Munsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNAgar Agar
Contents: Made ; Lost dog ; Sorry about the carpet ; Fangs out ; Gigi song ; Shivers ; Lunatic fight jungle ; Duke ; Requiem ; Schlaflied für Gestern.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AGAAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSOnsgard, Bethany
Summary: Have you ever wondered what life was like for miners and their families during the California Gold Rush? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, A Day in the Life section, index, and glossary also included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979 ONSBrahem, Anouar.
Contents: The lover of Beirut (7:44) -- Dance with waves (3:56) -- Stopover at Djibouti (6:34) -- The astounding eyes of Rita (8:41) -- Al Birwa (4:51) -- Galilee mon amour (7:17) -- Waking state (7:48) -- For no apparent reason (6:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRAAfshar, Tessa
Summary: After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens, Ariadne runs away to her father's home in Corinth, only to discover the perilous secret that destroyed his marriage: though a Greek of high birth, Galenos is the infamous thief who has been robbing the city's corrupt of their ill-gotten gains. Desperate to keep him safe, Ariadne risks her good name, her freedom, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AFSBrahem, Anouar
Contents: Opening day -- La nuit -- Blue maqams -- Bahia -- La passante -- Bom dia rio -- Persepolis's mirage -- The recovered road to Al-Sham -- Unexpected outcome.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRAAnshaw, Carol
Summary: It's the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago's theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and knows it's time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new even as she's haunted by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSOnsgard, Bethany
Summary: "What did pioneers eat on the wide-open frontier as they made their way west? What kinds of clothes did people wear during the Civil War? What was school like in colonial America? Daily Life in US History answers all of these questions and more. Take a trip to the past to learn what everyday life was like in the different eras of US history." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 ONSAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ANSFrerick, Austin
Summary: "Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FREAnshaw, Carol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSAnshaw, Carol
Summary: A lesbian therapist in Chicago whose live-in lover disappears tracks her down in Morocco, only to find a different woman, a shock that puts her power of perception in question. If she could misread a lover for so long--a therapist's worst fear--perhaps she hardly knows her own mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSAsghar, Fatimah
Summary: "In this heartrending debut, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender; Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASGAnsari, Aziz
Summary: The acclaimed comedian teams up with a New York University sociologist to explore the nature of modern relationships, evaluating how technology is shaping contemporary relationships and considering the differences between courtships of the past and present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 ANSAnsari, Aziz.
Contents: Gay rights -- Sheets -- CVS -- Getting the sniffles on a flight -- Craigslist -- My random roommate -- Getting recognized in New York -- Walking with dinosaurs -- Simple man cruise -- My cousin Harris -- Harassing Harris on Facebook -- Are white people psyched all the time? -- MTV's next -- The J-1 waiver -- Using my BlackBerry while driving -- Bonnaroo -- Cold Stone Creamery -- Something cool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ANAAfshar, Tessa
Summary: "Biblical fiction inspired by the woman who was healed when she touched the hem of Christ's garment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AFSAfshar, Tessa.
Summary: After losing her husband, Ruth leaves her home to follow her beloved mother-in-law, Naomi, to Israel, where she lives a life of hardship until the wealthy and honored owner of the field where she works begins to show her favor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AFSAsghar, Fatimah
Summary: In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in America by braiding together personal and marginalized people's histories. After being orphaned as a young girl, Asghar grapples with coming-of-age as a woman without the guidance of a mother, questions of sexuality and race, and navigating a world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World, an imprint of Random House 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SADApgar, Cheryl.
Summary: Easy-to-follow recipes (one for each letter of the alphabet) and numerous activities that include songs, poems and chants, that enhance literacy and math skills while students learn and enjoy hands-on-cooking experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Teaching Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach ApgarDjavadi, Négar
Summary: "Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJARudholm, Ingar.
Summary: Story centers around a shy 14 year old boy named Flynn Parkes who is kidnapped by a traveling circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUDAfshar, Tessa
Summary: Purple . The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world. But before she was Lydia, the seller of purple, she was simply a merchant's daughter who loved three things: her father, her ancestral home, and making dye. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017