Summary: Two strangers agree to carpool across the country for the chance to participate in a controversial study about the afterlife once a scientist has conclusively proven she can follow people's continued existance after their physical presence has been terminated. Teddy thinks he'll be more successful while Rose just wants a way out, but both are leaving people behind and have secrets that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Dee, Noor H.
Summary: Find out what as-salamu 'alaykum means and when to say it. A new series to help children understand common Islamic terms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DEEFagan, Deva
Summary: Apprentice wizards Antonia and Moppe must set aside their rivalry and unite their opposing skill sets to save Master Betrys, their island nation, and themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum, Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGRiva, Renee.
Summary: When A.J. returns home to Indian Island, her dog Sailor, and childhood friend Danny, she surprises everyone with her plans . . . but Danny has something else in mind. For eight years, A.J. Degulio has been itching to get back to her beloved Indian Island. It's home. But a lot has changed: Sailor moves slower, Danny has grown into a man . . . and A.J. has a promise to keep.but it doesn't include...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVFagan, Deva
Summary: After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A. J. Degulio loved the idea of a visit to the Old Country... until her family decided to stay. Now it's 1972 and she's turning fourteen in a crumbling castle on a hill in Tuscany, wishing she were back in Idaho with her beloved dog, Sailor. In Italy, her blonde hair makes her stick out like a vanilla wafer in a box of chocolate biscotti, and she's so lonely her best friend is a nun from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A quirky girl, a faithful dog, and one unforgettable summer." -- cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cook Communications Ministries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVFagan, Deva
Summary: Paro questions the system she once believed in and joins the Seafoxes, a ragtag team of players seeking to win the deadly Noctis games, to saver her grandfather.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGViva, Frank
Summary: Rhyming text tells of a boy's birthday at Coney Island, while each turn of the page reveals a new meaning for an oronym--a pair of words or phrases which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VIVWallander, Disa
Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALGeffen, Adiva
Summary: "Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate...She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland...This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought... WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Adiva Geffen] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GeffenSrinivasan, Divya
Summary: Little Owl explores the forest at daytime after being woken up by a noisy squirrel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Viva, Frank
Summary: A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVViva, Frank.
Summary: Follow that road! Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea, and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out and down. Frank's striking graphic style is executed in just five joyous colors, and his spare, rhythmic language is infectious. Hit a bump? Get back on track! Reach the end? Start again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Viva 2011Riva, Maria
Summary: Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises await her and her young husband in Mr....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017