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Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASAnatol, Giselle Liza
Summary: In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANASummary: An autobiographical film based on the director's life beginning in 1942 during Hitler's struggle to wrest Egypt, especially the city Alexandria, from the British Army. Yehia, an aspiring actor, and his friends experience the impact of war. Yehia studies cinema in Alexandria, stages his first makeshift productions, and finally reaches the conclusion that his future lies in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALEHirTsal, Josef
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 HIRHuser, Glen
Summary: Quirky babysitter Carolina Giddle moves into the Blatchford Arms, a spooky apartment building rumoured to be haunted, and enchants her young charges with ghost stories that they find eerily familiar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HUSArato, Rona.
Summary: In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARAAraton, Harvey.
Summary: "In times of change, American novelists return to old themes. In Cold Type--as in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman--a son and his father struggle to hold onto what they think is right. It's mid-1990s; and "cold type" technology, a.k.a. computerized typesetting, wreaks havoc among workers in the newspaper industry. A fabulously wealthy Briton buys the New York City Trib and immediately...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARAAmato, Max
Summary: A fussy eraser tries to keep the pages perfectly clean despite the scribbles of a mischievous pencil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AMASummary: Ben is a 23-year-old slacker who meets up and coming career girl Alison at a bar. They end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison meets him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby's sake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNOKusel, Susan
Summary: In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE KUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KUSYoussef, Bassem
Summary: Competing to design a new exhibit for the local museum, a sixth grade Egyptian immigrant is teased about her heritage by a newcomer, before an ancient amulet she wears imparts a hilarious and helpful secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholasic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YUSMacDonald, Suse.
Summary: Follow the leader and count the fish that live beneath the sea, then turn the book upside-down and count back down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2007
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MACYuksel, M. O.
Summary: "Come in and experience the sacred traditions of Ramadan, the Islamic month of mercy and blessings, with children and families from across the globe. From waking up early for suhoor and fasting from dawn to dusk to praying and preparing an iftar meal to be shared, Ramadan is a time of increased spirituality, gratitude, charity, and empathy for all"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YUKSummary: This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: "3-E student Isogai breaks the school rules by working part-time to help support his family. When Gakushu and rest of the Big Four students find out, they use his secret as leverage to force 3-E to participate in a bizarre sports-day competition. Soon it's time for the school's midterm competition as well, but when some 3-E students accidentally injure the elderly owner of a day...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ASSMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: English teacher Irina's assassination mentor makes an appearance and the two compete-- using special agent Karasuma as their target. Another transfer student/would-be assassain joins the class, accompanied by a guardian who claims to be Koro Sensei's ... little brother?! A tentacle showdown ensues, sending everyone into a tentacle tizzy. Then, the 3-E students face humiliation yet again during...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ASSMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: The students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who's just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth--unless they can kill him first! Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who's doing well in his classes but keeps...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014
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Summary: What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an "F" on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ASSMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: "The 3-E students discover that Koro Sensei's greatest weakness might be a common substance. Will they be able to use it to assassinate him while he helps Meg, formerly of the varsity swim team, with her greatest weakness? The next assassination attempt, implemented by Terasaka, is more elaborate but endangers his fellow students. Can he save them without saving his target? Then, the top class...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015
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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ASSMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. Now the lone survivor of his family and a fugitive, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he’ll have to do what he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAT (Graphic Novel)Yuksel, M. O.
Summary: A picture book featuring culturally rich artwork celebrates the joys, rituals, and traditions that are practiced in mosques throughout the world, and includes a glossary and information about many historical and significant mosques.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YUKLewis, Kristyn Kusek
Summary: Greyhill, Virginia, refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't, just got a few new residents. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, she thinks she knows what to expect. But Bess quickly discovers that fitting in is easier said than done.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018