Arnaldo, Monica
Summary: When a kindergarten class arrives for the first day at school, they are greeted only by the words "Mr. S" on the chalkboard and a delicious-looking sandwich, resulting in merry mayhem as the kids wonder if the sandwich is their teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ARNÓlafur Arnalds
Contents: Verses (4:03) -- Piano Sonata No.3: Largo (9:17) -- Nocturne in C Sharp Minor (4:24) -- Reminiscence (4:28) -- Nocturne in G Minor (3:01) -- Eyes Shut - Nocturne in C Minor (6:41) -- Written In Stone (3:27) -- Letters Of A Traveller (4:17) -- Prľude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop") (5:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Classics 2015
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Mancillas, Mónica
Summary: Mariana is visiting her abuelita and extended family in Mexico for the first time. Her tummy does a flip as she and Mami cross the frontera. There are all new sights, smells, and sounds. And at Abuelita's house, Mariana is overwhelmed by new faces and Spanish phrases she doesn't understand. But with a story, some kindness, and a few new words from Abuelita, Mariana discovers that the love of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MANCarnesi, Mônica.
Summary: "Beatrice the bunny wants to share winter with her best friend, Bear, but he will be busy hibernating"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CARArnade, Chris
Summary: "Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.509 ARNGarrett, LaMonica
Summary: A prison warden sees a series of executions put a strain on her marriage, career, and convictions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CLEMofina, Rick.
Summary: Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes—one, an off-duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers. FBI agent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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McTier, Moiya
Summary: "After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and of hearing its own story told by others, the Milky Way would like a chance to speak for itself. All one hundred billion stars and fifty undecillion tons of gas of it. It all began some thirteen billion years ago, when clouds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 523.1 MCTHesse, Monica
Summary: "Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESBrown, Monica
Summary: As a boy, Gabito had the ability to imagine many things. He lived in a small house with a large family. He would grow up to become a writer known as Gabriel Garća Márquez.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rising Moon 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MARQUEZ BROPerez, Monica.
Summary: "Curious George wants to ride a roller coaster more than anything"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REY (purple)Roe, Monica
Summary: Twelve-year-old Coral is excited to be going on an October elk hunt with her father in the Colorado mountains, but when he announces that he is getting remarried she is upset and angry with him--but when a big storm rolls in and her father is injured by his skittish horse she has to put aside her feelings and fears and concentrate on making it down the mountain safely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ROEWellington, Monica.
Summary: Annie the apple farmer saves her most beautiful apples to sell fresh at the farmers' market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 WELWood, Monica.
Summary: After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOAli, Monica
Summary: "Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALIWellington, Monica.
Summary: Suzette sells a variety of her crepes, or French pancakes, from the street cart she takes all over Paris. Includes a recipe, a short glossary of French words used, brief notes on Paris sites, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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Summary: 1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father's wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Arnaldur Indridason
Summary: "A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Juniper travels to Alaska to take part in a bowhunt in the Tongass National Forest, and when she ends up on the hunt with local boy Ben they both have to learn to work together and respect each other's skills if they want to succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ROESweeney, Monica
Summary: When best friends Sun and Clouds clash and refuse to share the sky, Earth's colors are threatened until crayons create the biggest rainbow they can.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SWEWesolowska, Monica
Summary: Shortly after his birth, Elbert floats into the air and as he grows, everyone tries to ground him, except for his mother, who encourages Elbert to be himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WESMoning, Karen Marie.
Summary: The first entry in a new urban paranormal trilogy finds Dani O'Malley using rare talents and the powerful Sword of Light to survive Dark Fae attacks in Dublin, where she is also challenged by a murderous former friend and a police force head who covets her sword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMujica, Barbara Louise
Summary: 1910, Mexico. As the country's revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable life in Durango or risk death. Her family settles in Mexico City, where, at sixteen, she marries the worldly Jaime del Rio. But in a twist of fate, at a party she meets an influential American director who recognizes in her a natural performer. He invites her to Hollywood, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grayden House 2022