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Summary: Neither Malena nor Ruby expected to be leaders of their high school's dress code rebellion. Meanwhile, the girls have to face their own insecurities and biases, as well as the ups and downs of their newfound friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 DOLMarra, Anthony
Summary: After America's entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father's past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: When Pete the dog, who has an insatiable appetite, arrives at school he and his owner are sent to the principal's office, where he devours a set of encyclopedias and is suddenly able to speak and answer any question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KALKalman, Maira.
Summary: In this alphabet book, a child relates some of the unusual things eaten by Pete the dog, including an accordion, a lucky quarter, and cousin Rocky's underpants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KalmaMayr, Diane.
Summary: Littlebat loves to listen to the stories being told below the attic where he sleeps, but he has to wait until just the right time to get close enough to hear them better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE MAYJortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORCalvino, Italo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALRoosevelt, Maura
Summary: The Whitbys: a dynasty akin to the Astors, once enormously wealthy real-estate magnates who were considered "the landlords of New York." There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the longtime family lawyer to his clan of children (from four separate marriages) and the news...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOCalvino, Italo.
Summary: In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
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Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICSummary: Will spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates, unborn souls, arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NINMarra, Anthony
Summary: "When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarra, Anthony.
Summary: In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarra, Anthony.
Summary: A collection of interwoven tales explores themes of family, sacrifice, war, and the redemptive power of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARAlwani, 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 ALWSummary: Lula knows she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend, Sailor, no matter how many times her mama tried to kill him. But when she and Sailor hit the road to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving humanity's future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TRACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrCheeks, Maura
Summary: "In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWeiler, Maura
Summary: Learning that she has a long-lost twin sister who shares their father's artistic ability, Dorie goes undercover as a fellow nun in order to introduce her holy sister's works to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infinite Words 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICalvino, Italo.
Summary: Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
Contents: Under the jaguar sun -- A king listens -- The name, the nose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALGinsburg, Mirra.
Summary: Every night the sun goes to the house of his grandma, the deep blue sky, is tucked in bed by his grandpa, the wind, and is awakened the following day by the morning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1981