Barnes, Steven
Summary: "From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARSworder, Zeno
Summary: "One boy's parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son's life. But what happens next is unexpected. What does it mean when your parents are different? With humor and pathos, Sworder reflects on the strange nature of giving and receiving love and celebrates those parents who embrace a hard life for themselves in the hope of a better life for their children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE SWOWarner, Katie
Summary: "First there was a seed. A tiny seed. A mustard seed. A seed with possibility..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: TAN Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARBach, Richard
Summary: Because he spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of concentrating on getting food, a seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACBakis, Kirsten
Summary: A German scientist in Canada creates over 100 dogs who can talk and walk on hind legs. One day they revolt and move to New York where they become instant celebrities. Rich, intelligent and elegantly dressed, their story is told by a young woman journalist who befriends them and who discovers that they are doomed. An exploration of the boundary between human and animal. A debut in fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKGirzone, Joseph F.
Summary: A Christlike modern-day carpenter named Joshua tells fifty stories that give the New Testament parables contemporary meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIRLightman, Alan P.
Summary: God, or Mr. g, lives in the Void with his aunt and uncle, while he creates space and time through trial and error as his rival Belhor questions his choices as the universe grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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Summary: The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHMuth, Jon J.
Summary: In this reworking of the Buddhist parable, Stillwater, a giant panda, teaches Addy that the grief she feels for the loss of her kitten, is part of life and is shared by everybody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUTRedfield, James.
Summary: An ancient manuscript found in Peru contains nine insights the human race needs to enter an era of spiritual awareness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2006
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Summary: "In this wordless time-travel adventure, three children at a Passover seder visit ancient Egypt to help baby Moses find his way safely to Pharaoh's daughter. When a family settles at the table for Passover, their dog nabs the afikomen bag (containing matzah used for the seder) and dives under the tablecloth. The children follow him and find themselves transported to ancient Egypt. There, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2023
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Summary: Celebrates the comfort and confidence a mother's voice brings to her child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD WITSummary: A collection of uplifting and touching stories about the truly important aspects of life : loving, learning, parenting, obstacles and living our dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 CHIBlake, Sarah
Summary: With the coming of the Great Flood - the mother of all disasters - only one family is spared, left drifing on the endless waters, waiting for them to subside. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine word to build an ark and launch an escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive. Here is the woman torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLAGirzone, Joseph F.
Summary: Tells the story of Joshua, the simple, hardworking man who does beautiful carpentry and has an extraordinary effect on everyone he meets, transforming them with warmth and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIRSteinbeck, John
Summary: A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y Fiction SteWatterson, Bill
Summary: "In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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Summary: "This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids 2023
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Summary: "In this amusing wordless picture book, a young toddler uses her stuffed bunny to perform a number of daring acts."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CASLam, Thao
Summary: "An astronaut is getting ready to explore a new world. Boots? Check. Gloves? Check. And a helmet, of course. They take their first step outside ... and discover a strange new world with towering hills to climb, fantastical beasts to meet, and a raging storm to overcome. Will they make it back to their ship safely? A child's excitement for a snowy day transforms a walk to school into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: There are so much life under the sea! This book is designed and created by the Montessori teaching method, by means of drawings built up with simple, repeated geometrical forms, minimal details and sharp outlines defined by the colours that are most easily identified by small children: black and white. Progressively complex visual features as well as introducing a third, colour, red, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BARBecker, Aaron
Summary: A master of the wordless form imagines a futuristic Noah's Ark in a luminous sci-fi parable for our changing world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: "In this wordless picture book, a student is accidentally left behind on a field trip to a volcano island"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022