Summary: Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRISummary: A strange flower grants a young girl magical powers, which leads to the adventure of a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Shippen, Lauren
Summary: Caleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. Other than that his life is pretty normal. But when Caleb starts experiencing mood swings that are out of the ordinary for even a teenager, his life moves beyond "typical." Caleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy--he feels the emotions of everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIGipson, Fred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1956
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic GipsonGipson, Fred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIPShulman, Polly.
Summary: Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual library— a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. That's where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow White's stepmother's sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Banyai, Istvan.
Summary: A wordless picture book that shows a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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Summary: A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Summary: When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1994
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Summary: "Through an heirloom charm bracelet three women will rediscover the importance of family, love, faith, friends, fun and a passion for living as the magic of each charm changes their lives. Lolly, still lives in the family cabin on Lost Land Lake where hermother gave her the charm bracelet that would become Lolly's talisman and connection to family past and Lolly hopes the present, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shipman 2016Shipman, Viola
Summary: "Devastated by the sudden death of her mother -- a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family -- Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction ShipmanShipman, Viola
Summary: "Two women, separated by a generation but equally scarred by war find hope, meaning and friendship through a garden of flowers. Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to loneliness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind a towering fence surrounding her home and gardens, Iris has built a new family ... of flowers. Iris propagates her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: To gain viewers as a local meteorologist, Sonny throws herself into all the holiday shenanigans hosted by a widowed father and Chamber director whose genuine love for the town, winter, and Sonny may just thaw her heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shipman 2021Yanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANNisson, Sam
Summary: After discovering that a high-speed personal jetpack has been commissioned by an evil enterprise to be a thieving tool, Carmen Sandiego swoops in to retrieve it, in a book that allows readers to make choices that determine the path of the narrative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: "Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Shipman 2021Shipman, Viola
Summary: Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past. Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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Summary: Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for the ramshackle summer home that she inherited on Lake Michigan. But facing a broken marriage, an empty nest, and middle age, she is determined to rebuild her life and make the cottage into a bed-and-breakfast-on her own terms. Yet costly surprises and demanding guests were not part of the plan. But as the cottage comes together, so does...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Carmen travels around the world, saving wild animals of all kinds, in a book that allows readers to make choices that determine the path of the narrative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NISRippin, Sally.
Summary: Jack loves camping at the beach. He can sleep in a tent, make campfires and go exploring! But will his adventures take him too far?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing 2015
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Summary: "Billie's class is off to the zoo! She has to stop everyone from being naughty. If only they'd listen to her!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2013
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Summary: "Billie has always been best friends with Jack. But now Rebecca wants to be her best friend! Who will Billie choose?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2013