Druart, Ruth
Summary: A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUSummary: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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We have 4 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: Brothers Max and Jake couldn't be more different. Max is wealthy with a perfect life. Jake scrapes by, running a record shop. Driving home late one night, they accidentally kill an old man on a darkened street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV GUISummary: Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlRath, Tom.
Summary: When Felix wakes up one morning, he finds an invisible bucket floating overhead. A rotten morning threatens his mood--and his bucket--drop by drop. Can Felix discover how to refill his bucket before it's completely empty?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallup Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RatSepetys, Ruta.
Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Sepetys, Ruta
Summary: At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 SEPSummary: The third and final season of Philip Pullman's His Dark Material trilogy returns with an adaptation of the final book in the best-loved book series, The Amber Spyglass. Season Three opens with Lyra unconscious, having been given a sleeping draught by her mother, as Will, still carrying the Subtle Knife, continues his quest to find her in this epic story of love and truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SEPSepetys, Ruta.
Summary: "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SEPRubart, James L.
Summary: Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory. What if you could travel inside another person's soul? To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds. To help set them free to step boldly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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Grush, Loren
Summary: "When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 GRUJebreal, Rula.
Summary: Soon to be a major motion picture from award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine. The story begins with Hind, a woman who sacrifices...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Bluth, Karen
Summary: "As a teen, you're going through major changes -- both physically and mentally. And all these big changes and confusing new emotions can leave you feeling super stressed out and anxious. To make matters worse, you may feel like you just aren't good enough and constantly compare yourself to friends, classmates, or even celebrities. So, how can you manage stress, silence your inner critic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 155.5 ButRash, Ron.
Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Serena returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Ruhl, Jenny
Summary: Based on the award winning Bloodsugar101.com web site, this book explains what peer-reviewed research published in top medical journals has to say about: What is a normal blood sugar? How does diabetes develop? What really causes diabetes? What blood sugar levels cause complications? Must you deteriorate? What diet is right for you? How can you make that diet work? What medications are safe?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Technion Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 RuhRoth, Veronica.
Summary: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ROTRoth, David
Summary: Packed with fun-filled illustrations, easy-to-follow exercises, and sample jokes, this humorous how-to joke book for kids proves that with a little elbow grease, anyone can write jokes that really make people LOL. Covering everything from surprise to wordplay to visual jokes--plus tips on how to perform a joke so it lands--LOL 101 is the approachable and (of course) funny guide for any kid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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Summary: "All Princess Pipp wants to do is sing and perform, but her sister Princess Zipp would rather be doing anything else--like building something new! So when they get into a minor sibling fight, their friend Sunny suggests they switch places for the day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen 2010
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Summary: The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1986