Faber, Polly
Summary: "What happens when a little white fox meets a certain jolly old soul? A sweet, enchantingly illustrated take on how Santa spends the year leading up to Christmas. When a hunting fox pounces through the snow and finds itself inside a warm home, it's welcomed and given dinner by a kind bearded man with a big round belly. Soon yawning, the man leaves the fox to explore through piles of strewn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FABHorvath, Polly.
Summary: Jane and her family have moved to Canada . . . but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems he doesn't speak French), the family packs up and Jane embarks on a series of new adventures. At first, she imagines her family as a gang of outlaws, riding on horseback in masks, robbing trains, and traveling all the way to Mexico. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2010
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Polly, Matthew
Summary: "The most authoritative biography--featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs--of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, BRUCE POLSamson, Polly
Summary: "In this novel based on real events and people, a young woman arrives on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and falls in with a bohemian group of poets, painters, and musicians, including the young Leonard Cohen and his beloved Marianne"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMShulman, Polly.
Summary: Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual library— a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. That's where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow White's stepmother's sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Barton, Polly
Summary: "Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARTON, POLLY BARConner, Polly
Summary: Presents more than 75 family-friendly recipes designed to be prepared ahead of time and frozen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 CONFaber, Polly
Summary: "The sky is getting dark. In the city, a little girl is eating her dinner, brushing her teeth, and getting ready for bed. Meanwhile, her mother is putting on her coat and getting ready to go to work. Where is she going and who will she see along the way? As the night goes on, readers will see nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, journalists, and many other workers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FABFarquhar, Polly
Summary: Stuck in summer school and grieving over her grandfather's death, everything seems to be falling apart for Lolo Weaver, so she hatches a plan to fix things by stealing back her grandfather's dog, whose new owner happens to be a new classmate from summer school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARHorvath, Polly
Summary: Ernest's parents are worried because he never really smiles, but Ernest assures them that he is happy--he is just not the kind of guy who smiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.8155 POLStewart, Polly
Summary: The last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle--as well as her grieving husband and young daughter--behind. Now, nearly twenty years later, Nicola, newly unemployed and still haunted by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEDunbar, Polly.
Summary: Ben is delighted to receive a penguin for his birthday but Penguin will not answer or respond to him in any way, no matter what Ben does, until, at last, they discover the language of friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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Summary: When monsters emerge to attack the empire, it is up to twelve-year-old Kiesandra and her beloved winged horse N'Rah to prove to herself and the imperial army that she has what it takes to lead them to victory and survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLHorvath, Polly
Summary: Twelve-year-old Franny Whitekraft lives quietly with her adopted parents on a farm on Vancouver Island until the spring of 1945 when the three Madden children move in, UFOs and ghosts appear, an important military airplane disappears, and wishes made in Old Tom's forbidden night garden will hopefully get everyone out of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HORHorvath, Polly.
Summary: Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOROwen, Polly
Summary: The silly true story of how Darwin discovered that the earthworm is one of the most important species on the planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth. A scholarly worm gives historical facts and context on every page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2023
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Summary: "It's August 1997 and Julian is lost in a medicated haze of grief. His partner, Julia, has removed all traces of herself from Firdaws, their beautiful riverside home, while all that remains of their three-year-old daughter is a single shoe. Unable to work, Julian succumbs to memories: of Julia, of their daughter's illness, and of his childhood at Firdaws. As the summer days grow hotter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMShulman, Polly.
Summary: New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHUColes, Polly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.311 COLConner, Polly
Summary: It’s dinnertime, and yet again, you’re behind. The kids are cranky; the fridge is empty; the kitchen is a mess. Sound familiar? That was every night at the houses of popular bloggers and cookbook authors Polly Conner and Rachel Tiemeyer until they discovered freezer cooking. And once they realized that freezer meals could be made even easier with the hands-free magic of the Instant Pot or slow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6 CONDunbar, Polly.
Summary: Bertie, who loves the color blue and really wants a dog, finally gets his wish even though the dog he meets is white with black spots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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Summary: Information about various topics related to astronomy forms the foundation for projects about the sun and moon, planet rotation, space travel, black holes, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: 520 GoodmNoakes, Polly
Summary: Friends play hide-and-seek in the meadow on a beautiful summer day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's Play Inc 2018