Summary: An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHISummary: Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2010
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Contents: Preface: after meal Bible spiel -- Adam and Eve -- Cain and Abel -- Noah and the ark -- The tower of Babel -- Jacob and Esau -- The golden calf -- Samson and Delilah -- King David: David and Goliath, David and Bathsheba, David and Absalom -- Jonah and the big fish -- My troubles (a work in progress, by Joseph of N--)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLKnowlton, Laurie Lazzaro.
Summary: Kelsey and her father begin tapping sugar maple trees as family and friends gather to help in the process of turning the harvested sap into maple syrup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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Summary: Michael Seeley, the tough-but-wounded hero of Errors and Omissions, has resigned from his high-powered Manhattan law firm to work as a sole practitioner in Buffalo. Business is slow, so when his estranged brother, Leonard, a doctor, flies in from California to beg him to take on a suit for patent infringement on an AIDS vaccine, Michael is in little position to say no. He agrees to take the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: "Karen Neulander has always been fiercely protective of her son, Jacob, now six. When Jacob's father, Dave, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn't in his plans, Karen walked out of the relationship, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. But now Jake is asking to meet his dad, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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Summary: Little Mouse creates a painting which looks like three different things to her three friends, all of whom find themselves in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1992
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Summary: Cowboy Slim Jim Watkins has everything he needs to start his own ranch--except a unique brand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. Co. 1996
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Summary: Losing his successful law firm and marriage to pride and alcohol, litigator Michael Seeley slowly recovers his reputation only to risk everything by accepting a case from an aging musician who with six other composers seeks to reclaim copyrights to culturally significant Cuban songs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLLanda, Norbert.
Summary: Big Bear, always alone, likes that he can slurp his soup, burp, and make other noises, not realizing that the rabbits across the river think the loud noises and odors are coming from a monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LANRyan, Lindy
Summary: "A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan. Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with...normal business. The dead die,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: "A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHEGrodstein, Lauren
Summary: "This book is a masterpiece: profound, gripping, urgent, and beautiful." --Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles. A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II. On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2009
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Summary: An atheist widower begins to question his lack of faith after he falls in love with a passionate evangelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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Summary: "Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: This is a charming, touching story about an imaginative boy whose best friend is an oak tree named Bertolt. The boy admits to being an outlier among his peers, but insists that while he is alone, he is never lonely. Being independent suits him, and he considers his difference to be his advantage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2017
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Summary: Told entirely through illustrations, Letters to a Prisoner is a wordless story about the power of hope and the written word. Inspired by Amnesty International’s letter-writing campaigns to help free people who have been jailed for expressing their opinion, the book tells the story of a man who is arrested during a peaceful protest. In solitary confinement, he begins to despair―until a bird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkid Books Inc. 2017
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Summary: "The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness," her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teaching of Ukrainian culture. They've even taken the grain from Zlata's family's fields. But despite the danger, her parents refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRAHartsuyker, Linnea.
Summary: "The first installment in a debut trilogy, THE HALF-DROWNED KING tells the compelling story of the political intrigues, battles, and struggles for power that led to the rise of King Harald the Fair-Haired, first king of Norway, seen through the eyes of the young man who became his most trusted warrior and advisor. Conjuring a bloodthirsty, superstitious, and thrilling ancient world (9th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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Summary: If Bridget Jones had two ex-husbands, three children, and invited her entire extended family over for Christmas... It's December 23, and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a chicken with its head cut off trying to pick up a few last- minute bits and bobs." Despite the frenzy, the twice-divorced mother of three loves Christmas and always wants to make it perfect. A challenge even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011