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Summary: "My name is Mike Ross. I'm a Ferryman. I help people with ghost problems, or ghosts with people problems. Funny thing, no one ever helps me with my problems. It turns out the dead still hold a good deal of influence over the world, and they don't want to give it up. I'm in way over my head. Fortunately, I'm too stubborn to quit."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springbrook Digital Publishing 2010
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Bernheimer, Kate.
Summary: Children come to visit a little girl who lives all alone inside a castle that is housed inside of a museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERJimi.
Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIASummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOULiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUSherman, Bim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHEJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOLee, J.M.
Summary: "An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. The enigmatic Gilmo used to have a quiet life back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEJio, Sarah.
Summary: "Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: In a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOMai, Jia
Summary: "One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIRim, Sujean
Summary: Bob the bird keeps trying to fly, but is beginning to worry that he will never succeed when Crow comes by with a suggestion to "just breathe."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMRim, Sujean
Summary: "What do the animals at the zoo do when the gates close at night? They boogie until dawn!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RIMRim, Sujean
Summary: "Chee-Kee, a young panda, moves with his parents to a new land of opportunity. Just when he's resigned to never fit in, Chee-Kee finds a way to use his own experience and ingenuity to save the day and show that he's one of a kind in all the best ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMSummary: When André suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The story follows the Wu family as they adjust to life in America after severing their ties with China after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Though their future seems secure, things aren't as simple as they appear. As much of the family slowly adjusts to American life, the father, Nan is disillusioned and finds it hard to totally break with his homeland despite his violent disagreement with its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINLiu, Jia
Summary: "When Merlin the owl tries to make a friend, it takes a little more practice than he expected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUXiaojing, Jin
Summary: A child asks different family members about her late grandfather and learns of his characteristics through the features he passed down to his children and grandchildren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE XIAJin, Ha
Summary: A collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JINJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOJio, Sarah
Summary: "Set amidst the Seattle music scene of the 90s as well as the present day, Always parallels the past and present in a unique love story about a woman who discovers what she's willing to save and what she will sacrifice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIOJio, Sarah.
Summary: Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but little suspects that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOSummary: Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014