Summary: Two folktales from Asia. In Tale of the Mandarin ducks: a compassionate couple risk everything to reunite a pair of ducks. In The stonecutter: a lowly Japanese stonecutter dreams of power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ASIMcDermott, Alice
Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MCDGerard, Anna
Summary: When her friend, Roxanna, a wedding planner, is found dead and her partner, Virgie, is accused of the crime, Nina Fleet, who is trying to tap into the destination wedding market, decides to do her own investigating before tying the knot takes on a whole new meaning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERGeras, Adèle
Summary: "1895 -- Cecily is enchanted when she meets Rosalind, a photographer. But Cecily's father refuses to let her help Rosalind; can Cecily follow her dreams?"--Page 4 of cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GERElias, Gerald
Summary: "Blind violinist Daniel Jacobus is living in self-imposed exile and enjoying a peaceful Christmas Eve when he receives an anxious phone call from obscure violin-maker Amadeo Borlotti, urgently requesting a meeting. In their festivity, Daniel Jacobus and his dear friends Nathaniel and Yumi make light of it and dismiss Borlotti's request. But when Borlotti goes mising after a fire in his shop,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIElias, Gerald.
Summary: "Reclusive, blind violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus is invited to speak at a seemingly innocuous symposium on Baroque music at a prestigious music conservatory. He has no idea he is about to become enmeshed in an entrenched culture of sexual harassment and its cover-up at the highest levels. When a renowned faculty member dies of apparent natural causes, only the curious behavior of a violin...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIElias, Gerald
Summary: "A freak summer storm severs an island music festival in the middle of Utah's Great Salt Lake from the mainland. When one festival administrator, and then a second, is found dead, can curmudgeonly Daniel Jacobus solve the murders before his protégée, violinist Yumi Shinagawa, becomes the third victim?"--Amazon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Level Best Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIMurnane, Gerald
Summary: On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land. A young film-maker arrives on the plains, hoping to make his own contribution to the elaboration of this history....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURMurnane, Gerald
Summary: "Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane - the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections - the first two of which were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURGerard, Anna
Summary: A sequel to Peach Clobbered finds stage-struck proprietor Nina Fleet hosting a community Shakespearean troupe before clashing with the company's director about his claim to her home, only to discover the murdered body of the production's leading man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERGiraldo, Maria Loretta
Summary: "A tiny seed finds itself lost in the world, but with care from the Sky, Earth, and Sun it grows up to be a beautiful apple tree. When the tree meets a bird in need of help, it offers its branches as shelter and shows little readers the magic of being cared for and taking care. This comforting tale celebrates the harmonious relationship between birds and trees, reveals the quiet wonder of our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GIRWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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Summary: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BagnoldSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: As Valentine's Day approaches Charlie Brown tries to find the courage to give the Little Red-haired Girl a valentine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHErickson, John R.
Summary: Hank the Cowdog gets into more and more trouble before he is able to find a happy solution to his problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Hank Erickson 2012Willems, Mo
Summary: "En ¡Escucha mi trompeta! Cerdita no puede esperar a tocar para Geraldo su nuevo instrumento. Pero ¿está ella lista para escuchar su reacción?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILWillems, Mo
Summary: Cerdita ha sido invitada a una fiesta pro primera vez. Pero ¿qué se pondrá? Geraldo, el experto en fiestas, sabe exactamente cómo ayudarla, ¿o no?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILKroll, Virginia
Summary: Every sunny afternoon, Emilio wheels his grandfather outside to watch the butterflies. Emilio's grandfather can no longer speak, but Emilio can see happiness in the older man's eyes as he watches butterflies dance through the air. But one day the butterflies fly away. Can Emilio bring them back and make his grandfather smile with more than just his eyes?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KRO BASKETSummary: A little mouse tells his friends about all the things he loves about winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD LIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIO BOARDArmand, Glenda
Summary: The Birthday Bird flies to a child's house on their special day to bake them a birthday cake the Kartoo way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ARMBusby, Cylin
Summary: "The story of cat Jacob Tibbs, runt of the litter, and his exploits on the high seas as a ship's mouser"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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Summary: Hank the Cowdog has one of the scariest adventures of his life when he and his cowardly companion, Drover, find themselves in a strange and spooky place on Halloween night.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Hank Erickson 2012Steele, Michael Anthony
Summary: When the Mystery Inc. gang gets lost in the desert they decide to check out the local ghost town, Sladeville, and find it apparently full of ghosts--but Velma suspects that living people are behind the ghostly manifestations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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Summary: "Welcome to Snoopy's world! What will Snoopy be today? Will he be a flying ace, or a writer working on the next great American novel? Anything is possible in Snoopy's imagination. Join Snoopy on some of his favorite adventures--most of which take place right on top of his doghouse"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015