Nuurali, Siman
Summary: When Sadiq and his classmates host a festival celebrating their own cultures, they find a way to make sure everyone in their class has traditions to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUSteel, Danielle
Summary: In Danielle Steel's epic new novel, the lives of four generations of women in one family span fortune and loss, motherhood, tragedy and victories. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s-history holds many surprises, and lives are changed forever. For richer or for poorer, in cramped apartments and grand mansions, the treasured...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2020Grainger, Jean
Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. April 1912. Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing on the streets with other children. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House. The local women envy her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerDerby, Cindy
Summary: "When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DERGrainger, Jean
Summary: Robinswood Estate, County Waterford, Ireland. 1946. Years of neglect and abandonment have left the family seat of the Keneficks almost derelict, but the new Lord Kenefick and his charming young wife Kate, are determined to breathe life into the old house once more. The war is over and they have survived, so now they must set about making a bright future for themselves and their family. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerDawson, Keila V.
Summary: Annabelle and her little brother, Beau, cannot decide which kind of gumbo to cook, so Annabelle suggests taking a family vote, but when some family members are not happy with the results, Annabelle comes up with a solution that satisfies everyone. Includes a glossary of Louisiana Creole terms, a cultural note, and math activities for developing data literacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAWParish, Herman
Summary: Accidentally hurting the feelings of a class newcomer during the annual ice-cream party, young Amelia Bedelia and her friends practice new skills in manners, kindness, and friendship that are complicated by Amelia's literal-minded comprehension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PARBrandenburg, Lauren H.
Summary: "Roy Blackwell has proposed to Margarette Toft. A controversial decision given their families are sworn enemies! Soon Coraloo's feuding clans are competing to organize events for the most talked about wedding of the year... and glorious chaos ensues! But as the depth of the two families' animosity becomes clear, Roy and Margarette's relationship begins to falter. Then Roy unearths a town secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Hudson Limited 2020
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BRAWatson, Brad.
Contents: Last days of the dog-men -- Seeing eye -- Agnes of Bob -- A blessing -- A retreat -- Bill -- The wake -- Kindred spirits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATBalogh, Mary
Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Collects six short novels from one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESattouf, Riad
Summary: "From the author of The Arab of the Future, comes the first book in a bestselling series of graphic novels that follow the hilarious, heartbreaking, and all painfully true life of a real girl growing up in Paris. Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's 10-year old daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, her family, her school, her friends, her hopes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 741.5 SATDev, Sonali
Summary: Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVWharton, Edith
Summary: The Age of Innocence is the haunting story of the struggle between love and duty in Gilded Age New York told through the eyes of Newland Archer and his betrothed, May Welland. A young lawyer on the rise, Newland Archer needs only a society wife to solidify his position, but finds himself torn after he meets and falls deeply in love with May's disgraced cousin, the Countess Olenska. Edith...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wharton 1996Williams, Niall
Summary: "Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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Contents: The age of innocence -- Summer -- Madame De Treymes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHABalogh, Mary
Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society-even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELayne, Lauren
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of To Sir, With Love and the Central Park Pact series comes a reverse My Fair Lady tale about a pampered Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished drifter from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with New York City's upper crust. Somewhere between antagonistic dinner parties and tortured tux fittings, this pair of polar opposites slowly find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAYBalogh, Mary
Summary: "Can Lady Philippa Ware forgive the man who once shattered all her youthful dreams? Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Philippa, elder daughter of the Earl of Stratton, grew up eagerly anticipating a glittering debut and a brilliant marriage. Then her brother caught their father out in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALAtwood, Margaret
Summary: Stories that explore themes of loss and discovery, of the gap between youthful dreams and mature reality, of how we connect with others and with the sometimes hidden part of ourselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWBowles, Jane
Contents: Two serious ladies.--In the summer house.--Plain pleasures: Plain pleasures. Everything is nice. A Guatemalan idyll. Camp Cataract. A day in the open. A quarreling pair. A stick of green candy.--Other stories: Andrew. Emmy Moore's journal. Going to Massachusetts.--From the notebooks: The iron table. Lila and Frank. Friday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWCarter, Angela
Summary: Forty-two stories. In The Bloody Chamber, a bride discovers she married a sadist, The Quilt Maker is on aging, and Our Lady of the Massacres is on the destruction of Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Contents: The wood-sprite -- Russian spoken here -- Sounds -- Wingstroke -- Gods -- A matter of chance -- The seaport -- Revenge -- Beneficence -- Details of a sunset -- The thunderstorm -- La veneziana -- Bachmann -- The dragon -- Christmas -- A letter that never reached Russia -- The fight -- The return of Chorb -- A guide to Berlin -- A nursery tale -- Terror -- Razor -- The passenger -- The doorbell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NABPorter, Katherine Anne
Summary: Three short novels deal with turn of the century family life, a new hired hand, and the World War I homefront and the influenza epidemic
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990