Summary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWESpelling.
Contents: Red -- Haunted water -- Hard to please -- Golden numbers -- Melted wings -- Under the sun -- Real fun -- Hard to please (reprise) -- Afterlife -- Dirty desert dreams -- Secret thread -- Falling asleep
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sacred bones records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPEGodbout, Geneviève
Summary: When Maloo the kangaroo loses his hop, his friends help him find it again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GODSpurling, Hilary.
Summary: An engrossing biography of Buck, a woman whose fascinating life gave her a unique outlook on the plight of women and the suffering of China's rural poor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCK, PEARL SPUSpurling, John
Summary: "In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat, employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity wit this regime-the Mongols, after all, areinvaders-he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead to live the life of the mind. Wang is an extraordinarily gifted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUSperling, Jacqueline
Summary: "Find Your Fierce is a concise and practical guide for teens dealing with social anxiety"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2021
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Summary: "A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new 'home' - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion--seemingly intertwined--permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUDCôté, Geneviève
Summary: When Mr. King builds a machine to stop caterpillars from eating pretty flowers, he doesn't notice his machine is destroying the environment until his friends call for him to stop.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC COTCôté, Geneviève
Summary: When Mr. King goes fishing, he unexpectedly catches what he believes to be a monster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCôté, Geneviève
Summary: Wanting a dog for his birthday but instead receiving a pet ghost named Fluffy, young Bob becomes frustrated by his ghost companion's disobedience and inclination to eat everything in sight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCôté, Geneviève
Summary: When Piggy and Bunny encourage each other's inner stars while performing in a play, they discover that the same feeling can be expressed in very different ways.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Pr 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTSpurling, Hilary.
Summary: The negative portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend, Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. - Jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 SpuSpurling, Hilary.
Summary: It is hard to believe today that Matisse was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATISSE, HENRI SPUCogman, Genevieve
Summary: "Never judge a book by its cover. . . . Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library.But trouble has a tendency of finding both Irene and her apprentice, Kai--a dragon prince--and, before they know it, they are entangled in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ROC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Cogman 2017Cogman, Genevieve
Summary: "A professional spy for a mysterious Library that harvests fiction from different realities, Irene faces a series of assassination attempts that threaten to destroy her and everything for which she has worked. Irene is teaching her new assistant the fundamentals of a Librarian's job, and she is finding that training a young Fae is more difficult than she expected. But when they are the targets...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGCogman, Genevieve
Summary: "Librarian-spy Irene and her apprentice Kai are back in the second in this "dazzling"* book-filled fantasy series from the author of The Invisible Library. The written word is mightier than the sword--most of the time... Working in an alternate version of Victorian London, Librarian-spy Irene has settled into a routine, collecting important fiction for the mysterious Library and blending in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Cogman 2016Cote, Genevieve
Summary: "As darkness falls, two very different friends explore what scares them... and discover that with a bit of help, it's possible to see things in a new light"-- From dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCote, Genevieve
Summary: The shortsighted but well-meaning Mr. King returns in this delightful story about conservation and friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTGornichec, Genevieve
Summary: "When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this fierce, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse myth. Angrboda's story begins where most witch's tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to give him knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GORGraham, Genevieve
Summary: "Canada, 2018: At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left. Soon she'll be gone, just like her husband, her daughter, and the many loved ones she's lost over the years, and the story of her shameful past will die with her. When her great grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASpilling, Michael
Summary: "Despite its small size, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus has a long and vibrant past, serving as a gateway between Europe and the Middle East. This book examines the geography, history, culture, and more of both the nation's Greek-speaking south and the Turkish north. Photographs, facts, and sidebars all help to show readers what life in Cyprus is really like."--Provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.93 SPISwerling, Beverly.
Summary: Relaunching her architectural history career by tracking down several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica, recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall accepts the help of smitten reporter Geoff Harris in an investigation with ties to a 16th-century Carthusian monk and a Jewish goldsmith who struggled for survival in a shadowy world marked by Thomas Cromwell, sexual secrets and religious treasure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWECogman, Genevieve
Summary: "After being commissioned to find a rare book, Librarian Irene and her assistant, Kai, head to Prohibition-era New York and are thrust into the middle of a political fight with dragons, mobsters, and Fae. In a 1920s-esque New York, Prohibition is in force; fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion: and intrigue is afoot. Intrepid Librarians Irene and Kai find themselves caught in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGCogman, Genevieve
Summary: When Irene returns to London after a relatively straightforward book theft in Germany, Bradamant informs her that there is a top secret dragon-Fae peace conference in progress that the Library is mediating, and that the second-in-command dragon has been stabbed to death. Tasked with solving the case, Vale and Irene immediately go to 1890s Paris to start their investigation. Once they arrive,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018