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Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATIWalter, Jess
Summary: We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings reveal Vonnegut's versatility and vision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VonnegutPerelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph)
Contents: Introduction: Perelman, the Pearl of Providence / by Adam Gopnik -- Sketches and Satires. Puppets of passion: a throbbing story of youth's hot revolt against the conventions -- Those charming people: the latest report on the Weinbloom reptile expedition -- Scenario -- Strictly from hunger -- The love decoy: a story of youth in college today-awake, fearless, unashamed -- Waiting for Santy: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Patterson, James
Summary: French Kiss: "Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start—but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York."--jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Irving, Washington
Summary: Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION IRVPaley, Grace.
Contents: Two ears, three lucks -- The little disturbances of man. Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life. The used-boy raisers ; A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth -- Enormous changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSelznick, Brian
Summary: An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC SELSummary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACarpenter, Stephanie
Summary: Missing Persons by Stephanie Carpenter won the 2017 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. These ten stories, all of which were published in literary journals including Crab Orcahrd Review, Nimrod International Journal, and The Missouri Review, offer readers a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people facing out-of-the-ordinary problems—street sweepers sending incomplete messages that a young couple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Press 53 2017