Summary: "Edited by New York Times best-selling author, Elizabeth Lim, this Twisted Tale anthology features sixteen twisted short stories with new takes on fan-favorite Disney films. Swoon as Ariel and Eric meet right after the Little Mermaid saves her prince; join Tiana and Naveen on a race to get back to Maldonia; take a ride on a pirate space ship with Jim Hawkins; and uncover just what power Tinker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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Summary: "From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems--from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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Summary: Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar caricatures fostered by popular culture, she tells the stories of Sicilian workers imported to replace the labor of freed slaves, the grim realities from which most immigrants came, the lynchings of Italian Americans, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LAUToorpakai, Maria
Summary: Coming from a Pakistani tribal region where women playing sports is forbidden, the author discusses how she passed as a boy in order to be an athlete, thus becoming a lightning rod for women's freedom in her country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TOORPAKAIHinojosa, Maria
Summary: Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago. For thirty years she has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media, documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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Summary: Presents a book of reflections for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 SHRColfer, Chris
Summary: Brystal Evergreen is running out of time. It's almost been a year since she made a deal with Death to find and destroy the Immortal in exchange for her life and she still hasn't found a single clue about who or where the Immortal is. To make matters worse, something dark and malignant has risen from deep within the earth that threatens life as we know it. To stop this new evil, the fairies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The Southern Kingdom is in the grip of Emperor Seven and his war on both magic, books, and learning; even worse, a malignant darkness is rising and threatening everybody, including Brystal Evergreen, who has gathered allies among the fairies and other magical creatures to confront the threat, but she is also aware that the days of her life are slipping away, and if she does not find the Book of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: Brystal and her friends have saved the world from the evil Snow Queen and secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community. However, when a mysterious new witch arrives at the academy, the celebrations are cut short. As the witch begins recruiting faeries into her rival school of witchcraft, it becomes clear she has dark intentions. And soon Brystal's friend Lucy becomes embroiled in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community but new threats arise, including the centuries-old Righteous Brotherhood that intends to exterminate all magical life, beginning with Brystal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Colfer 2020Summary: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.. Dickens' tragic tale of love, friendship, and sacrifice begins against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Using affecting dramatizations of key passages, Dickens experts Professor Margaret Reynolds and Professor John Rignall analyze the many nuances and themes of this work. Topics discussed include dualism in characterization and plot;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Matios, Maria
Summary: "The best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATSanders, Ed.
Summary: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheatmark 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0484 RODParrott-Ryan, Maria
Summary: "One night a scientist discovered something surprising in his own backyard : a flying squirrel that glowed bright pink! Follow along on an investigation into flying squirrels -- and other mammals -- that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J599 PARBailey, Maria T.
Contents: Taking aim at the mom market -- Talking about my generation -- Working it: mothers in the office -- Baby boomers: parenting pioneers -- Gen X marks the spot -- Generation Y not? -- Silver birds, gilded wallets -- Messages for moms -- Reaching the right moms the write way -- Getting moms buzzing through public relations -- Connecting with moms through brand experiences -- Moms online and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Trade Pub. 2005
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has always known she was destined for great things, that is, if she can survive the oppressive Southern Kingdom. The only escape she has are books, but since it's illegal for women to read in her country, she has to find creative ways of acquiring them. Working as a maid at her local library gives her the perfect excuse to be near them and allows her to sneak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: Selections from the poetry, prose, letters and journals of Rainer Rilke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.912 RILHammond, M. O. (Melvin Ormond)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd. 1926
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 HAMQuinn, Susan.
Summary: In this stunning and richly textured new biography, Susan Quinn presents us with a far more complicated picture of the woman we thought we knew. Drawing on family documents, Quinn sheds new light on the tragic losses and patriotic passion that infused Marie Sklodowska Curie's early years in Poland. And through access to Marie Curie's journal, closed to researchers until 1990, we hear in her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995