Gipi
Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIPSummary: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SATSims, Lesley
Summary: Little Mouse astonishes Lion in this lively retelling for little children. Lion thinks Little Mouse is too small to do anything... but will Little Mouse surprise him? A wonderful retelling of a much-loved fable by Aesop, with charming illustrations by John Joven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SIMSims, Lesley
Summary: Then I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF and I'll blow your house down!" cried the wolf. Find out what happens when the three little pigs build homes made of straw, sticks, and bricks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC publishing 2019
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Summary: "Little Wise Wolf is very wise. He loves reading books and soaking up all the knowledge embodied within them. One day, Little Wise Wolf is called on to use his impressive wisdom to help the ailing king. But on his way to the palace, he slowly realizes hemay not be as wise as he thinks he is, and that the world is much bigger than that contained within his books."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAMSims, Lesley
Summary: Goat decides they need different food to eat, so he gets his boat and goes fishing in the castle's moat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2015
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Summary: "The little weasels have woken up covered in spots! Have they really caught the measles? Find out in this entertaining story for beginner readers, with simple rhyming text, stylish illustrations and parents' notes on phonics at the back of the book."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SIMSims, Lesley.
Summary: The Gold Knight exhibits good sportsmanship when he unexpectedly loses at jousting. Fourteenth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach VerySims, Laura
Summary: In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSims, Lesley
Summary: "Poor Cinderella is made to cook and clean for her stepsisters. Her wicked stepmother won't even let her go to the Royal Ball. But then, in a flurry of sparkles, her Fairy Godmother arrives and everything changes."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG SIMSims, Lesley
Summary: "This engaging, eye-catching series makes learning phonics fun. Each story introduces beginner readers to a wide variety of phonemes in a lively, rhyming tale. David Semple's bright, detailed illustrations bring the stories to life, encouraging young readers and listeners to return to them time and time again." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SIMSims, Lesley
Summary: A retelling of the Snow White and seven dwarfs fairy tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2015
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Summary: It's Midsummer Night ... In the woods outside Athens, two fairies are up to mischief. Their spells lead to chaos, confusion and a weaver with the head of a donkey. This is a magical retelling of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIMSims, Laura
Summary: "No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSims, Lesley.
Summary: The fifth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading with children. In this story, grizzly bear Sal discovers to her dismay that she can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach VeryGigl, Robyn
Summary: Erin McCabe is a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live a quiet life in the wake of profound personal change, until a newsworthy case--the murder of a state senator's son--puts both her career and safety in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GiglGoss, Theodora
Summary: Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capturea reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOSAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZGigl, Robyn
Summary: When a trans woman pleads guilty to killing her millionaire businessman father, transgender attorney Erin McCabe, determined to clear her name when the facts don't add up, becomes trapped in a web of human exploitation, unchecked greed and murder where her quest for justice turns into a struggle to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIGGoss, James
Summary: At a remote clinic in Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother about the secrets and strange faceless creatures that rise from the sea that are found there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOSKoch, Gini.
Summary: Marketing manager Katherine "Kitty" Katt steps into the middle of a domestic dispute, but things get ugly when the man turns into a winged monster and goes on a killing spree. In the middle of the chaos a handsome hunk named Jeff Martini appears, sent by the "agency" to perform crowd control. He's Kitty's kind of guy, no matter what planet he's from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCLiss, David
Summary: In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader desperate to recover his lost fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city, and confronts a ruthless adversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISSims, Lesley.
Summary: Two adventurous mice take a trip to the moon. Eighth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading with children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach VeryKies, Thomas
Summary: The newshound in Geneva Chase spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Ant then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters and thus, out of the news. Out on the crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2018