Summary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: When Charlie is, diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, the prognosis is good. However, when Charlie spurns chemotherapy in favor of a more natural, alternative treatment. His friends take drastic action.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ILLChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAStanton, Tom
Summary: Chronicles the relationship between American baseball legends and archrivals Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth against the backdrop of a little-known series of charity golf matches called "The Has-Beens Golf Championship" in 1941.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Team Stanton 2007Watson, Tom
Summary: Simon always has a lot to say. And sometimes he can't stop talking, even in the middle of class. When Simon gets in trouble for jabbering at school, his best friends, Molly and Rosie, think up a plan to keep him from getting grounded at home! It involves cars, suds, and pink plastic flamingos! But will their big plan turn into an even bigger disaster?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Chapters, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WATAngleberger, Tom
Summary: Three friends spend Christmas day breaking into the town of Crickenburg's antiquated sewage treatment plant in order to witness with their own eyes the soon-to-be-replaced "poop fountain."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams] 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ANGFletcher, Tom
Summary: Encourages the reader to shake, tilt, and wiggle the book in an effort to launch the alien back into space, because aliens do not belong on Earth--or maybe they do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLEFrazee, Tom
Summary: It's time for the biggest event in Rickson County: the debutante ball at Grandma's. Every year, people far and wide come together to celebrate the coming-of-age of local girls, and this year, Elise Kelley is one of them. For Elise's little sister Katy, however, the night promises a different kind of excitement. While their older sisters enjoy the dance, Katy and her friends find adventures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Books Kids 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAWatson, Tom
Summary: Stick Dog and his feral friends are looking for relief on a very hot day--and this time they have their eyes on an ice cream truck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WATWatson, Tom
Summary: It's a big day in the big city for Stick Cat and his best friend, Edith. There are treasures to hunt, songs to sing, pigeons to catch, and naps to take. But way up on the twenty-third floor, danger lurks just around the corner. Terrible noises and violent crashes trap a desperate man in the building across the alley. Stick Cat will need to navigate his way across the alley and around Edith's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION WATGreenwald, Tom
Summary: Bored by the lack of crime in Quietville lately, Jimmy's vampire dog, Abby, has chewed up his mother's entire shoe collection, and so his parents have insisted in enrolling Abby in obedience training, and the longer it goes on the more "normal" (and boring) she becomes--but when mysterious things start happening to Jimmy's lacrosse team, he and his friends (the Crimebiters) realize they need to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREWatson, Tom
Summary: The weather outside is frightful! The temperature is dropping fast, and Rosie, Molly, and Simon are determined to come up with a way to keep their feet from freezing off on their walk to school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WATWatson, Tom
Summary: Stick Dog, Mutt, and the rest of the tidbit-snatching gang cross Picasso Park to the site of a brand-new restuarant where they sample mouthwatering sushi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Stranded on a planet filled with dry cleaners, nail salons, and chain restaurants, Rocket and Groot face killer robots bent on customer service and raccoon-eating toilets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANGSummary: It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRASummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUEBrafman, Ori.
Summary: A psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever activity or situation we're involved in. These kinds of peak experiences, when our senses are completely focused on the moment, are something that individuals--and companies--strive to achieve.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation BrafmanSummary: When Sarah starts a job in a nursing home, to her surprise she is really good at it. She's a natural with the residents, and begins to form a special bond with Tony, a younger resident who has early onset dementia. The home is chronically underfunded and when the Covid pandemic hits, it suffers from understaffing, sickness and heart-breaking losses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Bo Davis, a sheepdog puppy, gets help from his farm friends when he has trouble herding sheep and climbing on rocks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: When E.T.: The Musical closes, Nate reluctantly returns home to begin high school and, with his best friend, Libby, makes a project of turning Dickens' Great Expectations into a musical.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FEDSummary: After SpongeBob's beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to The Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2021
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SPOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPOSummary: Andy is 17 years old and headed off to college, meaning he doesn't have a place in his life for childhood things. The toys (save for Woody), fearing they'll be packed away in the attic and forgotten about forever, are mistakenly donated to the local daycare facility. There, their wishes to be played with once again are fulfilled all too well. They also meet a new collection of toys, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOY RATED GSummary: It's 1956 -- a year since Amanda left Grantchester, and the post-war rulebook is being torn up. Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is feeling adrift, a man without a cause -- until American civil rights activist Violet Todd arrives and fires up his need for social justice. But with a cause this dangerous, Sidney might not be around forever. Soon there's a new Vicar of Grantchester, firebrand Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Grantchester 2019Summary: An astonishing world where toys play while their owners are away. Woody is a pull-string cowboy doll and is the leader of the toys until the latest, greatest action figure, Buzz Lightyear, enters the picture. When the toy rivals are separated from their owner, they learn to put aside their differences and work as a team to get back home to the boy they love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010