Laporte, Paul.
Summary: An inspirational and richly-written story of a beloved ordinary priest, told through the stories from family, friends, patients, volunteers, and clients of the foundation he started. For the citizens of Traverse City, Michigan, he was a hometown hero.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Communications 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI B FATHER FRED LAPLaBonte, Gail.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the llama. Also includes information on its history and relationship to people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dillon Press 1989
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.73 LABLaBonte, Gail.
Summary: Describes the appearance, behavior, and rearing of the miniature horse and discusses its development, uses, and growing popularity in North America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dillon Press 1990
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.1 LABCapote, Truman.
Summary: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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LaMotte, Lily
Summary: "It's almost Lunar New Year, and Chloe can't wait to celebrate! But first, Chloe and her family must prepare for the new year. They buy new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate the red envelope, and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together to cook a fantastic feast, saving a plate for A-má, of course. Chloe enjoys the festive celebration and yummy food, but most of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LAMPauli, Lorenz.
Summary: When Fox goes to the library looking for mice, Mouse offers fox a book so that he will get new ideas -- like wanting to eat chickens. But when the chicken-eating, fox-hunting farmer walks into the library, Fox and Chicken think fast and come up with a surprising solution that just might save them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAUPaull, Laline.
Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Coelho, Paulo.
Summary: The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist. There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear. . . Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013
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Gaul, Gilbert M
Summary: Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm’s way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won’t be long before we see a $250 billion hurricane. Why? Because Americans have built $3...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.34 GAUCoelho, Paulo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espan̋ol 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SPANISH 468 COECoelho, Paulo
Summary: A young man seeks wisdom from a retired archer who explains how the principles of archery can help readers find the courage to take risks and embrace life's unexpected turns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COECoelho, Paulo
Summary: "A novel of Mata Hari's final days, as written by the woman herself while accused of espionage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COECoelho, Paulo.
Summary: Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Coelho, Paulo.
Summary: "My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Capote, Truman.
Summary: Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Capote, Truman.
Summary: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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Capote, Truman
Summary: Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their murderers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1 CAPKahl, Colin
Summary: "Two of America's leading national security experts offer the most definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the US and the world order in the 21st Century. The COVID-19 crisis is the greatest shock to world order since World War II. Millions have been infected and killed. The economic crash caused by the pandemic is the worst since the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1962 KAHNail, David.
Contents: Whatever She's Got (3:57) -- Broke My Heart (3:17) -- Burnin' Bed (3:37) -- When They're Gone (Lyle County) (3:42) -- Brand New Day (4:44) -- Kiss You Tonight (3:50) -- The Secret (4:21) -- Countin' Cars (2:52) -- Easy Love (3:22) -- I'm A Fire (4:04) -- Galveston (3:14).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2014
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Summary: A sleepy Norwegian town erupts after an American backpacker is arrested. Witnesses claim a teen died after touching the stranger, and that he inexplicably started a fire that engulfed a farm. He warns a psychologist, Christine, that he has supernatural powers, and that anyone who gets too close to him dies. Is he a liar, a freak of nature, an angry god? Determined to find the truth, Christine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MORHauf, Michele.
Summary: A Romance for Every Mood! Discover four ways to fall in love with these four original novellas... A white witch and a soul reaper battle for each other's hearts. A hot cowboy meets a sexy guest at a dude ranch and gets the ride of his life. A deadly storm may bring a detective and the woman he loves together...or tear them apart. And a woman expecting to go on a first date finds herself caught...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012
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Nail, David.
Contents: In The Ghetto (3:15) -- Can't Feel My Face (3:33) -- In The Air Tonight (4:30) -- Send My Love (To Your New Lover) (3:30) -- Looking For A Good Time (5:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2016
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Baur, Joe
Summary: Describes points of interest in each region of the country, providing recommendations on restaurants, hotels, shopping, entertainment, and historic sites.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc. 2019