Chau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHACheek, Chip
Summary: "It's 1957, and Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It's September, though, and the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. There's Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHECheek, Chip
Summary: "Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESummary: "By the early-1970s, Chang Cheh was already Shaw Brothers' most prolific and well-known director with a plethora of box office hits (including the One-Armed Swordsman franchise) to his name and renowned for discovering the hottest young talents to star in his films. Three of those stars - David Chiang, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng - all feature in Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple, two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHASummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMWilliamson, Chet.
Summary: The story centers around a renovated theater in Pennsylvania and is arranged in three acts, plus overture and curtain call. The tension in Act I heightens as the reader must decide if this is a murder mystery, psychodrama, horror or fantasy, with the author offering clues to support each possibility. Theaters have a history of ghosts and accidents, but as the number of deaths at the Venetian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Chew, Ruth.
Summary: When Nora and Tad observe a squirrel reading a little newspaper and their dog behaving strangely, they decide their new neighbor is a witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHESummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINBurningham, John.
Summary: A little girl and her grandfather share very special moments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BURChee, Alexander
Summary: Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEChee, Traci
Summary: In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper's daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEBurningham, John
Summary: When Boy and Girl go out for a picnic, they meet Sheep, Pig, and Duck and invite them along, but the group loses several things before they can sit down to eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BURBurningham, John.
Summary: Every night Marie-Elaine's cat, Malcolm, goes out, and every morning he comes back in and sleeps. "Where do cats go at night?" the girl wonders. So when she sees him at his cat door dressed to the nines, she begs to come along. And amazingly, Malcolm agrees, as long as she puts on her fancy clothes, gets small, and keeps it all a secret. With a whimsical story and breathtaking artwork, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BURChef AJ
Summary: Plant-based diet expert Chef AJ provides you with not only tips and techniques to begin your weight-loss journey but also the secrets to tasty homemade dishes that will fill you up without adding on the pounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Hail to the Kale Publishing] 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 CHEWilliamson, Chet.
Summary: In Merridale, semi-transparent blue ghosts are appearing. The town's dead are reappearing, frozen in their final moments of life for all to see, and none to ignore. The ghosts aren't the real story here, though - it's those who are still alive. Faced with the deaths and tragedies of their loved ones, and enemies, can Merridale's sanity survive? A classic novel of horror.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Williamson, Chet.
Summary: Three men are offered a million dollars each if they will spend a month in an isolated Pennsylvania mansion, The Pines. There they will confront madness, murder, and the ultimate evil – so that their billionaire host might find the key to life beyond the grave. But as they learn, dead souls dwell in The Pines. And death is just the beginning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Chew, Ruth.
Summary: "Jen Mace and her new friend Mike Stewart find magical adventures in Prospect Park"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Station Hill/Barrytown,b 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUNCunningham, Scott.
Summary: Adrift in the Sea of Japan, Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc. battle a flying beast from Japanese myth. Plus, things really steam up when a demon haunts a spa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2010
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Summary: Shaggy and Scooby-Doo become lost in the Himalaya Mountains where they encounter the mysterious Yeti.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Graphic ScoRaymo, Chet.
Summary: Joining the ranks of such contemporary classics as Christy Brown's My Left Foot and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, this mesmerizing story by a Boston Globe columnist tells of an Irish dwarf whose search for beauty leads him on an adventure-filled odyssey of self-discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAYWilliamson, Chet.
Summary: Jesse Gordon, driven to a shocking murder by the killing of his wife and infant daughter, condemns himself to life underground in the New York City subway system. Abandoning the light of day, he finds an evil as old as time, and a redemption which must be bought by a price far greater than death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010