Weiner, Andrew
Summary: To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WEI (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Heikkilä, Cecilia
Summary: Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEIHenry, Patti Callahan
Summary: "In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from their home to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HEN (Peninsula book club kit 8 paperbacks)Suenaga, Yuki
Summary: Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Alvarez, Julia
Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVMiller, Ben
Summary: When she discovers a portal to a fairy tale world hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, she discovers these aren't the happy-ever-after tales she knows and loves, but are darker and more dangerous and the characters need her help in defeating an evil witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILTwin, Christopher
Summary: "After wandering out to the river near their homes, five teens decide to build a fire and exchange horror stories. Chad begins by telling the group about an unfortunate fisher who encountered a cluster of small, malevolent creatures while navigating the river in his canoe. Attempting to defend himself, Carl lashed out with an oar... and his world changed forever. One by one, the teens try to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emanata, an imprint of Conundrum Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 TWIAnatol, Giselle Liza
Summary: In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANAFenske, Jonathan
Summary: "According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?"--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FENSuenaga, Yuki
Summary: "Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUEHansen, Dustin
Summary: "A lifelong gamer with over 20-years experience in the gaming industry examines the storytelling skills in some of the most beloved and moving games of the past thirty years in this fun and informative YA non-fiction title"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 794.8 HANPatchett, Ann
Summary: "In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction PatchettAlvarez, Julia
Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALVDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DICBonilla, Lindsay
Summary: Griffin's grandmother showers him with love, encouragement, and a world of stories, all of which stand him in good stead when it is time for her to depart and he is left to tell his own stories--and hers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BONPechaček, Jared
Summary: "A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." -Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PECKang, Minsoo
Summary: "A history professor mourning his wife. His young protégé's search for a path forward. Four witty mountain gods with much to say and not enough time to listen. A gifted storyteller bringing a world into being out of thin air... Famous for his dispelling of the national myth, the Historian understands the power of narrative. He has inspired another young professor to search for her own truths,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODTorres, Justin
Summary: "Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Ariel and Tomah have lived in the city's intertribal housing complex all their lives. But for both of them, this Dagwaagin (Autumn) season is different than any before. From his bench outside the front door of his building, Tomah watches his community move around him. He is better at making people laugh than he is at schoolwork, but often it feels like his neighbor Ariel is the only one who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC QUIDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris "make the good and noble choice" (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend) and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DICSteinberg, Avi
Summary: "Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023