Scarpa, Romano
Summary: Donald Duck has a secret identity in this collection of short comics stories - the infamous super-anti-hero, Duck Avenger!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Sometimes, an ordinary walk can become something ... magical! Tag along with Ruby as she discovers that even big cities have a wild side"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Cornell Lab Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOKerby, Mona.
Summary: In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC KERSummary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANKerick, Mia
Summary: Robby's not in the closet because he never guessed he's gay, until he meets Tristan. They'll need courage and strength for a loving future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamspinner Press 2013
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Sosa, Mia
Summary: Crashing the wedding of complete strangers who don't belong together, Solange agrees to be the former groom's pretend girlfriend to make up for her interference, and as they fake date for the benefit of his colleagues, they form an undeniable connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOSMiller, Mona
Summary: Poppy and Branch go on a hair-raising journey to save their friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Miller 2017Simpson, Mona.
Summary: "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives. And even then he can't stop searching. Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMMora, Oge
Summary: When the aroma of Omu's homemade stew fills the air, her neighbors arrive, one by one, for a taste until all is gone except for her generous spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORMora, Pat.
Summary: Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1996
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Summary: "Libby and her great-aunt, Lobo, both learn the Pledge of Allegiance--Libby for school, and Lobo for her U.S. citizenship ceremony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOROberländer, Mia
Summary: "In the sleepy German countryside live the Annas, cursed to be too tall for their small town. Laughably long-limbed and gangly, their bodies refuse to conform with societal norms of delicate femininity, and the trauma of being different ripples across generations. And yet, there may be a blessing to their burden; like the mighty mountains surrounding their town, they find that there is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OBEMora, Julissa
Summary: Black and white illustrations of common garden insects are paired with different sayings to greet them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duo Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MORMora, Oge
Summary: When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MORArshi, Mona
Summary: Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesn't. Silence becomes Ruby's refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mother's mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARSIngram, Mona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IngraSimpson, Mona
Summary: "The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMAlvar, Mia
Summary: "A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new writer--vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk of life. Mia Alvar's stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back. One man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVCouto, Mia
Summary: A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUSummary: A few days after Christmas, half-sisters Ida and Tuva set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastline. Toward the end of the dive, a rockslide traps Tuva underwater. As Ida surfaces to call for help, she discovers that the rockslide has struck above water as well, burying their equipment, phones, and car keys; they are completely cut off from any chance of outside rescue....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BREKim, Mia
Summary: "Set in Sixties post-war Korea, [Me, then] is a...story of Su-young's life with her aunt and her family. After a series of disastrous stays in various foster homes, the five year old Su-young, an illegitimate child, a lasting stigma in traditionalist Korea, hopes to find a stable home with her aunt. Her mother works and lives at an American army base on the outskirts of Seoul and visits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuan 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMMcKenzie, Mia
Summary: "Twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely--and unrepentantly--on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKAwad, Mona.
Summary: Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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Summary: "Struggling to crochet a lucky hat for her beloved Nai Nai's birthday, Lyn Lyn learns that the best gift of all comes from within"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023