Kurkov, Andreĭ.
Summary: "Penguin Lost finds Viktor Zolotaryov sneaking back into Kiev under an assumed identity to undertake a dangerous mission: He wants to find Misha, his penguin, whom he fears has fallen into the hands of the criminal mob looking for Viktor himself. Guilt-ridden and determined to do what it takes, Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who employs him in an election-rigging campaign, in return for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2011
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Summary: "When Mario and his brother, Luigi, find their way into the strange and wonderful Mushroom Kingdom, they discover a world in need of unlikely heroes. Soon enough, they are teamed up with a brave, can-do princess, a friendly toad, and an angry ape--against a very big bad named Bowser and his forces. Luckily for the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser may have just met his match!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: While on a train headed for labor camps under Nazi command, Lisa, a young Russian woman, is rescued by resistance fighters and falls in love with Maxim, one of the battalion members, who has dark secrets, while Maxim's wife, Irina, trapped in a government job back in Kyïv, risks her life to help her neighbors, and both women must face a hard decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2021Litteken, Erin
Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books Ltd. 0000
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Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009
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Summary: "Watching the Red Army withdraw from Ukraine in the face of Hitler's relentless advance, Natasha Smirnova realises her life is about to change forever. As Kiev is cast under the dark cloud of occupation, Natasha falls in love with Mark, a Hungarian soldier, enlisted against all his principles on the side of the Nazis. But as Natasha fights to protect the friends and family she holds dear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2020James, Hollis
Summary: "Michelangelo discovers an amazing creature in the sewer. Is it a friend, an enemy, or a monster?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: "Nintendo and Mario Kart fans ages 5-8 will love to meet Mario, Luigi, and all their friends and foes in this Step 3 Step into Reading level reader as they compete and race to win!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FOXWhitehill, Simcha
Summary: In "An Ultra-Urgent Rescue," Ash helps his friend Lillie rescue her mother from a mysterious Ultra Beast; and in "Buzzwole Battle," Ash takes on his first assignment as an Ultra Guardian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Casey Shield, a hacker who invented the Dynamax Simulator, and Henry Sword, a boy who repairs gear for Pokémon, both dream of entering the Galar region's Gym battles. For Casey, it's a chance to reunite with her lost Pokémon. For Henry, it's an opportunity to search for the legendary Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield. Henry and Casey participate in the Gym Challenge! Henry's skills as a Pokémon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 POKAzuma, Kiyohiko
Summary: "YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: "The world of the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes is never going to be the same when LEGO Superman and LEGO Batman swap powers and personalities. Will they be able to pull themselves together in time to save the world?"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Colorful, psychedelic sneakers hang from telephones wires all over the city. Up in the sky, they hang for all to marvel at. But when a few special pairs get knocked down, the kids have to try them on. Soon they're racing, dancing, learning to fly! These enchanted sneaks are out of this world--but where did they come from? And who would ever leave these behind?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Mauna A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashing passions—science and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear and courage—set atop Hawaiʻi’s 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddesses and star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America’s turmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holy mountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Night Books, an imprint of Easton Studio Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEEFraser, George MacDonald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAWasley, Robin
Summary: Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other—just days after one of the most humiliating romantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC WASHimekawa, Akira
Summary: Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards' power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the Twilight Realm beyond the Mirror of Twilight. Now, an evil menace is trying to find Midna, princess of the Twilight Realm, and the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power to rule over both the Twilight Realm and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin's "special military operation" against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: "I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 BELKuznetsova, Maria
Summary: "Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUZPickhart, Kalani
Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICYukimura, Makoto
Summary: "After months of hard labor as a farm slave, Thorfinn begins to realize what his father meant by the words, "A true warrior needs no sword." Perhaps he can find a new purchase on life in the mysterious land he heard tell of in his childhood: the continent to the west known as Vinland" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VINBarbo, Maria S.
Summary: Ash says goodbye to Kalos and embarks on a new quest in an unfamiliar region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BARBovalino, Tori
Summary: Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024