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Colfer, Eoin Grinnell, George James Heller, Peter Sewell, Kitty. Sterling, Michelle MinSterling, Michelle Min
Summary: In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets. Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother, Rose agrees to travel to Camp Zero and spy on its architect in exchange for housing. She arrives at the same time as another newcomer, a college professor named Grant who is determined to flee his wealthy family₂s dark legacy. Gradually,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESewell, Kitty.
Summary: At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success in both the hospital and at home. He and his wife have everything they want out of life, except the child she longs for, the child Dr. Woodruff secretly believes he may never be ready to parent. Suddenly, the delicate equilibrium of their relationship is blown apart by the arrival of shocking news. Deep in the desolate sub-Arctic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEWColfer, Eoin
Summary: Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLFER (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Heller, Peter
Summary: "Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HELCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Heller 2019Sewell, Kitty.
Summary: Learning that he had fathered twins in icy remote Canada fifteen years earlier, a British surgeon finds his career and marriage rapidly unraveling in the face of painful changes that compel him to confront past demons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SEWGrinnell, George James
Summary: The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens. In 1955 an expedition group was swept over a waterfall in the Arctic region of Northern Canada. Their most experienced person died; most of the gear and emergency food supplies were destroyed. Learn how they made it out-- barely alive-- and of Grinnell's lifelong struggle to find meaning in the midst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2010