Allyn, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLRankin, Ellan
Summary: Inspired by a true story, a remarkable friendship between a baby elephant and her keeper shows that kindness is never forgotten. Includes a note about the zookeeper named Denise Weston Austin who protected the baby Asian elephant named Sheila during World War II in Belfast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RANAllin, Lou
Summary: A drifter takes a job at a hunting lodge in Northern Ontario, with the expectation of a big payday for the summer's work. But when the eccentric owner decides to renege on her promises, she ends up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRAllyn, Douglas.
Summary: After a stint in jail which cost him his wife and career, Dr. David Westbrook takes his battered jeep, a one-eyed cat, and his troubled past to northern Michigan to start over in a clinic where he can heal injured animals, and maybe himself, at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALLAllyn, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAlyan, Hala
Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYAlyan, Hala
Summary: "From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: "A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Indian "squaw" who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former step-son - Callan Wink's characters are often confronted with predicaments few of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINAllin, Lou
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllin, Lou
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLRogers, Morgan Callan.
Summary: "A captivating debut introducing a spirited young heroine coming of age in coastal Maine during the early 1960s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROGSummary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwAdams, Alane
Summary: As Abigail enters her second year at Tarkana Witch Academy, she and her friend Hugo are swept into a puzzling mystery involving an Orkadian warship and a powerful missing item.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Adams 2019Alten, Steve.
Summary: Joining a scientific team originally scheduled to travel to one of Jupiter's moons, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun is put into hibernation against his will and awakens on a hostile Earth where he must defeat a technological adversary of his own making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTAlwani, Sami
Summary: "In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani weaves together themes of art induced dissociation, queer intergenerational polyamory, racial capitalism and esoteric mystical experiences into 20 slice of life comic stories that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. These stories question society and individual identity. A talking baby philosophizes away his own emotions. A half-man, half-dog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALWAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLCarlan, Audrey
Summary: Unwilling escort Mia Saunders’s journey continues in the second anthology of the Calendar Girl series! In the next three months, Mia heads to Boston, Oahu, and Washington DC. In April, she poses as girlfriend to philandering Mason Murphy, a professional baseball player who needs a better image, only to find he’s not at all what she expected. May finds Mia turning up the heat with Samoan model...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterhouse Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLBache, Ellyn.
Summary: Paisley Lamm's terminal cancer helps her and her four friends suddenly appreciate their memorable life experiences, their own families and their lifestyles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACAkpan, Uwem
Summary: "A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKPAlbin, Gennifer.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys is called upon to harness her power in a battle for control of Earth, but as she uncovers the truth about her own history she learns that everyone holds secrets, some of which may drive her from her love, Jost, into his brother Erik's arms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013