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Summary: Franklin is afraid of thunderstorms. When a storm approaches while he is playing at Fox's house, a flash of lightning sends Franklin into his shell. He refuses to come out -- even for snacks -- until his friends make him laugh with their tall tales about what causes storms. And when Beaver explains what really causes thunder and lightning, Franklin begins to feel much safer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOUBourgeois, Paulette.
Summary: "Determined to ride his bike without training wheels, Franklin cannot understand why it seems so easy for his friends - and why it is so hard for him"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHOMartel, Yann
Summary: Patel Pi is a young man living in India, his father is the owner and manager of the zoo in the city but decided to emigrate to Canada and seek a better life through the sale of animals. After complex procedures, the family begins a journey Patel that is cut short by tragedy: a terrible storm wrecks the ship they are traveling on. Pi will have to use his talents to survive while he also deals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Destino, 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH MARReyes, Ana
Summary: "Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd started spending time with that summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: Franklin and his family establish a new Thanksgiving tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2001
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E BouKann, Victoria
Summary: Pinkalicious throws a tea party to celebrate her crowning of Goldie as Princess Goldilicious, but when Peter has ideas of his own, the perfect party could be in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 360 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KANKann, Victoria.
Summary: Everyone in Pinkalicious' class is assigned one friend they must make a secret, extra-special card for on Valentine's Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KANMann, George
Summary: Jedha. The worn streets of this ancient world serve as a confluence for the galaxy. Visited by all, yet owned by none. Here, the Jedi are but one creed among many worshipping and studying the Force. From the Guardians of the Whills to the Path of the Open Hand, countless beings come to learn, and to share, in peace. As all of Jedha prepares for its Festival of Balance, the galaxy still reels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMann, George
Summary: "One year after the tragic events of The Fallen Star, the Jedi fight to break the Nihil's control over the galaxy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMann, Kyle
Summary: "Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother's death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch's shoddily installed video projector falls on his head--sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. After a narrow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCleeves, Ann
Summary: "The shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence as Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady? Arriving at the scene, DI Vera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLEPacker, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Packer 2011Patchett, Ann
Summary: "One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patchett 2016Stamos, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAKann, Victoria.
Summary: Anticipating the arrival of flower-tending fairies in the springtime, Pinkalicious tours her family's garden, prepares a cozy fairy-sized house, and wonders if she will be able to see her tiny visitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's 2013
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Summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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Summary: "On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cleeves 2020Ripley, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIPAguirre, Ann
Summary: "Clementine Waterhouse is a perfectly logical witch. She doesn't tumble headlong into love. Rather she weighs the pros and cons and decides if a relationship is worth pursuing. At least that's always been her modus operandi before. Clem prefers being the one in charge, always the first to walk away when the time is right. Attraction has never struck her like lightning. Until the witch hunter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGUBrashares, Ann.
Summary: As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRAFraistat, Ann
Summary: The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRALeckie, Ann
Summary: Qven was created to be a Presgr translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presgr and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something different isn't "optimal behavior". It's the type of behavior that will have you eliminated. But Qven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECLeckie, Ann.
Summary: "What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014