Summary: In this adaptation of a Czech legend about an infertile couple, a husband presents a tree stump that physically resembles a baby to console his wife. When she treats it like a real baby, it begins to take on a life and a monstrous hunger of its own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LITGunter, Veronika Alice.
Summary: Chef Morgan, who has worked in the pastry arts for nearly 20 years, takes you through the basics of baking a gingerbread house from scratch. Close-up color photographs will make you feel as if he is standing by your side in the kitchen, helping you with each step. Try your hand at 17 charming, delectable houses that can be easily made by a beginner but won't look like it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 GUNChambers, Veronica
Summary: This timely book covers the rise of Black Lives Matter and how it has been shaped by United States history, telling the story of how a hashtag became a movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds--black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and more--who helped lead the fight for suffrage? On the hundredth anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 CHAChambers, Veronica
Summary: "A nonfiction collection of profiles of prominent activists for young readers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: J920 CHAChambers, Veronica
Summary: Adoring her talented magician father and heritage-proud mother, Angela finds her life altered when her mother leaves the family to join the cause of Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, who has recently escaped from prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ChambHeley, Veronica.
Summary: While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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Summary: Laura Griffin is preparing for an empty nest, and hopes it will mean more time for herself, and more time with her husband, Dom. But when an exposed secret shakes their marriage, Laura feels as though her family is shrinking around her. She turns to her greatest comfort: her grandmother's recipe box, a treasured collection dating back to the Second World War. Inspired by the old Blitz spirit,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Books 0000
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Summary: "It's a dark and stormy night when three sleuthing little girls get pulled into a web of mystery. They have mistakenly uncovered a secret society of some of the most famous female spies in history. A glamorous spy named Josephine Baker enlists the girls to find out who has kidnapped Chiquita, her precious pet cheetah. Do the girls have what it takes to become spies themselves?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MANPeerless, Veronica.
Summary: How Not to Kill Your Houseplant helps you create an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants.--COVER.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 PEERoth, Veronica
Summary: Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice--catastrophic events known as Drains--leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. On the tenth anniversary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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Summary: Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD YA FIC ROTThompson, Veronica
Summary: Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed engineering projects, including constructing an airplane from a plastic bottle, transforming an old T-shirt into a working wind sock, and building a small city from plastic containers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 THOWagner, Veronica
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix International Publications 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR Purple Wagner 2015Burningham, Veronica.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Search Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.42 BURChambers, Veronica
Summary: Ten-year-old larger-than-life Flora Violeta LeFevre uses humor and a little mischief to navigate her best friend moving away, her sister's overbearing and all-consuming quince preparations, and a surprising new friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAHeley, Veronica
Summary: Ellie investigates some mysterious deaths in the community that may or may not be suicide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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Summary: A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church, and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered to be the problem. Worse still, someone dies. When more suspect food turns up, Ellie's investigative instincts are aroused, for these incidents seem connected with her friend's troubled past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELPaz, Veronica.
Summary: SpongeBob invites his friends over for a night of watching vacation slides. But these are Bikini Bottom vacations, and they're anything but relaxing!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPORoth, Veronica
Summary: When Cyra's father Lazmet Noavek, a soulless tyrant thought to be dead, reclaims the throne, Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are desperate to stop him from igniting a barbaric war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Told from Tobias's point of view, Four shares details of his transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his intiation, and claiming his place in the Dauntless hierarchy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2014