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Dragon assassin / by Slade, Arthur G.(Arthur Gregory);
Carmen is at the top of the class at the Red Assassin School. She is an expert with bladed weapons and poisons, and is perfect at riding the giant black swans that assassins use for their missions. But, in a practice sword fight, her twin brother "accidentally" blinds her in one eye. She continues to train but drops to the bottom of her class. Still, she's sure she'll graduate. Then the nearby emperor is killed by an assassin and his replacement declares war on the assassin school itself. And worst of all Carmen discovers her brother may have betrayed them all on graduation night. In her desperation, she makes a life-altering pact with a dragon to save her school.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Dragons; Assassins; Brothers and sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rough sleepers : Dr. Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people / by Kidder, Tracy,author.;
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program includes clinics and a van on which Dr O'Connell and his staff ride through the Boston streets at night, offering outreach of medical care, socks, soup, and friendship to a marginalized community"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; O'Connell, James J. (James Joseph), 1948-; Homeless persons; Homeless persons; Homelessness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hundreds of Beavers. by Cheslik, Mike,film director.; Mancheski, Doug,actor.; Rico, Luis,actor.; Graves, Olivia,actor.; Brickson, Ryland,actor.; Tank, Wes,actor.; Filmhub, Inc. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Doug Mancheski, Luis Rico, Olivia Graves, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Wes TankOriginally produced by Filmhub, Inc. in 2022.In this wild and wacky black-and-white comedy, a drunken 19th-century applejack salesman finds himself up against an army of beavers after losing everything in a freak snowstorm. With no weapons or supplies, he's forced to rely on sheer cunning (and pure luck) to outsmart the beavers and survive in the wilderness. What follows is a madcap, slapstick battle of man versus nature, filled with zany antics and unexpected twists. Bursting with old-school physical comedy, this film is a rollicking ride through a frostbitten frontier.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Action and adventure films.; Silent films.;
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Judy Moody and the bad luck charm / by McDonald, Megan.; Reynolds, Peter,1961-;
The lucky penny in Judy's pocket seems to be working, and she intends to ride that wave of good fortune all the way to Washington.
Subjects: Moody, Judy (Fictitious character); Spelling bees; Families; Schools; Luck;
© 2013., Candlewick,
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Diary of a wimpy kid / by Kinney, Jeff,author,illustrator.; Ocampo, Ramon de,narrator.; Findaway World, LLC.,publisher.;
Narrated by Ramon De Ocampo.Grades 3 - 8."It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary. In book one of this debut series, Greg is happy to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's newfound popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion."
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Diary fiction.; Novels.; Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Middle schools; Friendship; Schools; Diaries; Socialization.; Children.; Humorous stories.;
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Messy roots [graphic novel] : a graphic memoir of a Wuhanese American / by Gao, Laura,author,illustrator.; Xu, Weiwei,illustrator,colourist.;
"After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Marsat least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name. In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter."--Provided by publisher.014+.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Graphic novels.; Personal narratives.; Gao, Laura; Chinese Americans; Immigrants; Lesbians; Sexual minority students;
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Hometown victory : a coach's story of football, fate, and coming home / by Lowe, Keanon,author.; Spizman, Justin,author.;
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood--leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak -- they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences -- from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way -- and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics - The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans - Keanon's journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lowe, Keanon.; Oregon Ducks (Football team); African American football coaches; African American football players; Football coaches; School shootings; School sports;
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The great Buck Howard [videorecording (DVD)] / by Blunt, Emily.; Goetzman, Gary,1952-; Hanks, Colin,1977-; Hanks, Tom.; Jay, Ricky.; Malkovich, John.; McGinly, Sean.; Neely, Blake.; Zahn, Steve,1968-; Bristol Bay Productions (Firm); Magnolia Pictures (Firm); Playtone (Firm); VVS Films.;
Director of photography, Tak Fujimoto ; editor, Myron Kerstein ; music, Blake Neely.John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Ricky Jay, Steve Zahn, Tom Hanks.Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assistant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in the American consciousness, taking Troy along for the ride of his life.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen; Dolby Digital, NTSC.
Subjects: Authors, American; College dropouts; Comedy films.; Extrasensory perception; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Men;
© c2009., VVS Films,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The 169-story treehouse : doppelganger doom! / by Griffiths, Andy,1961-; Denton, Terry.;
"Andy and Terry live in a 169-story treehouse. (It used to be a 156-story treehouse, but they've added 13 more stories.) It now has a kangaroo-riding range, a whatever-weather-you-want dome and a hall of funhouse mirrors--the perfect place to hide from the truancy officer who is trying to catch them and make them go to school! Unfortunately, the hall of funhouse mirrors is also the place where their evil trouble-making twins, Anti-Andy, Terrible Terry and Junkyard Jill live in a doppelgänger mirror, and they take advantage of the confusion to escape and wreak havoc in the treehouse. Can Andy, Terry, and Jill escape school, save the treehouse from the doppelgänger mirror gang and get their book written on time?"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Imagination; Tree houses; Authors; Doppelgängers; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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If onions could spring leeks / by Shelton, Paige.;
With summer tourists flocking to Broken Rope, locals volunteer to keep chaos to a minimum. Old West skits are running smoothly, actors are behaving, and stagecoach rides are more popular than ever, but when a spectral visitor appears by ghost train, it's a job only Betts and Gram can handle. Gram soon starts having nightmares about their ghostly visitor's demise. And if a ghost and the hot summer weather weren't making things sticky enough, one of the town's volunteers--a man notorious for having more than his fair share of ex-wives is murdered. When Jerome, Bett's otherworldly friend, makes an unsettling appearance, this simmering double mystery becomes a recipe for disaster.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Paranormal fiction.; Winston, Betts (Fictitious character); Murder; Cooking schools; Grandmothers; Ghosts; Cooks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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