Gutman, Dan
Summary: "After noticing that A.J. and his friends' geography knowledge could use some work, Mr. Cooper invites to class just the person to help. Globetrotter Mrs. Barr speaks seven languages and has visited nearly two hundred countries! But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere she goes? And why does she open a window whenever she walks into a room? Perhaps Mrs. Barr has something to hide"--Provided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTTokarczuk, Olga
Summary: A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC TOKDoig, Ivan.
Summary: Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DOIHolt, Anne
Summary: Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLCogan, Priscilla
Summary: "When a botched bank robbery leaves Billy T. Pickle in need of hostages, he winds up with more than he bargained for: a girl named Phoenix, who's filled with teen angst, and Kate, who's filled with wisdom that only comes with age. As they make their way across the country, Billy finds he needs these women more than he could have ever known"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2007
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Neuman, Andrés
Summary: "Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NEUSwift, Jonathan
Summary: The unusual voyages of Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him to such strange locales as Lilliput, where the inhabitants are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a nation ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2010
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Summary: The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Summary: Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GHOClarke, Brock
Summary: Powered by pitch-perfect dialogue, lovable characters, and surprising optimism, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? is a modern-day take on Graham Greene's classic Travels with My Aunt, a novel about grabbing life, and holding on--wherever it may take you.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLADaheim, Mary.
Summary: On a cross-country train trip to Boston, Judith McMonigle Flynn is disgusted by the antics of daredevil and fellow passenger Wee Willie Weevil, whose untimely death following the train's collision with a truck identifies the work of a murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHDennis, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENSwift, Jonathan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SWIGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Six intertwining stories told by travelers through time and different realms who are stranded at the World's End Inn by a reality storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 1994
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAIKluge, P. F. (Paul Frederick)
Summary: A jaded writer, a recently separated university professor, an elderly entrepreneur, and a Bangladeshi laborer end up on the same tropical island where they seek the promises of America and reflect on the hopes that brought them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLUPariat, Janice
Summary: One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMaitland, Karen.
Summary: In 1348, as the Black Plague holds England in it's grip, nine strangers attempt to outrun death. Each member has their own story to tell and each has a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMcLarty, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCLSwift, Jonathan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SwiftWalker, Alice
Summary: A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WalkerLehrer, Jim.
Summary: In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroad's famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known as "The Train of the Stars." And so we find it in April of 1956, embarking from Chicago for its trip across the Plains to the West Coast. Passengers include former president Harry Truman and actor Clark Gable. But as the train gains speed, a series of deadly events unfolds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHMcLarty, Ron.
Summary: Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005