of a notorious killer, however, Katherine flees to a country house party to escape her newfound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLManning, Maurie.
Summary: Two sleepy children sneak out of their beds to watch as their parents, who love each other very much, break into a dance while washing the dishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2008