Enger, Leif
Summary: "Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Summary: Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ENGEnger, Leif.
Summary: The story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2008
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Summary: An aging train robber on a quest to reconcile with his wife and a failed writer head west and are pursued by an ex-Pinkerton who's been hunting the train robber for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ENGLeaf, Munro
Summary: Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lóguez Ediciones 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 468.4 LEAEnger, Leif
Summary: Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 214 FIC ENGEnger, Leif.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2002
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Summary: Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGEnger, Leif.
Summary: The story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ENGHering, Marianne.
Summary: Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to 1000 A.D. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2010
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Summary: Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2000
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Summary: Ferdinand likes to sit and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting & stomping convinces everyone that he is very fierce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Leaf 1964Leaf, Munro
Summary: Wee Gillis can not decide whether he wants to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Children's Collection 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEAFreiman, Lexi
Summary: "A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics. Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRELarsen, Reif.
Summary: "The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital's electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy-with pitch-black skin-born to the stunned white parents. No one understands the uncanny electrical event or the unexpected skin color. "A childbirth is an explosion," the ancient physician says by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARSelf, Jeffery
Summary: JT is a gay high school senior determined to get out of Clearwater, Florida, and be the first person in his family to go to college, even though he can not figure out how to pay for it--until his friends convince him to compete in a drag teen competitionwhere the first prize is a college scholarship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SELEddings, Lexi
Summary: "High school English teacher Angie Holloway has been in this little Ozark hamlet for a few years, but she still feels like an outsider. And with no family of her own and single to boot, she's rusty when it comes to opening her heart. Nevertheless, she's been drafted to direct the annual Christmas pageant--whether she likes it or not. As for her assistant, that job's been handed to Seth Parker....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EDDLeng, Qin
Summary: "With beautifully composed watercolor illustrations, Qin Leng recalls her own childhood in this story about a little girl who has always been the smallest: smallest of the family, smallest in school, smallest in a crowd. The girl faces her own set of challenges, but her loving parents and an unexpected visitor might change her perception for good."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LENZumas, Leni
Summary: Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zumas 2018Nargi, Lela.
Summary: Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NARRelf, Adam.
Summary: When Fox wants someone to play with, he takes his Mom's advice and sets off to make a friend. What happens along the way surprises him! Fox is about to make the best friends he could ever hope for--but not in the way he imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Publishing 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION RelfPersson, Leif G. W.
Summary: "A galvanizing new thriller from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author--a stand-alone novel that finds legendary Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson racing against time to solve one final murder. In the National Criminal Investigation Department he was known as "the man who sees around corners." Now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017