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The extinction of Irena Rey : a novel / by Croft, Jenniferauthor.;
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime molds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets-and deceptions-of Irena Rey's that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. This hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe's last great wildernesses.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Forests and forestry; Missing persons; Secrecy; Translators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Santa's new idea / by Pearson, Susan.; Chen, Nina,illustrator.;
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Subjects: Christmas stories.; Stories in rhyme.; Santa Claus; Toys;
© c2011., North-South Books,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bedtime in the forest / by Iwamura, Kazuo,1939-; Iwamura, Kazuo,1939-Yoruno tomodachi.English.;
The little squirrels, Mick, Mack and Molly, can't understand why they have to sleep at night when their friends the owl children are outside playing.
Subjects: Bedtime; Nocturnal animals; Owls; Play; Squirrels;
© c2010., North-South Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Friends / by Hout, Mies van.;
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Subjects: Monsters; Friendship;
© 2013, c2012., Lemniscaat,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Colette's lost pet / by Arsenault, Isabelle,1978-;
After moving to a new neighborhood, Colette is bored and lonely and when two kids show up, she tells a fib: she's lost her pet parakeet, suddenly every kid is involved in the search, but do they really believe her? Or, they just only pretend?LSC
Subjects: Girls; Pet loss; Moving, Household; Imagination; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A very merry Christmas / by Stilton, Geronimo.;
Geronimo heads to New York City to visit his family during Christmas, but his luggage gets switched with another mouse's, so he searches all over the Big Apple for the mouse.LSC
Subjects: Christmas stories.; Stilton, Geronimo; Mice; Lost articles; Luggage; Christmas;
© [2008], c2007., Scholastic,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The ice child / by Läckberg, Camilla,1974-author.; Läckberg, Camilla,1974-Lejontämjaren.English.; Nunaly, Tiina.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Hedström, Patrik (Fictitious character); Detectives; Murder; Police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Hunger : the oldest problem / by Caparrós, Martín,1957-author.; translation of:Caparrós, Martín,1957-Fame.English.; Silver, Katherine,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references."An up-to-the-minute global investigation of famine and the persistent issues the keep most of the world hungry. By one of Latin America's most famous and formidable journalists comes a book for the ages. In HUNGER, award-winning author Martin Caparros goes in search of why, in the 21st century, most of the world's inhabitants still go hungry daily and to do this he travels to places where food is scarce -- Niger and Northern India, as well as to the cattle grounds of Argentina, the world's biggest beef exporter, and on to the Chicago Food Bank to learn more about the power of food distributors"--
Subjects: Food supply.; Hunger.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tintin in America / by Hergé,1907-1983.;
Tintin visits the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the wild West.LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Mystery comic books, strips, etc.; Tintin (Fictitious character); Journalists; Adventure and adventurers; Organized crime;
© 2011, c1978., Little, Brown,
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Peter and the tree children / by Wohlleben, Peter,1964-; Atkinson, Cale.; Billinghurst, Jane,1958-;
Join Piet the squirrel and Peter the Forester in their search for tree children in the forest and learn about amazing facts about trees.LSC
Subjects: Nature stories.; Loneliness; Squirrels; Foresters; Forests and forestry; Trees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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