Werlin, Nancy
Summary: Planning is Zoe Rosenthal's superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn't sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to "save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WERO'Connor, Jane.
Summary: On her mother's birthday, Nancy gives her a total beauty makeover in the yard outside, which she has converted into a fancy salon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OCONargi, Lela.
Summary: Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NARGrant, Shauntay
Summary: "This joyful, inspiring and powerful love letter to hair wrapping ties together past and present as it recognizes and demonstrates how knowledge is passed through generations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE GRAHarper, Janelle
Summary: "A picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARAlsdurf, Phyllis
Summary: "The apples are ready for harvest and Halloween is here! What better way to celebrate than by donning homemade costumes and going to the local apple orchard? In this charming story, a boy and his family enjoy everything the orchard has to offer, including searching for scarecrows, getting lost in a corn maze, and going on a hayride."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2023
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE ALSShriver, Lionel
Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: Mad genius Doctor BetterThan is out to finish what the Genetic Wars started-- destroy the world. With his unique time-looping abilities, he has all the do-overs he needs to thrash pesky superheroes-- mere gnats as far as he's concerned-- intent on thwarting him. But on the cusp of victory, she comes along-- fellow mad genius Merry Lynn Monroe. Sparks fly as she and her cybernetic ladymatoms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jambor 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERZub, Jim
Summary: A steampunk fantasy story exploring the origin of the inventor known as Dreamfinder, and how one little spark of inspiration created a dragon called Figment. Based on the Epcot attraction Journey Into Imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUBFeinberg, Leslie
Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993
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Summary: A steampunk fantasy story exploring the origin of the inventor known as Dreamfinder, and how one little spark of inspiration created a dragon called Figment. Based on the Epcot attraction Journey Into Imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUBGarvin, Eileen
Summary: "Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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Summary: A girl's friendship with an older neighbor stands at the center of this multifaceted meditation on aging, art, love, and affection.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A steampunk fantasy story exploring the origin of the inventor known as Dreamfinder, and how one little spark of inspiration created a dragon called Figment. Based on the Epcot attraction Journey Into Imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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Summary: A steampunk fantasy story exploring the origin of the inventor known as Dreamfinder, and how one little spark of inspiration created a dragon called Figment. Based on the Epcot attraction Journey Into Imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUBO'Neal, Barbara
Summary: "Popular blogger and foodie queen Lavender Wills reigns over Lavender Honey Farms, a serene slice of organic heaven nestled in Oregon wine country. Lavender is determined to keep her legacy from falling into the profit-driven hands of uncaring relatives, and she wants an heir to sustain her life's work after she's gone. So she invites her three closest online friends--fellow food bloggers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONEWientge, Kristi
Summary: Twelve-year-old Flor faces problems at home while spending a summer working at her parents' store, partnering with former friend Candice for a pageant, and volunteering with a reclusive beekeeper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIEAnderson-Dargatz, Gail
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDHart, Ellen
Summary: Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband's murder. Four years later, Rashad's brother contacts Ray Lawless--Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless's father and the original defense attorney on the case --with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction. When the case is reopened, Jane and her father must work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBoelts, Maribeth
Summary: Kaia, the daughter of a beekeeper, faces her fear of bees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life - living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher - was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's beekeeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book--star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won't change her. Yet Alex is seduced by the firm's money and energy ... and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATSycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
Summary: "Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart-it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018