Girard, Anne.
Summary: When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be drawn...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GIRSummary: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACGiordano, Paolo
Summary: Every year, after her school in Turin closes for the summer holidays, Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia and endures weeks of heat and boredom. This summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola; Tommaso; and charismatic Bern. Raised like brothers, they don't go to school, but instead live in a kind of commune led by Cesare, a teacher and father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIOBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BACBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACGiordano, Paolo
Summary: "When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIOCognetti, Paolo
Summary: "For fans of Elena Ferrante, Fredrik Backman, and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGDoucet, Rashad
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Pax Samson, a brown-skinned child with telekinetic powers, decides between his chef aspirations and the family business, which is that of being superheroes. Pax is known in his family for being a great cook, and supplying copious amounts of Dragon Noodle Soup for family cookouts. But the planet of Soltellus knows him as "the offspring of the great hero of the Tri-City...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DOUBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BACBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BACChikiamco, Paolo
Summary: "Manila--the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule--is a magical metropolis where monsters roam the neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. Tensions between the human and nonhuman realms are about to hit a breaking point in a city now governed by the mysterious Societies. Who will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIGiordano, Paolo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIOMendoza, Paola
Summary: In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENDoucet, Rashad
Summary: "After the art programs are cut at his school, Dale Donovan recruits talented artists to create an after-school art club"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the epic final season, Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria, their goal, they must assimilate, a tough ask for people who have seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth's resources, the group slowly adjusts to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Devlin 2016Nunn, Malla.
Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M NUNPella, Judith.
Summary: When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Their stepdaughter becomes enthralled with an Irish railroad worker and James must stop a destructive plan among the workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELSimukka, Salla
Summary: From a world where winter never seems to end, eleven-year-old Alice falls into a land of summer, meets her soul-sister Marissa, and works with her to overcome powerful Queen Lili.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIMCarter, Caela
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lydia, feeling threatened by the attention her changing body is getting from boys and men, finds a way to take control of her own skin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARKalla, Daniel.
Summary: Ben Dafoe, an ER doctor, is shocked to find out that his former fiancée has been murdered. The killer got away but left behind blood evidence--it's a rare blood type that matches Ben's own. Suddenly he's the prime suspect, but Ben has another idea: maybe his twin brother, a drug addict who disappeared two years ago, isn't dead after all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KALPella, Judith.
Summary: While the Civil War is raging, Brenton Baldwin has promised to provide a safe escort to California for Caitlan O'Connor. But now that his heart is totally hers, how can he leave her once they finally arrive? Meanwhile, Kiernan and Victoria O'Connor struggle as his work on the Central Pacific Railroad keeps them separated for long periods of time. Then a devastating accident with explosives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011