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Summary: The Detroit Tigers pitcher and veteran umpire share their respective views on the June 2, 2010 game that was entered into the record books with what the umpire believes was his erroneous call on the final out, tracing their career stories while impartingthe significance of the game in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3 GALGarzon, Armando.
Contents: Flor de ausencia -- Si me comprendieras -- Escandalo -- Nosotros -- La mentira -- Alfonsina y el mar -- Tenia que ser asi -- Capullito de alheli -- Eso -- Rosa dormida -- Guarina -- Sabor a mi -- Le dije a una rosa -- No me vayas a engan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Corason 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GARArmand, Glenda
Summary: The Birthday Bird flies to a child's house on their special day to bake them a birthday cake the Kartoo way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ARMCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORArnaldo, Monica
Summary: "Grub is a lonely raccoon. Rumbling in the trash. Looking for food. Seed is, well, a seed! Patiently waiting in the trash. Hoping someone will plant it. When the two finally meet, they realize they might be able to help each other! Grub has just one big question first: What will Seed grow? Could Seed grow Grub's favorite food, mouthwatering cheeseburgers? Seed isn't sure what a cheeseburger is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNArmand, Glenda
Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMArmand, Glenda
Summary: "This picture book biography recounts the extraordinary life of Augustus Jackson, an African American entrepreneur who is known as the 'Father of Ice Cream.'"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JACCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: Una novela inolvidable ambientada en el Berlín de la primavera de 1939, la Cuba pre- y postrevolucionaria y el Nueva York después del 11 de septiembre. Antes de que todo se desmoronara, Hannah Rosenthal y sus padres tenían una vida encantadora. Su familia, una de las más distinguidas en los altos círculos sociales berlineses, era admirada por amigos y vecinos. Ahora en 1939, Berlín se ha teñido...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC CORCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CORGonzalez- Perez, Armando
Summary: A beautiful and poignant true story about a golden retriever rescued from his street life in Turkey that explores the concepts of love, loyalty, compassion, happiness, freedom and redemption. Chance is the amazing story of a golden retriever dog that looses his family and winds up in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, where he joins a pack in order survive against more agreesive breeds. He is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 GONBaltazar, Armand.
Summary: "In a world where past, present, and future have collided, Diego and his friends must rescue Diego's father from an evil group of renegades, otherwise their whole existence is threatened"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALLenchek, Armand
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Publisher / Publication Date: SoundWave Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM LenschekCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband's has agreed to take her in. Along the way,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORSkyhorse, Brando.
Summary: A novel that explores the lives of those who shed their ethnic identity in pursuit of the American dream highlights a different character in each chapter, including Hector, a middle-aged day laborer who witnesses a murder, and his ex-wife Felicia, who survives a drive-by shooting.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SKYBrando, Marlon
Summary: An ex-fighter gets caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSkyhorse, Brando
Summary: "Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SKYAntunes, Arnaldo.
Contents: Cê não vai me acompanhar -- A curva da cintura -- Grão de chãos -- Kaira -- Ir, mão -- Se você -- Um senhor -- Cara -- Psiu -- Que me continua -- Neblina de areia -- Muito além -- Coração de mãe -- Meu cabelo -- Bamako's blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mais Um Discos 2012
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Summary: "Little sisters and little brothers all long for the same few things when it comes to their older siblings: a turn to play, a place on the team, a chance to shine. Little Brothers & Little Sisters starts with four pairs of siblings in and around an apartment complex, each expressing through play and daily life the many gripes and pitfalls of younger siblings. Subtly, the narrative shifts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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Summary: "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIGAranda, Ana
Summary: "A family honors their living and dead relatives as they celebrate the Day of the Dead with shared food and stories"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ARACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ARACorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Correa 2016Correa, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler's deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden, so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction CorreaCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn’t been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she’s blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024