Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia
Summary: Based on interviews with young women kidnapped by Boko Haram, this novel is the story of a girl taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival in the forest where she is forced to follow her captors' radical beliefs and watch her best friend succumb to them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NWASummary: Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Independence 2016French, Vivian
Summary: It's not much fun being a princess: you have to be prim, proper and obedient. Princess Peony lives in a world full of magical creatures - hags, trolls, giants and fairy godmothers - but her father's strict rules leave her feeling bored and lonely. She wants to learn how to DO things, and cooking's at the top of her list. But when Peony borrows a recipe book from the public library, the king has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRESummary: On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WATSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchMengiste, Maaza
Summary: "A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENElbee, Viviane
Summary: Trying to teach your giraffe to ski can be difficult--especially when she only wants to fly down the Big Scary Slope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBMengiste, Maaza.
Summary: The story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENSchwartz, Viviane
Summary: Tiny Cat is very confident at counting to four balls of yarn, but when more and more come bouncing into Tiny Cat's life, things get tricky! Of course, Tiny Cat finds the perfect way to settle the matter - sleep on it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHElbee, Viviane
Summary: Daryl does not want to share his favorite dinosaur book, so when it is time to bring it back to the library he uses all his dinosaur skills to get it back until a friendly librarian encourages him to share.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBGarza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Shotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOFrench, Vivian.
Summary: In this deadly funny fourth Tale from the Five Kingdoms, it's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and Total Oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction French 2010Tubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: "A fictional account of eleven-year-old Viviani Joffre Fedeler, who was born and raised in the New York Public Library, and her older brothers and best friend Eva, who all try and find out if the library is haunted."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBShaw, Vivian
Summary: "A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShaw, Vivian
Summary: "Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her family's specialty for generations. Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills -- vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAConroy, Vivian
Summary: "The mist-shrouded moors of Devon proffer a trove of delights for two vacationing zoologists--but also conceal a hoard of dark secrets reaching down to the fathomless depths of the ocean.Miss Merula Merriweather barely saved her uncle from the gallows after he was wrongly accused of murder--and now, she's left the bustle of Victorian London to recuperate in the fresh air of Dartmoor with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFrench, Vivian.
Summary: It's a fine day for dwarf watching! At least that's what Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus innocently think as they set out, unaware that Princess Marigold has honed her sights on Marcus and plans to follow him to the ends of the earth — fan, frilly petticoats, and all. As for the dwarves, it's not a fine day at all: they're overworked and underpaid, rushing to produce extra gold to make...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: High above the mountain village of Fracture, trouble is brewing. The sorceress Lady Lamorna wants a skull-studded gown of deep black velvet, but her treasure chest is empty of gold. That doesn't stop her, however, from kidnapping, blackmailing, and using more than a little magic to get what she needs. Will her plans be foiled by the heroic Gracie Gillypot, two chatty bats, a gallant (if...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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Vivian, Daisy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIVHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005