Summary: Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOElbee, Viviane
Summary: Trying to teach your giraffe to ski can be difficult--especially when she only wants to fly down the Big Scary Slope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchSchwartz, Viviane
Summary: Tiny Cat is very confident at counting to four balls of yarn, but when more and more come bouncing into Tiny Cat's life, things get tricky! Of course, Tiny Cat finds the perfect way to settle the matter - sleep on it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHElbee, Viviane
Summary: Daryl does not want to share his favorite dinosaur book, so when it is time to bring it back to the library he uses all his dinosaur skills to get it back until a friendly librarian encourages him to share.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBForrester, Viviane.
Summary: Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA WOOViviano, Frank.
Summary: The author journeys back into his own family's past to investigate the century-old murder of his great-great-grandfather, a revolutionary and legendary bandit known as "the Monk," and the conspiracy of silence that followed the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 VIVSummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHEShotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOChong, Vivian
Summary: "In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHOFrench, Vivian.
Summary: In this deadly funny fourth Tale from the Five Kingdoms, it's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and Total Oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction French 2010Swift, Vivian
Summary: An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SWISwift, Vivian
Summary: Traces an idyllic French honeymoon trip while sharing lighthearted tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, in a book with hundreds of watercolor and line illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 SWITubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: "A fictional account of eleven-year-old Viviani Joffre Fedeler, who was born and raised in the New York Public Library, and her older brothers and best friend Eva, who all try and find out if the library is haunted."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBChang, Vivienne
Summary: Lily is upset when her mother announces the family will be moving back to Taiwan to care for her Ah Ma, but when her mother explains Taiwan is her home, Lily agrees it is her home too.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHASimberg, Vivienne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.822 SimbeDivine, Mark.
Summary: Ex-Navy Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train the mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658.5 DIVBuchan, Vivian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.452 BUCConroy, Vivian
Summary: "The mist-shrouded moors of Devon proffer a trove of delights for two vacationing zoologists--but also conceal a hoard of dark secrets reaching down to the fathomless depths of the ocean.Miss Merula Merriweather barely saved her uncle from the gallows after he was wrongly accused of murder--and now, she's left the bustle of Victorian London to recuperate in the fresh air of Dartmoor with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFoster, Vivian
Summary: Getting frustrated is in many ways a natural part of being human, but you can navigate through the chaos of raising a child without letting it get you all worked up inside. You just need to better understand your own emotions and your own anger. When you can recognize your triggers before they happen (and develop the right techniques to navigate through your emotional storms), this explosion...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Star Spark Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPT 152.47 FOSFrench, Vivian.
Summary: It's a fine day for dwarf watching! At least that's what Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus innocently think as they set out, unaware that Princess Marigold has honed her sights on Marcus and plans to follow him to the ends of the earth — fan, frilly petticoats, and all. As for the dwarves, it's not a fine day at all: they're overworked and underpaid, rushing to produce extra gold to make...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: High above the mountain village of Fracture, trouble is brewing. The sorceress Lady Lamorna wants a skull-studded gown of deep black velvet, but her treasure chest is empty of gold. That doesn't stop her, however, from kidnapping, blackmailing, and using more than a little magic to get what she needs. Will her plans be foiled by the heroic Gracie Gillypot, two chatty bats, a gallant (if...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009