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Noon Book Club November 5 at 12PM This group meets the first Wednesday of the month in the Library. Pick up a copy of the book at the Customer Service Desk. |
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The distance between us : a memoir
by Reyna Grande
The American Book Award-winning author of Across a Hundred Mountains traces her experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing how her parents' dreams of better opportunities for their family were marked by her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education and the inspiration of Latina authors. 30,000 first printing.
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The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan--his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home--in a newly illustrated edition of a tale first published forty years ago.
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Every Man a King
by Walter Mosley
NYPD investigator Joe King Oliver is tested when asked by his billionaire friend to defend a White nationalist who has been accused of murder, in the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Down the River Unto the Sea.
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The Field Guide
by Tony DiTerlizzi
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
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When Stars are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson
A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
by Shirley Hughes
When her dad remarries an evil woman who forces her to make dresses for her stepsisters, Ella Cinders finds a friend in a fairy godmother who helps make all her dreams come true one magical night, in a modern-day twist to the classic Cinderella tale.
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The Korean Cinderella
by Shirley Climo
Mistreated by a cruel stepmother who forces her to perform difficult tasks, Pear Blossom finds help from her fairy godmother, who appears to her in the form of tokgabis, special magical creatures.
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Cinderella Skeleton
by Robert D. San Souci
The most hideous ghoul in the land, Cinderella Skeleton is scorned by her cruel stepsisters, but with the help of a good witch she is able to attend the Halloween Ball, where she steals the heart of Prince Charnel.
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Cinderella Penguin, or, The little glass flipper
by Janet Perlman
When Cinderella Penguin waddles into the ball, she is bullied by her evil stepsisters, who are envious of her dainty flippers, but it take more than some fancy footwear to turn the penguin into a princess, so the Great Fairy Penguin comes to the rescue
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Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
by Charles Perrault
Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.
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Cendrillon : a Caribbean Cinderella
by Robert D. San Souci
A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale is set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love.
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