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American wit and humor, Pictorial Breast Cancer Patients Comic books, strips, etc Cartoonists Biography Comic books, strips, etc Clinton, Bill, 1946- Caricatures and cartoons Cooperative societies Fiction Egypt (Me. : Imaginary place) Fiction Presidents United States Election, 1992- Caricatures and cartoons Science fiction Dictionaries United States Politics and government 1989-1993 Caricatures and cartoons Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALChute, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUConte, Cate
Summary: Maddie James has finally given in to her friend Katrina's pleas to open up her cat cafe to more than ten felines: they're now up to fifteen purring friends. In fact, JJ's House of Purrs is making such a splash that she's getting national attention. The East Coast Animal Rescue League is quite interested in the cafe, and so Maddie accepts a request to meet with Jillian Allen, the executive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONOkute
Contents: Caridad -- Quiere la rumba -- Chichiribako -- Gaston's rumba -- Rumbarimbula -- Na na saguey -- Orayakinyongo -- Devuelvame la voz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN OKUChute, Carolyn
Summary: When journalist Ivy Morelli sets out to investigate the mysterious leader of the nearby homeschool, known as "The Prophet," she is drawn into the life of his self-sufficient countercultural community called the Settlement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUChute, Carolyn.
Summary: The school on Heart's Content Road spirals out from the story of Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home by his overwrought half-brother. With the help of his new friend, Rex York, the captain of the local militia, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by a man known to many as 'The Prophet,' the Settlement is a rural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUSummary: Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUMarchetta, Melina.
Summary: From master storyteller Melina Marchetta comes an exhilarating new fantasy springing from her celebrated epic, Finnikin of the Rock. Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home . . . or so he believes. Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been taken roughly and lovingly in hand by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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Marchetta, Melina.
Summary: The climactic conclusion of Printz Award winner Melina Marchetta's epic fantasy trilogy! Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi and his companions travel through Charyn searching for Quintana and building an army that will secure her unborn child's right to rule. While in the valley between two kingdoms, Quintana of Charyn and Isaboe of Lumatere come face-to-face in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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Marchetta, Melina.
Summary: Finnikin was only a child during the five days of the unspeakable, when the royal family of Lumatere were brutally murdered, and an imposter seized the throne. Now a curse binds all who remain inside Lumatere's walls, and those who escaped roam the surrounding lands as exiles, persecuted and despairing, dying by the thousands in fever camps. In a narrative crackling with the tension of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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Marchetta, Melina
Summary: Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMarchetta, Melina.
Summary: MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life. Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2007
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Chute, Hillary L
Summary: "The massive impact that comics have had on our culture becomes more and more clear every day, from the critically acclaimed musical Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking comic, to the dozens of superhero films hitting cinemas every year. What is it that makes comics so special? What can this unique art form do that others can't? In Comics for Grownups, comics scolar Hillary Chute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.59 CHUMarchetta, Camille.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1989
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Summary: Bashir “Bish” Ortley is a London desk cop. Almost over it. Still not dealing with the death of his son years ago, as well as the break-up of his marriage. Across the channel, a summer bus tour, carrying a group of English teenagers is subject to a deadly bomb attack, killing four of the passengers and injuring a handful of others. Bish’s daughter is one of those on board. The suspect is 17...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarchetta, Melina.
Summary: Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca - but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 MARMarlette, Doug
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCrute, Josh
Summary: Sometimes in London it drizzles. Sometimes it mizzles. Other times it pelts and showers and spits. And Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. How can he go about his day as a proper London gentleman when his shoes are soggy, his coat is always collecting puddles, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Fed up with damp and dreary London, Jonas sails far away, to places where the sun always shines. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HANMacchetto, August
Summary: Tiana dreams of opening the finest restaurant in New Orleans, but when she meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, her plans take a detour as a fateful kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISSummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN OKJMarchetto, Marisa Acocella.
Summary: Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her 11-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer--from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. This graphic memoir is a portrait of one woman's supercharged life in Manhattan and a wonderful love story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARMarlette, Doug
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Random House 1993