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Farm life Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Great Britain Court and courtiers Fiction Great Britain History James I, 1603-1625 Fiction Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Life on other planets Fiction Occupations Fiction Occupations Juvenile fiction Science fiction Stuart, House of FictionSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THAErian, Alicia.
Summary: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERISummary: A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSchwarz, Liese O'Halloran
Summary: Clare, one of the oldest women in Rhode Island, believes that all the painful secrets of her long life have been laid to rest, until an unexpected encounter with a piece of her past forces her to realize the time has come to tell her story. Ben, a shy, precocious six-year-old being gently raised by a devoted mom, witnesses a terrible crime and is taken to the hospital, bewildered and alone....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCHMcDonald, Briana
Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDBrin, David.
Summary: Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRISchwarz, Liese O'Halloran
Summary: In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok forty years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Schwartz 2021Brin, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIHughes, Rian
Summary: At Jodrell Band in England Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin--a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGAlston, Bria
Summary: When Tiana decides to try cooking with a new spicy pepper, she is excited to begin but first, she learns how to plant a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH/Disney 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ALSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green AlstonSummary: The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCBrin, David.
Summary: After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: When Hari Seldon learns of a conspiracy that will threaten the existence of his Second Foundation, he sets out with a group of unlikely companions to stop the conspiracy before it destroys all humankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRILymon, Bria
Summary: "Young children can join Malibu and Brooklyn as they care for horses and learn to ride in one story, and then flip the book over to follow the girls as they learn about all the adorable animals on a farm"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN LYMLymon, Bria
Summary: You can be a teacher: Malibu and Brooklyn help teach children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LYMFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FRAAlston, Bria
Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALSRoyal, Bria
Summary: What if your magic is your mania?: Struggling to stay afloat off the coast of the last habitable landmass on the planet, Géminis Castores makes a garden ‘discovery’ that could secure her a SPOT for generations to come - until a psychological split turns out to be both the brink and bane of her success. bria royal’s Black Girl Mania: The Graphic Novel uses afro-indigenous futurism and comic book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROYBrin, David
Summary: The starship Streaker is still on the run with its dangerous cargo of ancient artifacts when the prophesied Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. As each race battles for control and chaos reigns, the truth about the Five Galaxies and The Progenitors finally comes to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: A new society of sapient beings has secretly evolved on the forbidden planet Jijo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: An alliance between the formerly warring enemy races of Jijo is tested by the arrival of starship technology, and various grudges and criminal acts threaten one of the planet's races with genocide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985