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Summary: Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WARJanine
Contents: Let It Run (4:04) -- Dark Mind (4:16) -- Hold Me (3:35) -- Little Bit (3:55) -- Bullets (3:37) -- Hold Me (feat. Pusha T) (4:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Mixtape Records/Atlantic 2014
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Darznik, Jasmin
Summary: "A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARDarznik, Jasmin
Summary: "A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers--exploring Dorothea Lange's wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. In 1918 Dorothea leaves the East Coast for California, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking woman with a complicated past, gives her entrée...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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Summary: "From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man's involvement in France's worst terrorist attack. Khalil, a 23-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd outside the Stade de France on November 13, 2015. Explosions are rocking Paris, at cafes and the Bataclan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KHAGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUIGallo, Carmine.
Summary: Public speaking coach and bestselling author Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED (technology, entertainment, design) presenters as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to get their cutting-edge insights and to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.4 GALGarza, Amber
Summary: Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren's house. She'd never met the parents, and usually she'd go in, but Amelia clearly wasn't going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the yellow roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARWatsa, Mahinder
Summary: Does size matter? Is masturbation harmful? What is the G-spot? Do men have a G-spot? Should you feel anxious and guilty about 'bad' thoughts? 'Relax! It's perfectly normal, ' says Dr Mahinder Watsa, India's foremost sexologist. In this book he addresses and explains all the issues and concerns that you might have about sex and sexuality. From understanding your body to teenage troubles, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649 WATDriver, Janine.
Summary: What if you could increase your salary by 15 percent, kick problems and worries to the curb, and get a better night's rest simply by learning how to detect a lie the moment it starts (or even before)? What if you had an easy-to-use test that tipped you off the instant someone held something back from you? An innate lie detector so powerful it becomes an unconscious skill, applicable with any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Nargi, Lela.
Summary: Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Picardie, Justine.
Summary: Sleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world ofGabrielle Chanel. The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage and her flight into unconventional adulthood, Justine Picardie explores what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Teisson, Janine
Summary: Pour son maître, Loulou n'est pas un chat normal : il déteste chasser les souris ! Eh bien, puisque c'est comme ça, le prince Duracuir l'envoie au cachot. Heureusement, il y rencontre Lili la souris qui trouvera la ruse pour le sortir d'affaire. Une atmosphère médiévale pour l'amitié improbable d'un chat et d'une souris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 TEI FRENCHTeisson, Janine
Summary: La classe de mademoiselle Rosalie et ses dix élèves ont reçu une invitation à « venir dévorer des livres à l’occasion de l’inauguration de la librairie L’ogre bouquiniste ». Tiphaine Lhogre les accueille. Les enfants peuvent ouvrir tous les livres qu'ils veulent ! Bientôt il est l'heure de rentrer à l'école, mais… trois élèves ont disparu ! Leurs livres sont abandonnés par terre. Tout le monde...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard jeunesse 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 TEI FRENCHHarrington, Justine
Summary: "Lonely Planet's Texas is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the state has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Delight in live music at an Austin club, get lost in Big Bend National Park and visit NASA's Space Center in Houston; all with your trusted travel companion."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USALarbalestier, Justine.
Summary: Meet the narrator who leaves readers reeling. Dare to believe her? Micah is a liar. That's the one thing she won't lie about. Over the years, she's duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents. But when her boyfriend Zach dies under brutal circumstances, Micah sets out to tell the truth. At first the truth comes easily—because it is a lie. Other truths are so unbelievable, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2010
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Jaine, Lillian
Summary: There are lots of ways to say "I love you" -and Elmo and his Sesame Street friends are ready to tell you in as many ways as they can!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAIWaugh, Sylvia.
Summary: Upon suddenly learning that her parents are researchers from another planet and they must leave in seven days or risk discovery, twelve-year-old Nesta decides to stay in their York, England, home, whether or not her parents go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WAUHesse, María
Summary: "Frida Kahlo fue algo más que dolor y angustia. Quiso ser fiel a su arrolladora personalidad y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es sangre y sufrimiento, pero también fiesta, color. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera, una mujer apasionada que no se conformó con estar a la sombra de su gran amor, el pintor Diego Rivera, y peleó por alcanzar cada uno de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH HESLanagan, Margo.
Summary: On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2012
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Vargas, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam-and how she dealt with this anxiety as she came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VARGAS VARVargas, Fred
Summary: Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according to popular legend, werewolves have no hair on their bodies because they are inside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHSummary: The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie's fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which is unwittingly marching towards Revolution, and Jamie must now defend the home they have built together at Fraser's Ridge while Claire seeks to put her own skills...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020