Cain, Janan
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text portray children experiencing a range of emotions, including frustration, shyness, jealousy, and pride.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 152.4 CAIChin, Jason
Summary: A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHIChin, Jason
Summary: "What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J531.14 CHIChin, Jason
Summary: Presents a visual tribute to the evolving terrain and animals of the Galapagos that traces the island's fiery origins, its rise and decline as an environment, and the emergence of life on new islands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIE RATED PG-13Adler, Malka
Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADLGeller, Tamar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 GelJanine
Contents: Let It Run (4:04) -- Dark Mind (4:16) -- Hold Me (3:35) -- Little Bit (3:55) -- Bullets (3:37) -- Hold Me (feat. Pusha T) (4:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Mixtape Records/Atlantic 2014
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Cain, Sheridan.
Summary: Following the advice of other creatures, a mother mouse moves her sleepy young son from one bed to another until she realizes she has known the right spot for him all along.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC CAICain, Susan
Summary: With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.2 CAICain, Susan
Summary: "With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 155.2 CAICain, Susan.
Summary: This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.2 CAIBain, Donald
Summary: Television's beloved sleuth Jessica Fletcher is back in her twenty-ninth adventure. Cabot Cove, Maine, annually hosts an elaborate Fourth of July celebration, and this year is no exception. Between historical reenactments, parade floats, and the fireworks show, the community is abuzz with activity. No one is more enthusiastic than the town's newest resident, corporate mogul Joseph Lennon. His...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Cain, Jonathan
Summary: From One of the Greatest Bands in History Comes a Reminder to Never Give Up Hope. In this long-awaited memoir, complete with color photographs, songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain takes us on an odyssey from center stage with Journey when all America was listening to songs like "Don't Stop Believin', "Faithfully," and "Open Arms," to his hope and faith today. He tells of the thrilling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CAIN CAICain, Susan.
Summary: This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2012
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Kramer, Jana.
Contents: Good Time Comin' On (3:24) -- I Hope It Rains (3:05) -- Why Ya Wanna (3:41) -- Goodbye California (3:57) -- Whiskey (3:35) -- Over You By Now (3:57) -- One Of The Boys (2:48) -- What I Love About Your Love (2:57) -- When You're Lonely (3:31) -- King Of Apology (2:48) -- Good As You Were Bad (3:37) -- I Won't Give Up (3:18).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Nashville 2012
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Vamps (Musical group : Japan)
Contents: Reincarnation (1:34) -- Zero (3:33) -- Lips (4:07) -- World's End (4:12) -- Evil (3:25) -- Ghost (4:49) -- Vampire's Love (4:50) -- Damned (4:22) -- Get Away (4:20) -- Replay (4:12) -- Bloodsuckers (1:26) -- The Jolly Roger (4:41) -- Inside Myself (4:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delicious Deli Records 2015
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Arden, Jann
Contents: Comin' 'Round For Us (4:38) -- You Love Me Back (5:18) -- Counting Mercies (5:12) -- You Forgot You Loved Me (3:22) -- Hard To Be Alive (3:23) -- I Am A Town (4:38) -- Karolina (3:42) -- You Were Never Broken (3:45) -- What About Me? (4:06) -- I Ain't Sinkin' Yet (5:19) -- Everything Almost (2:58) -- You Love Me Back (Demo Acoustic Mix/Bonus Track) (3:38) -- Falling Over (3:56) -- Hotel Linen...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Canada 2014
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Arden, Jann.
Summary: Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene--always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more--to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood, her bond with family, her struggle in the formative years and what keeps her so grounded in the whirlwind...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Canada 2011
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Bain, Donald
Summary: If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRUBain, Donald
Summary: Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, ends up involved in a murder mystery up north in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica Fletcher has booked a one-week cruise through Alaska in order to enjoy some solitude. Her plans are thwarted when Kathy Randall asks to accompany her. Kathy's sister, Wilimena, recently disappeared from the same cruise ship that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Caine, Rachel.
Summary: A new chapter in the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires saga. Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends. And with that mix...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Nelson, Jandy.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life—and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Scott, Janny.
Summary: A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011