Summary: Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2020
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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 GOLWolkstein, Diane.
Summary: Little Mouse creates a painting which looks like three different things to her three friends, all of whom find themselves in it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: When too many barnyard friends climb in to go to town, Chuck's truck breaks down, but Handyman Hugh knows just what to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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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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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: 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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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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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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: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkid Books Inc. 2017
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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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: Joe the frog wants to be on the go, but even at a family reunion he is out of luck, as everyone says they are too busy, or he is too fast, too slow, too big, or too small to go with them, until Grandma invites him to go with her on a special outing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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Summary: Pamela Paterson has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker, drops dead at a cookies and coffee reception, it's up to Pamela and the Knit and Nibble ladies to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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Summary: "When a murder shocks picturesque Arborville, New Jersey, Pamela Paterson and her Knit and Nibble knitting club suddenly find themselves at the center of the investigation--as suspects . . . Pamela is ready to kick back and relax after a busy day selling stuffed aardvarks to benefit Arborville High School's sports program at the annual town festival. But just as she's packing up, she makes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Pamela is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can't wait to liven up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old friend who recently moved to town, as the group's newest member. But on the night of the gathering, Amy doesn't show. Not until Pamela finds the woman dead outside--a knitting needle stabbed through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "America's favorite housekeeper strikes again! This volume contains the complete text and illustrations of all three books."--BOOK COVER.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandy Creek 2010
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Summary: As Amelia Bedelia helps Mrs. Rogers prepare for Christmas, she bakes a date cake with a calendar in it and stuffs the children's stockings with turkey stuffing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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Summary: Minneapolis Simpkin is not allowed to have a pet, so she finds the most unusual replacement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1987
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Summary: Harley is a service dog to elementary school teacher Ms. Prichard, who needs a quiet, orderly environment. One of her students, Amelia, has auditory sensitivities of her own. When a small fire throws the class into chaos, Harley must help Ms. Prichard -- but he's also the only one who can convince Amelia to come out of hiding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2021
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Summary: A third-generation beekeeper who relates better to the constant companions in his hives than most people must come to terms with the loss of his long-time friend, Claire, who was killed during a burglary gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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Summary: As always, Amelia Bedelia follows exactly the instructions given to her on a camping trip, including pitching a tent and rowing boats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003