Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Khadivi, Laleh

Summary: "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA

Lyons, Kelly Starling

Summary: "Ty turns an ordinary day in the sandbox into a fun beach day. He wiggles his toes in the sand, finds seashells, builds a castle, and splashes in the ocean. When his neighbor's beach ball flies into his backyard, Ty learns that a beach day is even better with a friend"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN LYO

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LYO

Keller, Shana

Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KEL

Chandler, Matt

Summary: Quincy is on his first black bear hunting trip in Maine, when he breaks his leg and has to depend on his friends to recover the bear he shot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHA

Driscoll, Sara

Summary: FBI special agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner Hawk head to Virginia Beach to help with search and rescue after a hurricane. They uncover a human trafficking ring run by some of the most powerful and influential powers in Virginia. With the evidence-- and victims-- washed away, Meg joins forces with Special Agent Walter Van Cleave to hide the scared teenage girl who is their only witness....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRI

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017

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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Berenstain, Mike

Summary: Amidst their playtime pretending to be superheroes, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear get to be real life heroes when a young neighbor falls off his bike.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BER

Berenstain, Mike

Summary: "Celebrate Easter with the Berenstain Bears in this new My First I Can Read! It's springtime in Bear Country and the Berenstain Bears are excited to celebrate Easter! Colored eggs, sweet goodies, and beautiful flowers help make the holiday beloved. But when the Easter Bunny fails to deliver eggs on this special day, it's up to the Bears to save the holiday! Beginning readers will enjoy this fun...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JBR GREEN BER

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR GREEN BER

Rockwell, Anne F.

Summary: Describes what happens to a bean as it is soaked, planted, watered, repotted, and eventually produces pods with more beans inside.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1998

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROC

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROC

Minarik, Else Holmelund.

Summary: Little Bear hears about his grandfather's exploits as a sea captain when they are cleaning out the attic together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MIN

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MIN

Tanenbaum, Robert.

Summary: New York District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene, find themselves embroiled in corruption when they set out to bring a group of Brooklyn rapists to justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAN

Berenstain, Mike

Summary: Join Papa, Mama, and the cubs as Gramps introduces them to some of the traditions most associated with St. Patrick's Day, from gathering to enjoy a parade down Main Street to leprechauns and pots of gold.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE BER

Carpenter, Emily

Summary: "Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove's death, Eve has maintained Dove's charitable foundation--and her lies. But just as a documentaryteam wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove's darkest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: Colored illustrations on endpapers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS Chiav

Landis, Jill Marie

Summary: He hired her to find his long-lost daughter, not to fall in love. California private investigator Kat Vargas lives a lonely life of danger with a painful past. Desperate for rest and relaxation, she leaves the city lights of Long Beach to house sit in Twilight Cove, a tiny beach town. Having recently found out about the baby he fathered when he was in high school, Ty Chandler has been eager...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAN