Little, Judithe
Summary: Raised by pious nuns, Antoinette, the younger sister of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, escapes to Paris, where her shared effort to launch a fashion brand is challenged by discriminating conventions and the horrors of World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITDow, Alechia
Summary: "Zaira Citlali is supposed to die. After all, she's the god Indigo reborn. Indigo, whose song created the universe and unified people across galaxies to banish Ozvios, the god of destruction. Although Zaira has never been able to harness Indigo's powers, the Ilori Emperor wants to sacrifice her in Ozvios's honor. Unless she escapes and finds Wesley, the boy prophesized to help her defeat Ozvios...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOWPhumiruk, Dow
Summary: "Mela ends up in trouble when her little boat is swept into the dense jungle. She offers each animal she meets a prize for helping her find her way home, but the animals take their rewards without helping--then an elephant shows Mela that kindness is its own reward"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHUDow, Alechia
Summary: Planet Earth is occupied by aliens called the Ilori, because human emotional expression is grounds for execution, books, music, and art have all been outlawed, but when an alien finds seventeen-year-old Ellie's secret library it changes things for both ofthem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOWDow, Michael
Summary: Rudolph “Rudy” Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world’s largest, multi-trillion-dollar corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist–an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what’s best for the rest of humanity. How does Rudy’s struggle to reconcile business and family impact the world’s future? And who, if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Dow 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDow, Alechia
Summary: "Wini's family of enchangers runs a bakery, yet with the prices of magical ingredients skyrocketing, they're going under. Desperate to save their business, Wini takes a risk by casting a (sort of illegal) spell. But the spell backfires. Badly. Now the whole town is in danger. It's just been Kal and her dad for as long as she can remember. But right as they're about to move to a new town for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOWGout, Leopoldo
Summary: As 200 geniuses from around the world go head to head in a competition hand-devised by India's youngest CEO and visionary, the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine. Like life and death. Welcome to the revolution... and get ready to run.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GOUPauw, 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 PAUSoup, Cuthbert.
Summary: Ethan Cheeseman takes his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, and Captain Jibby and crew, to the year 1668 to end an ancient family curse and save the children's mother, but damage to the time machine and the arrival of Mr. 5 complicate their return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SOUAnderson, Poul
Summary: The author creates a fantastic history of humankind in which a few naturally immortal beings find themselves, over millions of years, alienated from an evolving human race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDDaoud, 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 DAOWouk, Herman
Summary: A brilliant first novel catapults Arthur Youngblood Hawke from an impoverished Kentucky town to the heights of New York's literary world. Despite his mercurial career, and the demands thrust upon him by celebrity and wealth, he struggles to keep writing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOUDoan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOARous, Emma
Summary: "An addictive, highly commercial suspense novel featuring a grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V.C. Andrews, Kate Morton, and Lexie Elliot had a love child, Emma Rous and THE AU PAIR would be it. Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother Danny were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rous 2019Archer, Dosh
Summary: On the eve of the Battle of the Bands, Vinnie "The Crash" McLaren's best drumsticks are stolen, and it is up to Detective Paw and Patrol Officer Prickles to determine which of Vinnie's neighbors is the thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ARCDaoud, 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 DAODorf, Fran.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORKirwan, Noué
Summary: Mikaela is living the life she always dreamed of, until her past is splashed across a billboard in Times Square. Now Julie, her former best friend, is suing, and Mikaela is the junior partner working for the defendant.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KIRShinohara, Udou.
Summary: Peace Pet Rental's Lag is a robotic dog. He can be pretty slow at times and can't perform tasks aside from those written in his program, but despite all this, he's everyone's favorite dog. Soon, however, he is tackling people's problems in ways not included in his program, and it seems almost miraculous... Something mysterious has awakened within his heart even though he's supposed to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Digital Manga Publishing 2012
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Soup, Cuthbert.
Summary: Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SOUWouk, Herman
Summary: A tale told through correspondence, articles, and text messages traces the efforts of a group of movie makers, including a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father's strict upbringing, to create a movie about the life of Moses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOUCornett, Doug
Summary: Bellwood's finest kid detective team sets out to discover who is controlling the robot crows that are showing up around town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CORCushman, Doug.
Summary: Mouse and Mole find a perfect Christmas tree on their walk through the snowy woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American Books for Young Readers 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CUSDold, Gaylord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2001