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The reptile room / by Snicket, Lemony; Helquist, Brett;
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Subjects: Orphans; Brothers and sisters; Humorous stories;
© c1999., HarperTrophy,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Phoenix Island / by Dixon, John,1969-author.;
When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.
Subjects: Survival; Mercenary troops; Boxing; Orphans; Science fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science / by McKinnon, Kate,1984-; Cáceres, Alfredo,1983-;
So, you want to be a young mad scientist. Congratulations! Admitting it is the first step. The second step is reading the (definitely true) tale of the Porch sisters... Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee Porch do not belong. They don't belong in the snooty town of Antiquarium, where all girls have to go to etiquette school and the only dog allowed is the bichon frise. They don't belong with their adoptive family, where all their cousins are named Lavinia and their Aunt has more brooches than books. And they certainly don't belong at Mrs. Wintermacher's etiquette school--they're far more interested in science. After getting kicked out of the last etiquette school that would take them, the girls expect to be sent away for good... until they receive a mysterious invitation to new school. Suddenly the girls are under the tutelage of the infamous Millicent Quibb--a mad scientist with worms in her hair and oysters in her bathtub. At 231 Mysterium Way, the pizza is fatal, the bus is powered by Gerbils, and the Dean of Students is a hermit crab. Dangerous? Yes! More fun than they've ever had? Absolutely! But when the sisters are asked to save their town from an evil cabal of nefarious mad scientists, they must learn to embrace what has always made them stand out, and determine what side they're on--before it's too late!
Subjects: Orphans; Sisters; Scientists; Schools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Woman of interest : a memoir / by O'Neill, Tracy,author.;
"A National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first nonfiction work: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her birth mother and learning the power of self-knowledge"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; O'Neill, Tracy.; Birthmothers; Orphans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Before I wake [videorecording] / by Flanagan, Mike,film director.; Bosworth, Kate,1983-actor.; Jane, Thomas,actor.; Tremblay, Jacob,actor.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay.A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Horror films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Adoptive parents; Orphans; Children's nightmares;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In a rocket made of ice : among the children of Wat Opot / by Gutradt, Gail.;
"A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia--a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children's Community. Begun with just $50 in the pocket of Wayne Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodia's verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDs could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new family--a place that Gutradt calls "a workshop for souls." Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place, and of one woman's transformation in trying to help them. With wry perceptiveness and stunning humanity and humor, this courageous, surprising, and evocative memoir etches the people of Wat Opot forever on your heart"--Provided by publisher."The story of a woman who volunteers at an orphanage in Cambodia, set up by a Vietnam War vet for children with and/or orphaned by HIV/AIDS"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Children of AIDS patients; HIV-positive children; Orphanages; Orphans; Orphans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fireborne / by Munda, Rosaria.;
Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Dragons; Orphans; Government, Resistance to; Military education;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unveiling the past : a novel / by Sawyer, Kim Vogel,author.;
"Newlyweds and cold case detectives Sean and Meghan Eagle have been given the task of investigating the twenty-years-past disappearance of a husband and father, Anson Menke. A judge ruled that the missing man chose to leave the country and abandon his family, but his wife wouldn't concede that he left his family nor declare him dead. Their mother now gone, his children want answers"--
Subjects: Religious fiction.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Orphans; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Anne of Green Gables [videorecording] / by Ballentine, Ella,actor.; Botsford, Sara,1951-actor.; Harrison, John Kent,television director.; Lalonde, Julia,actor.; Sheen, Martin,actor.; Television adaptation of (work) :Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Ella Ballentine, Martin Sheen, Sara Botsford, Julia Lalonde, Amelia Byrnes-lewis, Jaime Feggi.A new adaptation of the classic series, the film is set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.G.DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9); stereophonic.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); Country life; Orphans;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The wild robot [videorecording] / by Nighy, Bill,1949-voice actor.; Nyong'o, Lupita,voice actor.; O'Hara, Catherine,voice actor.; Pascal, Pedro,voice actor.; Sanders, Chris,1962-film director,screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Brown, Peter,1979-Wild robot.; DreamWorks Animation,production company.; Universal Studios, Inc.,film distributor.;
Voices: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames.The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot, Rozzum unit 7134, 'Roz' for short, that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for action/peril and thematic elements.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Goslings; Friendship; Islands; Island ecology; Orphaned animals; Robots; Wilderness survival;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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