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Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / by Doerr, Anthony,1973-author.;
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers-another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Libraries; Space; Future, The;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Summer hours at the Robbers Library : a novel / by Halpern, Sue,author.;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Teenage girls; Middle-aged women; Intergenerational relations; Self-actualization (Psychology); Libraries;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dear reader : a love letter to libraries / by Rose, Tiffany.;
A voracious young reader pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories.Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Books and reading; Libraries; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library. by Chapman, Amanda.;
In this debut mystery from Amanda Chapman, book conservator Tory Van Dyne and a woman claiming to be Agatha Christie on holiday from the Great Beyond join forces to catch a killerLibrary Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The Cat Who Saved the Library A Novel [electronic resource] : by Natsukawa, Sosuke.aut; Kawai, Louise Heal.; CloudLibrary;
The long-awaited sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Cat Who Saved Books—an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl and the power of books to make a difference in the world. A chronic asthma condition prevents thirteen-year-old Nanami from playing sports or spending time with her friends after school. But nothing can stop her from one of her favorite activities. Nanami loves to read and happily spends much of her free time in the library, cocooned among the stacks. Then one day, Nanami notices that, despite the library being as deserted as ever, some of her favorite books, including literary classics like Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief and Anne of Green Gables are disappearing from the shelves. When she alerts the library staff, they dismiss her concerns. But just as Nanami is about to return to her reading, she spots a suspicious man in a gray suit. Eager to discover what he’s up to, she follows him. The chase is cut short when Nanami suffers an asthma attack. By the time she catches her breath, the man has disappeared and all that is left behind is a mysterious light filtering through the library’s familiar passageways. That’s when Tiger, the talking tabby cat who saves books, comes to the rescue. Are Nanami and Tiger prepared to face the dangerous challenges that lie ahead? Why are faceless gray soldiers burning books in a stone castle? And what happened to Rintaro, the socially withdrawn hero who helped Tiger save books in a second-hand bookshop? At a time of increased book bannings worldwide, Sosuke Natsukawa urges us not to underestimate the power of great literature—and to be prepared to defend our freedom to choose. Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai
Subjects: Electronic books.; Contemporary;
© 2025., HarperCollins,
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No pirates allowed! said Library Lou / by Greene, Rhonda Gowler.; Ajhar, Brian.;
Big Pirate Pete's treasure map has led him to Seabreezy Library, where Library Lou must convince him that the true treasure is the books.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Pirates; Librarians; Libraries; Books and reading; Treasure troves;
© c2013., Sleeping Bear Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Township of Innisfil Public Library community needs assessment study : a final report / by Fox Jones and Associates.;
Subjects: Innisfil (Ontario : Township). Library; Public libraries;
© 1989., Fox Jones and Associates,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The cat who saved the library : a novel / by Natsukawa, Sōsuke,1978-author.; Kawai, Louise Heal,translator.; translation of:Natsukawa, Sōsuke.Toshokan o sukutta neko.English.;
When a young library patron notices books missing in the library, Tiger, the talking tabby cat, comes to the rescue.
Subjects: Animal fiction.; Novels.; Books and reading; Books; Cats; Libraries; Lost articles; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Library for the war-wounded : a novel / by Helfer, Monika,1947-author.; Davidson, Gillian,translator.; translation of:Helfer, Monika,1947-Vati.English.;
"Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports readers to the aftermath of World War II, uncovering the life of Helfer's father, Josef. Born with the stigma of illegitimacy, he found solace in books, and his education was eventually funded by the Catholic Church. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front and returned from the war an amputee. He married his nurse and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a convalescent home for war-wounded. Josef was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter Monika, none was greater than his obsession with the home's unlikely and remarkable library, his great treasure and comfort as the country barrels away from the memory of war. He will stop at nothing to save it-even when it tears apart his family."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Libraries; Veterans; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heidi Heckelbeck and the lost library book / by Coven, Wanda.; Burris, Priscilla.;
"The Brewster Library has always been a magical place for kids in town. It has a story waiting for everyone. But imagine Heidi's surprise when Aunt Trudy lets her in on a well-kept secret: the Brewster Library has a real magic section! When Heidi checks out a title for a special project, she learns that you can't always judge a book by its cover. Especially when it's a bewitched book that loves to play pranks"--
Subjects: Lost articles; Libraries; Magic; Witches; Books;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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