Brown, Carron
Summary: Explore natural and man-made wonders from ancient cities to modern volcanoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROBlake, Robert J.
Summary: In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLAPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRETarshis, Lauren
Summary: It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series TarshisKarunatilaka, Shehan
Summary: "Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida--war photographer, gambler, and closet queen--has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARMárquez, Melissa Cristina
Summary: Arriving in Sri Lanka to find an extremely rare Pondicherry shark, 12-year-old Adrianna Villalobos and her family discover that it is the main attraction in a restaurant aquarium and must convince the restaurant's owners to release it back into the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARIvey, Eowyn
Summary: In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2016Rocklin, David
Summary: In colonial India at a time of growing friction between the ruling British and the restless Indian populace, a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant defy convention, class, and heartbreak to investigate what is gained--and lost--by holding life still.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROCShepherd, Megan
Summary: Nina, a young girl unsure of her role in her communist society, befriends a dog named Laika, who dreams of finding a home and is being studied in Nina's father's lab as part of the Soviet space program
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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Summary: A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BREHutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to--and captives of--rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle's 1908 world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTJefferies, Dinah
Summary: "In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jefferies 2015Luloff, Joanna
Summary: To those living in the south of Sri Lanka, the civil war between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector seems unreal, until north and south lives intersect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LULDagg, Carole Estby.
Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAGMoss, Helen
Summary: "It's the winter of 1924 and a diptheria outbreak is threatening the population of Nome, Alaska. The only way to stop the deadly illness from causing a full blown epidemic is to immediately deliver one million units of the diptheria antitoxin to the affected communities ––a task that seems impossible given that the only way to reach any place in Alaska at this time of year is by dog sled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC MOSTolosa Sisteré, Mariona
Summary: "A family adventure into the local woods teaches readers how to plan ahead and use the five senses to respectfully uncover the natural wonders hiding in their own local environments. This simple story works in layers. It is a journey, full of discovery, into the outdoors. It is also a "how to" guide, which offers children a template for how to plan their own nature adventure--whether with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TOLBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BREJefferies, Dinah
Summary: Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child. While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JEFMcClatchy, Lisa.
Summary: Phillip and Nanny are taking Eloise to see the dinosaurs, but will she behave?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MCCPhillips, Tom
Summary: After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHIGunesekera, Romesh
Summary: "A coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: Second grader Ali Tahir considers himself to be a dinosaur expert, but on a class field trip to the natural history museum, Ali keeps getting his facts wrong, and is embarrassed in front of his friends and classmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARGwin, Minrose
Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018Hill, Kirkpatrick.
Summary: "It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013