Correa, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORFerry, Peter
Summary: "Tom Johnson has just turned eighty-five. When faced with a nursing home, he escapes to the Netherlands to find the woman he fell in love with during World War II. His children want him back, but Tom fights to stay in the Netherlands for love, family and all the remaining rights of an old man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERMiller, Derek B.
Summary: Sheldon Horowitz, 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable, is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: M3CD FIC MILDe Alvarado, Aracely
Summary: The Mexican skeleton Catrina has been invited to a Day of the Dead dance, and she's searching for just the right outfit to wear. She pulls her Aunt María's dress from a dusty chest, but it has a stain! There's a skirt made of fine cloth, but it looks like a dusty old drape. Purple shoes that don't fit, a pair of pants that are too short and a blouse missing a button what will she wear? Finally,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DE ACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DE ACameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTTyler, Anne.
Summary: "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYLPouncey, Peter R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUHudson, Melanie
Summary: "'This is a note to yourself, Juliet. You must keep the memories alive, because once upon a time you told a man called Edward Nancarrow that you would, and it's important to keep that promise.' A daring WWII pilot who grew up among the clouds, Juliet Caron's life was one of courage, adventure - and a love torn apart by war. Every nook of her Cornish cottage is alive with memories just waiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hudson 2019Monroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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Summary: "An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series! A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard-widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSummary: Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: "Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUZMistry, Rohinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISRyan, 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: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
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 WALDean, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dean,Robinson, Marilynne.
Summary: In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RobinCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION Robinson 2006Butler, Robert Olen
Summary: "A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTMistry, Rohinton
Summary: Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISRobinson, Marilynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROBSee, Lisa.
Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005