Summary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her whenshe was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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Summary: After Paheli escapes a terrible fate, a magical boy gives her access to the Between, allowing her to collect other women of color, hurt by men, and lead them when the boy is in peril. Paheli was once betrayed by her mother and sold to a man in exchange for a favor. When Paheli escapes, she runs headlong into a boy with stars in his eyes. This boy, as battered as she is, tosses Paheli a box of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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Summary: Croi is compelled by a summoning spell leave her home in the Wilde Forest and travel into the Otherworld, where the enchantment that made her into a brownie begins to break, revealing her true identity, her hidden magick, and her forgotten heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AZAMahdavi, Azam
Summary: "After a young girl's mother dies, Empty appears and silently takes up the big blank space left behind. For some time, the girl can't connect with her dad or any friends, and Empty is her closest companion. But then, a happy reminder of her mom pops up one day, and this bit of joy helps the little girl open up to the world around her. Empty stays around, but the little girl starts to connect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2023
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Summary: When various forest animals discover a mysterious object in the woods, they each use it for a different purpose, until a boy reads stories aloud from it, much to the animals' delight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Gore 2010Gore, Leonid.
Summary: At his drawing table on a rainy day, a boy imagines all the ways in which different things might grow up, and comes to the conclusion that he will grow up to be just like his dad. On die-cut pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE GORSummary: "From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: When upper case letters disappear from Capital City, Question Mark calls on Private I to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAZLazar, Zachary
Summary: "Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York ... He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods ... In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAZGore, Leonid.
Summary: Easy-to-read text and die-cut illustrations allow various creatures to reveal what they like to eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYLazar, Alexandra
Summary: Princess Jasmine is determined to learn more about the world outside the palace where she lives, and even after her efforts almost end in disaster, she keeps trying to find out more about the kingdom she will one day rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAZLazar, Tara
Summary: When 7 is accused of eating 9, worried 6 hires a detective to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2017
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Summary: Excitement is spreading through the halls of Dash Candoo's school. The Face-Pulling Championships are about to begin, featuring students holding their faces in such positions as the Vibrating Jaw-Drop with Eye-Roll and the Dripping Stare of Death. Dash and his classmates have been getting ready for this day for ages. But then, suddenly, right before the championship, blue spots appear on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: Flat Cat likes being flat -- roaming anywhere and happy to be unseen -- until one day when he becomes fluffy, he learns to enjoy the attention it brings, and grows to love being seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2023
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Summary: Dash Candoo's Monday is filled with adventure--during breakfast battling scallywags and the Devil Cat and then at school, confronted with Total Mayhem Situations involving an assortment of missing objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages! It's the most amazing day on earth: the first day of school! It can be a daunting prospect, but don't worry - your big brother can show you the ropes. Join a nervous boy and his enthusiastic older brother as they navigate the highs and lows of a first day at school . . . except this school is a big top, and the teacher is named Miss Stupendous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2019
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Summary: Little Red is an excellent ice skater, but she will need a good partner for the skating pairs competition and the only one available is a certain Wolf, who needs new skates as badly as Little Red does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared for the sheep, reading them a plethora of books every night. The daily exposure to literature has made them far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep. Led by Miss Maple, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press 2007
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Summary: "Dash and his friends Rob and Greta are used to unusual things happening at their school, Swedhump Elementary. But even they pay attention when their invisible principal, Mrs. Rosebank, announces that they have a special guest: Ms. Aqualine, the owner of the new Aqualina Water Park. Most elementary students don't get to spend time on waterslides during the school day. But soon Dash, Rob, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: Dash Candoo is used to really strange, mysterious things happening at his school. But now, really, really, really strange and mysterious things are happening. Dash starts to wonder what's going on when mysterious tire marks and strange sounds start coming from Moremi Forest, next to Swedhump Elementary. When he and his friend Rob go to investigate, they can't work out what's going on. All they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021