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How to party like a snail / by Hrab, Naseem.; Collier, Kelly.;
Snail is a party animal. Well ... kind of. He especially appreciates the quiet things about parties, like confetti, using his indoor voice, and softly blowing out birthday candles. But parties tend to get pretty loud, and that's when Snail disappears into his shell. But not to worry! Snail still has fun at parties - it's just that from inside his shell nobody can tell he's having a good time. And this means he doesn't get many party invitations ... So Snail decides to throw himself his very own quiet party. He plays hide-and-hide, he sways to his favourite lullabies, and enjoys a nice mug of warm milk. But that night, as he tucks himself in a blanket burrito, he starts to feel like something is missing. And that's when Stump, who's been there the whole time, chimes in with a suggestion. In the end, Snail realizes that he really does love parties, just not he rowdy ones. He and Stump put on their jammies, turn the lullabies down low, and "celebrate the shush" in their own quiet way.Ages 4-7.Grades K-1.LSC
Subjects: Snails; Parties; Introverts;
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How quickly she disappears / by Fleischmann, Raymond,author.;
"The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense, set in the relentless Alaskan landscape, about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family ... My proposition is very simple: I am going to ask you for three gifts, and for each gift you deliver, I will take you one step closer to Jacqueline. It's been twenty years since Elisabeth watched her twin sister, Jacqueline, disappear without a trace. Now thirty-year-old Elisabeth is living far from home in a small Alaskan town. She's in a loveless marriage and has a precocious young daughter she loves more than anything but who reminds her too much of her long-missing sister. Elisabeth's loneliness--and guilt--grows more unbearable each day. But through it all, she clings to the impossible belief that her sister is still alive and that they'll be reunited. But then Alfred, a dangerous stranger with a plan of his own, arrives in town and commits an inexplicable act of violence. And he offers a startling revelation: He knows exactly what happened to Elisabeth's sister, but he'll reveal this truth only if Elisabeth fulfills three requests. Increasingly isolated from her neighbors and imprisoned by the bitter cold and her own obsession, Elisabeth can almost hear her sister's voice saying, Come and get me. And so she will, even if it means putting herself--and her family--in danger"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing persons; Twin sisters; Women;
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The Sisters Sweet : a novel / by Weiss, Elizabeth,1984-author.;
"All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her twin sister, Josie. As "The Sisters Sweet," they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious father and managed by their practical mother, who were once theatrical stars in their own rights. Then, in an explosive act, Josie exposes the fraud in a spectacular fashion and runs away to Hollywood. The family retreats to Chicago, where Harriet must figure out how to live out of the spotlight--and her sister's shadow. Striving to keep her struggling family afloat, Harriet molds herself into the perfect daughter. But she also begins to form her first relationships outside her family. As Josie's star rises and as the Szászes fall on hard times, Harriet must decide whether to honor her mother, her father, or the self she's only beginning to get to know. Full of long-simmering tensions, buried secrets, questionable saviors, and broken promises, this is ultimately a story about how we are beholden to others and what we owe ourselves, and heralds the arrival of an accomplished new voice in fiction"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Identity (Psychology); Twin sisters; Vaudeville;
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Cars. [videorecording] / by Larry,the Cable Guy,voice actor.; Alonzo, Cristela,voice actor.; Cooper, Chris,1951-voice actor.; Fee, Brian,film director.; Fillion, Nathan,1971-voice actor.; Hammer, Armie,1986-voice actor.; Hunt, Bonnie,voice actor.; Magliozzi, Ray,voice actor.; Murray, Kiel,screenwriter.; Peterson, Bob,1961-screenwriter.; Reher, Kevin,film producer.; Rich, Mike,1959-screenwriter.; Shalhoub, Tony,1953-voice actor.; Washington, Kerry,1977-voice actor.; Wilson, Owen,1968-voice actor.; Pixar (Firm),production company.; Walt Disney Pictures,presenter,publisher.;
Music by Randy Newman.Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Chris Cooper, Nathan Fillion, Larry The Cable Guy, Armie Hammer, Ray Magliozzi, Tony Shalhoub, Bonnie Hunt, Kerry Washington.Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Automobile racing; Automobiles, Racing; Friendship;
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Sunrise Highway [sound recording] / by Blauner, Peter,author.; Fliakos, Ari,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ari Fliakos."From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls "one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature," comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her, but to make her pay. In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Women detectives; Murder;
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Cars. [videorecording] / by Larry,the Cable Guy,voice actor.; Caine, Michael,voice actor.; Fogelman, Dan,screenwriter.; Izzard, Eddie,voice actor.; Lasseter, John,screenwriter,film director.; Lewis, Brad(Bradford),film director,screenwriter.; Mortimer, Emily,voice actor.; Queen, Ben,screenwriter.; Ream, Denise,film producer.; Turturro, John,1957-voice actor.; Wilson, Owen,1968-voice actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Pixar (Firm),production company.; Walt Disney Pictures,production company.; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.;
