Padilla, Francesca
Summary: After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PADWeir, Ivy Noelle
Summary: "Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and 'friends.' When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC WEISandri, Barbara
Summary: Welcome to the wonderful world of chickens! This beloved barnyard bird is full of surprises. Did you know some chickens are so small they can perch in the palm of your hand, and others have feathers that look like a beard? Chickens can learn to count up to four and have excellent hearing--many even like to listen to music! Chickenology takes young readers on a fascinating and informative tour...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2021
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Summary: "The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Though many years have passed, another orphan - this time a lonely American girl - makes an exciting journey to the enchanting manor where the magic began. Under the watchful eye of the keeper of the garden's key, the young orphan discovers that unlocking all the mysteries of the garden will take faith, courage and determination before life can bloom lavishly once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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Summary: Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate try to return home after being transported fifty years into the past while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SEDMiralles, Francesc
Summary: When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year’s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments—until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Sanna, Francesca
Summary: When a young girl has to move countries and start at a new school, her fear tells her to be alone and afraid. How can she hope to make friends if she doesn't understand anyone? Surely no one else feels the same way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orio Children's Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SIMStone, Francesca
Summary: Planters, Vases, Dishes and More, Without a Pottery Studio! You'll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.1 STOEkwuyasi, Francesca
Summary: "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EKWGreenoak, Francesca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Pub. 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.9674 GREHornak, Francesca
Summary: "A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays... It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter--who is usually off saving the world--will be joining them at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate. But Olivia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HornakMomplaisir, Francesca
Summary: "Genevieve, a single mother, flies to Port-au-Prince in 2010 with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for Miles-a chance to learn about his family's roots while coming to terms with his father's departure-but it's also an excuse for Genevieve to escape New York City, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMMontillo, Francesca
Summary: Real Italian cuisine is all about simplicity. Using just a few fresh and simple ingredients, The 5-Ingredient Italian Cookbook brings you the authentic taste of Italy with recipes that prove less is always more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 MonZappia, Francesca
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZAPBoada, Francesc.
Summary: A clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BOACavallo, Francesca
Summary: While still inspiring rebel girls of the world to dream bigger, aim higher, and fight harder, this sequel is bigger than each of us, bigger than our individual hopes, and certainly bigger than our fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timbuktu Labs 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CAVDiPiazza, Francesca
Summary: Have you ever created art based on a TV show or game? Dressed up as your favorite character? If so, you've entered fandom. Tour fandom's history and meet creators who shape fan communities online and in real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 DIPRusackas, Francesca.
Summary: When a little pig worries about being apart from his mother when he goes off to school, she reassures him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION RusackasSegal, Francesca
Summary: As he prepares for his wedding to Rachel Gilbert, the girl he has been with for twelve years, Adam Newman begins to question everything when Rachel's fiercely independent and beautiful young cousin moves home from New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice / Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGSegal, Francesca
Summary: "Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny South Atlantic island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered Gold Coin tortoises in the jungle interior. She can claim the best of reasons for this year in paradise-What better motivation than to save a species?-but the reality is more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers--with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022