Summary: Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: ""Live all you can; it's a mistake not to." This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, Frieda finds herself at the center of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Heyns 2017Escoffier, Michaël
Summary: What happens when you subtract just one letter from a word? Beginning with "without the A the beast is the best" a pack of silly creatures work their way through the alphabet, subtracting each letter from a different word to alter its meaning and tell a story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCMuntean, Michaela.
Summary: The Sesame Street characters tell what they like about school. Objects in the pictures are labeled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Western Pub. Co. 1980
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC MUNRazi, Michaele
Summary: Frank loves making beautiful webs, scaring humans, running, and scurrying but after waking up one morning missing a leg, he wonders if he still is a spider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAZShalev, Michal
Summary: Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAEscoffier, Michaël
Summary: Invites young readers to guess the animals who are involved in different activities at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCEscoffier, Michaël
Summary: Charlie goes through his bedtime preparations, closes his eyes, and drifts off to sleep, only to be awakened repeatedly by noisy animals outside his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCSummary: Brian Cox is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: When a young superhero-in-training gets hurt, she discovers that mothers have superpowers, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: This fascinating story will capture any young reader with a thirst for adventure. Like MacColl s Prisoners in the Palace, Promise the Night propels the reader into an evocative story with an unforgettable protagonist, while bringing the setting and time period to life. Immediately compelling and action-packed, this work of historical fiction explores the life of Beryl Markham, the fist person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2011
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Summary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMMulisch, Harry
Summary: In the last days of 1945 in Holland an entire family is massacred except for one twelve-year-old son. The reprecussions of this nightmarish event follow him through his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULCarter, Michaela
Summary: "As Leonora and Max embark on remarkable journeys together and apart, the full story of their tumultuous and passionate love affair unfolds, spanning time and borders as they seek to reunite and reclaim their creative power in a world shattered by war. When their paths cross with Peggy Guggenheim, an art collector and socialite working to help artists escape to America, nothing will be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGoade, Michaela
Summary: As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: A family of matchmaking mice help two love-struck bunnies overcome their shyness and realize their true feelings for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House 2006
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORBabay, Michal
Summary: Leelee and her dog perform mitzvahs around the house to get ready for Shabbat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BABHenterly, Jamichael.
Summary: Depicts a gnome at work and play in his garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HENGilchrist, Micaela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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Summary: "At home in Seoul, former journalist Sae, is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work. He has never been this late before. Her children are crying, and Sae, exhausted and anxious, turns on the TV to distract herself. She clicks to the news, which shows a horrific disaster, the collapse of a massive skyscraper where Jae was an engineer. Minutes, then hours, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICRichtel, Matt.
Summary: A late-night accident on a San Francisco subway platform has altered Nat Idle's reality. But then, there are no accidents. Disoriented and bloodied after a near-deadly fall onto the subway tracks, freelance journalist Nat Idle discovers that a beautiful stranger has come to his aid . . . and that the burly man who barreled into him had intended to do Nat harm. What he doesn't know is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: Discover the whimsical activities of sheep at bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHIFaber, Michel
Summary: Baffled by the sudden disappearance of the letter D, a young woman is summoned to the home of a former history teacher before arriving in an enslaved, wintry land where free thinking is under threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABFaber, Michel.
Summary: Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002