Gauld, Tom.
Summary: "Dryly hilarious, the comics in You're all just jealous of my jetpack perfectly distill cartoonist Tom Gauld's dark humour, impeccable timing, and distinctinve style, all of which have made his work a popular weekly feature in The Guardian. Unexpected pairings such as the Brontë sisters and video games cross the classic with the contemporary. Gauld gleefully pokes fun at the canon of great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAUDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAODaoud, Hassan
Summary: "The Penguin" is a physically deformed young man who lives with his aging mother and father in one of the "temporary" buildings. His father spends his days on the balcony of their apartment, looking at the far-off city and pining for his lost way of life. Mother and father both find their purpose each day in worrying about the future for their son, while he spends his time in an erotic fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOGauld, Tom
Summary: When a wooden robot prince forgets to say the magic words that turn his sister from a log into a princess she is thrown away, so he goes on an epic journey to find her and bring her back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAUGauld, Tom
Summary: "Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 GAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAUPauw, Marion
Summary: A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a demanding boss, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental, aloof mother. Just a few years ago, Iris was confident and in control. But every day since Aaron’s birth, she’s condemned herself for being a failure—a bad parent who cannot cope with a difficult child. Though she loves her son fiercely, she despairs over his intense outbursts, which are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUDaum, Meghan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAUBen-Daṿid, Mishḳah
Summary: When Ronen, an expelled Mossad agent, vanishes after a failed assassination attempt against a Hezbollah operative responsible for suicide bombings in Israel, Gadi, his former commander, must find Ronen before he harms both himself and his country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENDowd, Siobhan.
Summary: When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DowBen-Daid, Mishah
Summary: Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely―until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENDowd, Ryan
Summary: "Christmas Eve at the homeless shelter looks the same as any other night: Kids running around. Volunteers serving coffee and Kool-Aid. People looking for a warm place to spend the night. Then something magical happens" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empathy Studios 2021
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE DOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE DOWDowd, Siobhan.
Summary: Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWLambert, Megan Dowd
Summary: April and Mae are best friends, and their pets are best friends, too! On Tuesdays, April and Mae play soccer. Mae likes to run, and April likes to cheer. But this Tuesday, Mae slips on the muddy field and misses a goal. April tries to cheer up her friend, but Mae is sad and mad. Can April help Mae feel better?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAMLambert, Megan Dowd
Summary: "April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they are late to book club, they use their individual talents to get back on track"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAMCasey, Maud.
Summary: "In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASPatterson, James
Summary: A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATDau, Stephen.
Summary: When his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in the Middle East, fifteen-year-old Jonas is sent to live with a foster family in America and struggles to adapt before revealing the heroics of a missing soldier who saved his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DAUCasey, Dawn
Summary: "A little girl visits her grandmother in summer and winter, and together they explore the wonders of her garden. Until, one day, Nana isn't there anymore. But as winter gives way to spring, the girl learns that life goes on, and so does the memory of those we love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: Seagull Sid and his fine feathered mates are sick of looking at all the rubbish that people leave behind at the shore. But how can the seagulls reclaim their beach from the trashy humans? No worries, Sid has a mischievously messy plan of attack -- watch out below!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCMPowell, Dawn.
Contents: My home is far away -- The locusts have no king -- The wicked pavilion -- The golden spur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUISirett, Dawn
Summary: Invites readers to explore different types of transportation with Sophie the giraffe, from driving in a shiny car to flying in a polka-dot plane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Sophie 2016Sirett, Dawn.
Summary: Toys are hiding all around and rhyming text gives clues to where they might be found. On board pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2014
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Summary: Lift the flaps to find hidden pop-ups illustrating things on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011