Brown, Skila
Summary: A collection of poems celebrates trains, describing the different types of trains, working in a train yard, and the joy of railroad travel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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Summary: "Outlaws ran wild in Apache County, Arizona Territory, until the day a long-haired, straight-shooting cowboy with the unlikely name of Commodore Perry Owens pinned on the sheriff's badge and set out to rid the county of lawlessness. Owens would need every bit of his gun skill just to stay alive as he cleaned up the territory! Acclaimed Western author Chuck Tyrell brings the illustrious career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYRBrown, Molly McCully
Summary: "In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BROHood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSHarjo, Joy
Summary: In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9 HARCrowder, Melanie
Summary: "From Antarctica's biting katabatic gusts to Hawai'i's sweet-smelling moani, discover fourteen winds of the world through poetry, scientific facts, and transporting illustrations."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551 CROPage, Nathan
Summary: "Orphaned teens Pete and Al Montague and their adopted sister, Charlie, already known for solving mysteries in their small New England town, begin studying magic as they investigate a disappearance connected to a seventeenth-century witch."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MONPerry, Michael
Summary: The author chronicles a year during which he struggled to grow his own food, live peaceably with volatile neighbors, and fix his pickup truck, at a time when he also fell in love and befriended a paraplegic and quadriplegic biker team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRY, MICHAEL PerryWeiss, Ellen
Summary: Despite their differences, Porky the messy pig and Bess the fussy cat are best friends and support each other in all their endeavors, from poetry writing to cake baking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WEISchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Laurel and Daphne Wolfe are identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret 'twin' tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCHStiefvater, Maggie
Summary: "Twins Alec and Walker Holland have a reputation around town. One is quiet and the other is the life of any party, but the two are inseparable. For their last summer before college, Alec and Walker leave the city to live with their rural cousins, where they find that the swamp holds far darker depths than they could have imagined. While Walker carves their names into the new social scene, Alec...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.544 PERSchine, Cathleen
Summary: "The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWAPage, Nathan
Summary: Alastair, Pete, Charlie, and Rachel aren't just magical teen detectives in their coastal town of Port Howl--they are also members of a local teen rock band. Before a show one night, Charlie and Rachel meet a famous rockstar, Gideon, and invite him to their show. He'll never come, but why not try, right? Little do they know, Gideon does show up, and he brings the threads of his dark past with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MONHansen, Grace
Summary: "Built and carved by the Nabataeans thousands of years ago, Petra still stands today in southern Jordan. Young readers will learn about who built it, when it was built, and why it was built. This title is complete with impressive historical and current photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 939.48 HANHerrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HERSpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRAnderson, Constance
Summary: A stick is just a stick, that is until animals and humans discover they make effective tools and amusing toys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDPerry, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.544 PERLatham, Irene
Summary: This beautiful poetry collection introduces readers to the art of found poetry as the poet writes a 37-line poem, "Nest," then finds 160 smaller poems within it. What can you find in a poem about a robin's nest? Irene Latham masterfully discovers "nestlings" or smaller poems about an astonishing variety of subjects--emotions, wild animals, natural landmarks on all seven continents, even planets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LATSummary: Explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter and lifelong educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. A film about perception and growing older, two artists who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WITDoyle, Catherine
Summary: "Twin princesses Wren and Rose, separated at birth and raised in two different environments, meet for the first time when they have to fight for the throne while juggling their romantic pursuits"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOYStevenson, Tom
Summary: The classic, award-winning book on Champagne and sparkling wine is now fully revised, updated, and expanded! Created for Christie's, the world's largest wine auctioneer, this edition features all-new photography, nearly 175 additional pages—including expanded sections on up-and-coming sparkling wine territories and Champagne itself—and freshened-up tasting notes. Throughout, Tom and Essi have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Epicure 2014