Art director, Jay Shuster ; editor, Stephen Schaffer ; music, Michael Giacchino.Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Emily Mortimer, Michael Caine, Eddie Izzard.Star racecar Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship on the road from Radiator Springs to exciting new places when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours, and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, 5.1 ES, 2.0 DVS ; DTS-HD HR Digital surround 7.1 ; English Near Field Mix 2.0.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Automobiles, Racing; Espionage; Friendship; Spies;
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Away in a manger / by Bowen, Rhys.;
"It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now: she and Daniel have a baby son and twelve-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen to carolers in the street, they hear a lovely voice, the voice of an angel, and see a beggar girl huddled in a doorway, singing "Away in a Manger." Bridie is touched by the girl's ragged clothes and wants to help her out if they can. They give her a quarter, only to watch a bigger boy take it from her. But Molly discovers the boy is the girl's older brother. They've come from England and their mother has disappeared, and they're living with an aunt who mistreats them terribly. Molly quickly realizes that these children are not the usual city waifs. They are well-spoken and clearly used to better things. So who are they? And what's happened to their mother? As Molly looks for a way to help the children and for the answers to these questions, she gets drawn into an investigation that will take her up to the highest levels of New York society. This is another compelling and richly drawn mystery from New York Times bestseller Rhys Bowen"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Murphy, Molly (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
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My name is Yip / by Crewe, Paddy,author.;
"A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, for readers of Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voice It's 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, when Yip Tolroy--mute, medical anomaly, and social outcast--is born. His father has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother: a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and runs a general store. She struggles to manage his needs, leaving Yip to find the means of asserting himself in an unforgiving, hostile environment. With the help of a retired doctor, he begins to transform his life by learning to read and write, his portal into the community a piece of slate and a supply of chalk. And then at the age of fifteen, Yip's life is altered irrevocably. In the space of a few days he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous crime. Thrust unwittingly into a world of violence and sin, Yip and Dud are forced to leave town and embark on an odyssey that will introduce them to the wonder and horror of the American frontier until the revelation of a secret means they must return to Heron's Creek and the fate that awaits them. With its colorful description of people and places, comic backbone, and compelling narrator, My Name Is Yip is a bold adventure--a gripping tale of courage, struggle, hope, and brotherhood--that reckons with the seductive pull of the American South and its dark and complex histories"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Fugitives from justice; Gold mines and mining; Mute persons;
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And then he sang a lullaby / by Somtochukwu, Ani Kayode,author.;
"A searingly honest and resonant debut from a Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia. The inaugural title in the most buzzed-about new imprint of recent years, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a powerful, luminous debut that establishes its young author as a masterful talent. August is a God-fearing track star who leaves Enugu City to attend university and escape his overbearing sisters. He carries the weight of their lofty expectations, the shame of facing himself, and the haunting memory of a mother he never knew. It's his first semester and pressures aside, August is making friends and doing well in his classes. He even almost has a girlfriend. There's only one problem: he can't stop thinking about Segun, an openly gay student who works at a local cybercafé. Segun carries his own burdens and has been wounded in too many ways. When he meets August, their connection is undeniable, but Segun is reluctant to open himself up to August. He wants to love and be loved by a man who is comfortable in his own skin, who will see and hold and love him, exactly as he is. Despite their differences, August and Segun forge a tender intimacy that defies the violence around them. But there is only so long Segun can stand being loved behind closed doors, while August lives a life beyond the world they've created together. And when a new, sweeping anti-gay law is passed, August and Segun must find a way for their love to survive in a Nigeria that was always determined to eradicate them. A tale of rare bravery and profound beauty, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is an extraordinary debut that marks Ani as a voice to watch"--
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Novels.; College students; Gay men; Homophobia;
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Scooby-Doo. [videorecording] : original movie / by DeLisle, Grey,voice actor.; Langdale, Candie Kelty,screenwriter.; Langdale, Doug,screenwriter.; Lillard, Matthew,1970-voice actor.; Micucci, Kate,voice actor.; Peters, Matthew,film director.; Welker, Frank,voice actor.; Hanna-Barbera Productions,presenter.; Warner Bros. Animation,presenter.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci.Scooby gang visits a haunted town. The mystery only deepens when it's discovered that the ghost is also the long lost relative of Shaggy Rogers!Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Haunted places; Criminal investigation;
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