Mrs. & Mr. MacLeod
Summary: One by one, Sheila, Gerald and Geraldine are eaten--by books, throwing them into strange lands where Sheila escapes the weight of the world entirely, Gerald braves the wonder of seeing it up close, and Geraldine turns as terrifically terrible as she possibly can.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: The Day the World Ended Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. Jonah--John--if I had been a Sam, I would have been Jonah still--not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 1998
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Arthur of Gal, the future King Arthur, accidentally time-travels to the twenty-first century, Sophie Sawyer, twelve, must convince him to return and correct the time line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2018
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Summary: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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Summary: Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONChildress, Mark.
Summary: The titular heroine is the epitome of the church-going Southern belle, except for one teeny-tiny aspect of her life. Georgia's family inheritance has long since evaporated, and to maintain her genteel lifestyle, Miss Bottoms has taken six affluent lovers--the fly in the ointment being that one is a married preacher who's about to reveal their infidelity to the whole congregation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHIChildress, Mark.
Summary: Georgia Bottoms, a Southern belle who keeps six lovers--none of whom know of the others--so she can maintain a lavish lifestyle, finds her ruse crumbling when a married preacher she has been seeing plans to confess their affair in front of his congregation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Childress 2011Teague, Mark
Summary: In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Chicken Little panics when an acorn falls on her head and sets off a dance frenzy among the other chickens, and while squirrel and the other animals understand what really happened, they soon join in the dancing--because it is fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TEALamprell, Mark.
Summary: "Michaelo O'Dell is hit by a car, and when he doesn't die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can't seem to move, frozen in the crash position. He can't concentrate, or control his anger and grief, or work out what to do about much of anything. His professional life begins to crumble, and although his wife Wendy is heroically supportive, his teenage children only exacerbate his post-accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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Summary: "One year after the president has plunged the world into nuclear war, a journalist takes refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. On assignment, she documents internet humor at the end of the world, hoping along the way to find the final resting place of her wife and daughter. What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and twitter jokes in an archive of the internet's remnants, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOTTwain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWITwain, Mark
Summary: "Based on a set of unfinished Mark Twain notes for a children's story, this is the tale of Johnny, a young boy with a magical ability to speak to animals who sets off to rescue a stolen prince"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SAUMeister, Cari
Summary: Seb, Princess, and Snowy are the three horses who call themselves the Tres Caballos Incognito, and they like to break out of the barn at night and go on adventures--and tonight's adventure is a trip to an amusement park where Seb the draft horse is looking forward to riding the roller coaster, and gathering more material for the book he is writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MEIFriedman, Laurie B.
Summary: "Amanda Adams has always dreamed of running for class president. Her mom is a member of Congress and her dad is a political strategist who manages her mother's campaigns. Politics is in her DNA. She has the perfect VP in mind for the school ticket: her best friend Meghan Hart. But when Amanda finds out that Meghan has political ambitions of her own, these two best friends suddenly find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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Summary: Seb the draft horse is very upset because a friend from the neighboring farm has moved away, and Snowy and Princess decide that a seaside adventure will cheer him up because he has always wanted to swim in the sea, and anyway Princess wants to catch a fish (she is convinced that she is actually a cat)--but when Seb swims out too far and panics, it is up Princess to rescue him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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Summary: Princess is a show pony who is absolutely convinced that she is a cat and needs to hunt for her dinner, Blizzard (otherwise known as Snowy) is a Shetland pony who needs material for the book he is writing, and Sebastian is a draft horse who knows how to break out of the barn; so together the Tres Caballos Incognito set out for the clover fields looking for adventure--where Princess chases a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MEIMeister, Cari
Summary: It is Snowy the Shetland pony's birthday and Princess and Seb have planned a surprise trip to the movies to celebrate--but three horses in a movie theater are bound to result in one smelly situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MEILowry, Mary Pauline
Summary: "Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes. Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020