Lester, Natasha
Summary: "New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: It is up to mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains and prevent a clash between the living the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCGurevich, Margaret
Summary: When Gabriela hears about tryouts for a solo dance at the next dance competition she is super excited, but when Brie, her best friend at Ms. Marianne's Academy of Dance, decides to try out as well, it seems like it might be the end of a beautiful friendship--because Gabby really wants this opportunity, and she is having trouble dealing with the idea of competing against a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: an imprint of Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GURSummary: Winter is here, and the mountain is cold and snowy! All the animals who live there are enjoying the season in their own way: Beaver chews trees, mountain goat leaps across the ice, and hare proudly wears his new white coat. But goose must fly away to somewhere warm, while bear naps in his cave. Kids will love the book's special see-through feature and Anne Passchier's delightful art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD PASNorman, Diana.
Summary: Philippa risks her life to cross the Channel in France in order to save her old friend the Marquis de Condorcet from beheading during the Reign of Terror and finds love in the midst of danger and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORContents: Part I, Pembina Chippewa drum songs. Soldier's honor song ; New grass dance song ; Rock dance song ; Go homing song ; Love song/Round dance ; Buffalo song ; Many eagles set sun dance song -- Part II, French songs, from elders to children. Le matelot de Montréal = The sailor from Montreal ; Chanson à boire = Drinking song ; Le garçon le moins heureux = The most unhappy fellow ; Napoléon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN PLARyan, Pam Muñoz.
Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003
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Summary: Best friends Hannah and Caitlin are both on the high school dance team, but Hannah is troubled when her friend's preoccupation with a boy causes her to miss practice time and put their friendship at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONMarshall, Catherine
Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarshallMarshall, Catherine
Summary: "In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARViva, Frank
Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVMosse, Kate
Summary: In 1891, young Leonie Vernier arrive at the home of a young, willowy, and beautiful aunt in southwest France. Villagers claim that Leonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds. More than a century later an American graduate student, arrives to the same town while researching the life of Claude Debussy. There, a pack of Tarot cards and a piece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Punto De Lectura 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION MOSGeorge, K. (Kallie)
Summary: The charming first book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she first arrives at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GEOMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMLupiano, Vincent dePaul
Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023
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Summary: Little Llama becomes friends with Chinchilla when the tiny animal offers to help her find the sweet grass at the top of a mountain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing, an imprint of ABRAMS 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOJohnson, Craig
Summary: "What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in an 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSummary: "The color layout gives maximum case of access and enables effective communication for educational, business, and traveling purposes. Usage levels are indicated throughout, with extensive examples to illustrate how words are used in context. A system of style labels identifies whether a word is formal, informal, literary, offensive, dated, or euphemistic. In addition, specific meanings are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 443 COLSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: In the perilous Mortmain mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SNITrow, M. J.
Summary: Second in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered leader, William the Silent. However, travelling in disguise as part of a troupe of Egyptian players, Marlowe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRODodd, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODWall, Carolyn D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2009