Geda, Fabio
Summary: An unflinching, inspirational, and incredibly moving novel based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, a young boy whose agonizing struggle begins after his native Afghanistan becomes a dangerous place to live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEDSummary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An elite military unit (SG-1) must flee back to Earth when two members of their team inexplicably disappear into thin air. But they return to a world in which the Stargate--an ancient device which allows them to travel to hundreds of planets--was never discovered, and their own history has been erased. Now they must convince a dubious government and military that the timeline was altered by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM DVD 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stargate 2008Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASpecter, Baron
Summary: Jared Jensen is being pursued by a pair of ghostly graverobbers, and he and his friends, the Zombie Hunters, need to find a solution before Jared himself is turned into a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SPEChen, Jiatong
Summary: A young white fox called Dilah returns home to find his mother gravely injured. Before she dies, she tells him about a treasure with the power to make animals human. The clues to its location are contained in a moonstone buried beneath their den. But wicked blue foxes seek the treasure too and Dilah must race to find it first. Along the way, he meets all sorts of other creatures: a friendly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: George and Harold have been turned into evil zombie nerds. Unfortunately, the boys can't count on Captain Underpants for help because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating him in the first place. With Tippy having changed the course of human history forever, George and Harold will have to figure out a way to change it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PILWilliams, Vera B.
Summary: Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILSummary: A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Home Pictures Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midnight 2011Larson, Hope
Summary: "Twelve-year-old twin adventurers Cleopatra and Alexandra Dodge are reunited with their father and realize that two family heirlooms reveal the location of a treasure that is their birthright. When they set sail with Captain Tarboro on the Almira, they know they're heading into danger --the ocean is filled with new and old enemies, including their nemesis, the infamous pirate Felix...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Larson 2017Alinas, Marv
Summary: Kip and his friend Pip have adventures on a ship. This simple story for beginning readers teaches the "ip" sound through rhyming text and bright, original illustrations. Additional features to aid in comprehension include a word list for review, a note to parents and educators, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: In addition to a full payload of outrageous extras not shown on TV, volume six delivers 13 mind-bendering new episodes that involve time travel, self-replication, covert missions, alien eggs, and more robot roughhousing than you can shake a girder at. It's a scream, the good kind!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FUTOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lectorum Publications 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 OsbSummary: Crank up the gravity and put your head safely in a jar! It's Volume Seven of FUTURAMA, the animated sci-fi comedy from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Crammed with a whole new dimension of extras not shown on TV, this cosmic collection includes 13 bizarre and brilliant episodes involving ancient prophecies, presidents' heads, robot gangsters, angry butterflies, and of course,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FUTSoontornvat, Christina
Summary: "A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. This is the story of a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman - and in a kingdom where the status...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SOOWest, Tracey
Summary: "Congratulations! You have been chosen by the Dragon Stone! Here is your official Dragon Master guide. Inside you will find facts about the Dragon Masters and their powerful dragons, review secret notes from me and other wizards, study world maps, learn the history of the Dragon Masters, and more! - Griffith of the Green Fields, Royal Wizard to King Roland of Bracken." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WESSummary: Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2015
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WaSummary: The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life, so he decides to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim discovers that, in the end,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ABOAzzarello, Brian
Summary: Groups of reactivated Minutemen and their accomplices face off in Mexico and Ronnie Rome decides to do business with Echo Memoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2007
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AZZMustian, Kelly
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Brown, Skila
Summary: A young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846 describes how her family and others became victims of freezing temperatures and starvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROAzzarello, Brian
Summary: A mysterious man calling himself Agent Graves contacts people who have been seriously wronged and offers them a chance to get revenge--an untraceable gun, one hundred rounds of ammunition, and complete immunity from prosecution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2000
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AZZMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESBasu, Kunal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003