Polak, Monique.
Summary: Anneke, a Dutch Jewish teenager, is sent with her family to Theresienstadt, a "model" concentration camp, where she confronts great evil and learns to do what it takes to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLPonti, Monique
Summary: Zoé est une grenouille qui vit très heureuse sur la lune où elle habite. Elle sait même faire des choses extraordinaires. Comme, par exemple, des sauts et des pirouettes incroyables. Mais voilà, il y a quelque chose de très difficile pour elle. Quelque chose qui lui donne beaucoup de mal : elle n'arrive pas à s'endormir le soir. Heureusement, elle a une bonne idée...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard-Jeunesse 2012
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Summary: "The Mermaid of Black Conch spins the enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROFCouvson, Monique
Summary: Follows the story of Charisma, a Black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school, and when frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that could change her future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 COUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COUYanique, Tiphanie.
Summary: " A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANTruong, Monique T. D.
Summary: Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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Summary: "This novel maps the romantic history and emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. Monster in the Middle moves from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, to show how one couple's romance is influenced by the family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANBraffet, Kelly
Summary: Twenty-something drifter Miranda crashes her car late at night on a lonely highway and is picked up by a passing stranger who soon reveals himself to be more sinister than at first glance. No one knows Miranda is missing: her father died in a plane crash over Central America and her estranged mother, Anne, sought comfort in a New Age lifestyle in the Arizona desert. When Anne reaches out to her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2011
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Summary: While a convenience-store clerk navigates the pitfalls of his father's imprisonment and the baffling attentions of two young women, a high school freshman endures her parents' fundamentalism and cruel classmates by joining a circle of dark misfits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAGray Smith, Monique
Summary: In this heartwarming story with vibrant artwork, Molly takes readers to the intertribal community center where she introduces the people she knows and loves, sharing how each person makes her feel--and reminding us that love is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRABuffett, Jimmy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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Summary: Moving their beloved pet pig from their Tennessee hometown to their new home in a posh no-pets-allowed New York City hotel, southern belle Ellie McBride and her twin children struggle to hide the swine from the hotel staff.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUFBuchet, Nelly
Summary: When Dog is handed a strawberry from the fruit bowl, she sizes it up, dances around it, and decides she is going to race the Strawberry--and win.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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Summary: Diverse families and friends help to hold one another up by being kind, sharing, learning, playing, laughing, and doing other supportive things together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRAGray Smith, Monique
Summary: "This beautiful picture book looks at how the simple act of being kind, to others and oneself, affects all aspects of a child's life."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRAJames-Duncan, Monique
Summary: Following a day in the life of two rambunctious children and their mom, this warm, revealing picture book builds a bridge of empathy between parent and child and celebrates the value of "Mommy Time."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAMTruong, Monique T. D.
Summary: When a personal tragedy compels a young woman to return to Boiling Springs, North Carolina, she gets to know a mother she never knew and uncovers a startling story of a life, a family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUTruong, Monique T. D.
Summary: Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: "A story of a blended family-- from the pets' point of view!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUCGray Smith, Monique
Summary: This dual-language picture book for preschoolers, written in English and Plains Cree, celebrates and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRAGray Smith, Monique
Summary: The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD GRAGray Smith, Monique
Summary: This dual-language picture book for preschoolers, written in English and Plains Cree, celebrates and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRABuffett, Jimmy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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Buffett, Jimmy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008