Browning, James
Summary: "The Fracking King follows Winston Crwth--a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy--who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in politics, and the idea of "winning" a debate as cleanlyand simply as you'd win a Scrabble game can seem impossible. But with the truth on his side, a jar of toxic "frackwater," and the belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFabre, Dominique
Summary: Pierre, a lifelong Parisian waiter, watches people come and go, sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside too much; he prefers to let the world come to him. When the caf goes under, Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thought over three days, Pierre's humanity and profound solitude are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABPinon, Dominique
Summary: In a rickety apartment building, a sweet-natured clown becomes the catalyst in the lives of the unusual tenants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DELDemers, Dominique.
Summary: "Il y a 3500 ans vivait Maïna...". Deux tableaux, dans l'un la vie des Amérindiens, dans l'autre, celles des Inuits. Maïna sert de trait d'union, vivant dans l'un et l'autre une histoire d'amour. L'auteure hésite entre son désir d'informer sur la vie des premiers Québécois et celui de raconter les aventures de son impétueuse héroïne en quête de plénitude. Le texte est documenté certes, mais les...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Québec/Amérique 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448 FIC DEMValente, Dominique
Summary: "Willow Moss's small magic has always seemed unremarkable. But when the most feared witch in the land of Starfell appears on the Moss family's doorstep looking for help, it's not Willow's talented sisters she seeks, it's Willow. Because Willow is a finder of lost things--and Moreg Vaine says that last Tuesday has gone missing. Willow and Moreg set out on a perilous journey across the wilds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VALBrownrigg, Sylvia
Summary: "Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair, chronicled in Brownrigg's earlier novel Pages for You, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love-then left her heartbroken. Having...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROPowning, Beth
Summary: As a new wife living on the Bay of Fundy in the 1860s, Azuba craves a life beyond the tea and sewing circles. When her husband, Nathaniel, allows her to join him abroad, she faces tests that only a woman with a tenacious spirit and boundless fortitude could conquer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWBrownrigg, Sylvia.
Summary: In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen; a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old, new to everything around her...college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life, is shocked by her desire to follow this beauty wherever it will take her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBowling, Dusti
Summary: While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: Eight-year-old Aven Green is despondent when she does not master the piano in one day, but with new inspiration from guitarist Mr. Tom, who is armless like her, along with a special gift from her great-grandma, Aven learns she does not need to be perfect to perform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: After navigating middle school, ninth-grader Aven, born without arms, struggles with the challenges of high school, which test her confidence, strength, and sense of self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWDowning, Michael
Summary: Recently widowed, unhappily stuck on a pricey whiplash tour of Italy, Elizabeth Berman comes face to face with the first documented painting of a teardrop in human history, and in the presence of that tearful mother, and the arresting company of the renowned and anonymous women painted by Giotto in the Arena Chapel, she wakes up to the possibility that she is not lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWErwin, Sherri Browning.
Summary: Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she's meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he's hiding a violent werewolf in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERWBowling, Dusti
Summary: Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month. But when her teacher's lunch bag is taken and Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing, can this perceptive detective crack two cases at the same time?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: "Aven knows she's an expert baker of cakes and cookies since she's been baking with her mom for a really long time. Plus no one bakes quite like she does. She cracks eggs with her feet and measures sugar and flour with her feet (plus measuring cups), since she was born without arms. And now Aven has her eye on the prize: a beautiful blue ribbon for baking at the county fair. So she teams up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR RED BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: "Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue--but in return she has to give Bo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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Summary: "Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the "arm" cells went to her super-powered brain instead. (That's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: When a boy with a terrible secret moves to town there is a sudden increase in dust storms, and asthmatic Avalyn theorizes the storms are linked to his emotions and tries to help as she struggles to breathe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOWDowning, David
Summary: "Los Angeles, 1953. It has been five years since British journalist John Russell struck a deal with a high-ranking Soviet official, relieving Russell of his duty as double-agent for Soviet and American intelligence. Now Russell lives a life of relative comfort in Los Angeles alongside his wife, Effi, a star on an American sitcom, and their adopted daughter, Rosa, a young artist on the cusp of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Summary: In rhyming text, the animals of the forest wake up with the Sun, and go about their lives until night comes, and the Moon returns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024
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Summary: The story of the Shakers, a religious sect in New England whose members believed in Christ's second coming. It is presented in the form of stories which a father tells his son, the father having spent years photographing the surviving members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowning, Samantha
Summary: "In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020