Hopgood, Sally
Summary: "A departing tortoise has his bags packed and is almost ready to set out on an adventure, but he can't leave until he says good-bye to each of his animal friends. The tortoise stops for every last timid mouse and bumblebee, shouting his rhyming good-byes, making you wonder if, perhaps, he's stalling the start of his trip. His animal friends appear startled as he suddenly pops up on each page to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOPHopgood, Tim
Summary: "Follow a girl, accompanied by her teddy bear, as she dreams about the wide and wonderful world. Cozy scenes of pajamas and bedtime make this a perfect story to share at the end of the day."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPHopgood, Tim
Summary: A picture book adaptation of the song Singing in the rain, which celebrates the glory of clouds and rain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPLamb, Wally.
Summary: Felix Funicello is a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he's confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood's silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit--and in some cases relive--scenes from his past as they are projected onto...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Lamb 2016Lally, Caitriona
Summary: Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LALLally, Megan
Summary: Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2024
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Summary: In this variation on the folktale, Sody Salyraytus, each of Epossumondas's birthday guests disappears until it is finally up to him to rescue them all and bring home the "sody" for his birthday biscuits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SALSimukka, Salla
Summary: From a world where winter never seems to end, eleven-year-old Alice falls into a land of summer, meets her soul-sister Marissa, and works with her to overcome powerful Queen Lili.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIMVickers, Salley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VICLamb, Wally.
Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMLamb, Wally.
Summary: A holiday novella focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello as Christmas approaches in 1964, then looks forward from the past to the present to measure what America has gained and what it has lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAMLamb, Wally.
Summary: Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fic LamLamb, Wally.
Summary: Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen move to Colorado and find jobs at Columbine High School. One day in April 1999, when Caelum is called away by a family emergency, Maureen cowers in a cupboard in the school library, hiding from two students on a murderous rampage. Though miraculously she survives, Maureen cannot recover from the trauma. Seeking solace, the couple returns to Connecticut to an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMLamb, Wally.
Summary: Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LAMSalley, Coleen.
Summary: Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup-garou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SALSummary: Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOCarter, Ally.
Summary: "Cammie Morgan and her friends finally know why the terrorist organization called the Circle of Cavan has been hunting her. Now the spy girls and Zach must track down the Circle's elite members to stop them before they implement a master plan that will change Cammie--and her country--forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARLamb, Wally
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lamb 2016Reuter Hapgood, Harriet
Summary: Gottie Oppenheimer, a seventeen-year-old physics prodigy, navigates grief, love, and disruptions in the space-time continuum in one very eventful summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REUGage, Cully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 GAGGomez, Halli
Summary: A suicidal teen fighting the symptoms of Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder creates a bucket list of ten goals to achieve by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, before a newcomer with her own troubled history unknowingly offers him more hopeful perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOMLalli, Sonya
Summary: "Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want-and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life. Things are going according to plan for Serena. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. Even before her younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021