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Author

Weeks, Sara

Language

English

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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
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Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems-- but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.

2) So B. It

Author

Weeks, Sarah

Series

So B. it volume 1

Language

English

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K&T - Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
Staff Picks May 2021

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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....

3) Us weekly

Language

English

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eMagazine, Magazine

4) The Week Magazine

Series

The Week Magazine

Language

English

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eMagazine, Magazine

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The Week makes sense of the news by curating the best of the U.S. and international media into a succinct, lively digest.

5) The Week Junior

Series

The Week Junior

Language

English

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eMagazine, Magazine

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"When you are young, you’re naturally curious about the world and everything in it. But the world seems made for grown-ups; complex and unknowable. That’s why we’ve created The Week Junior. It explains the news and events in ways that children understand; immediate, colourful, exciting. From news to nature, science to geography, and sport to books, The Week Junior explores an extraordinary array of topics from around the globe. Written

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6) The publishers weekly

Language

English

7) Bloomberg Businessweek

Language

English

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eMagazine, Magazine

8) Three weeks with my brother

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

Language

English

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Count Down To New Years
OBD National Siblings Day (April 10) - ADULT

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In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week-trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. As they travel the globe, the intimate story of their family unfolds in the details of the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world, the Sparks brothers band together...

9) New York Magazine

Series

New York Magazine

Language

English

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eMagazine, Magazine

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CULTURE, POLITICS, FOOD, FASHION: A NEW YORK POINT OF VIEW. With assertive reporting and sophisticated design, New York chronicles the people and events that shape the city that shapes the world.

10) The New Yorker

Series

The New Yorker

Language

English

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2022 Most Checked Out by Cardholders - Adult Titles

Formats

eMagazine, Magazine

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Founded in 1925, The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine, for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration. The New Yorker takes readers beyond the weekly print magazine with the web, mobile, tablet, social media, and signature events. The New Yorker is at once a classic and at the leading edge.

11) Newsweek

Series

Newsweek

Language

English

Formats

eMagazine, Magazine

Description

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Newsweek magazine has a long-standing tradition of providing readers with the most updated information on the most pressing issues affecting our nation and world today. Newsweek is able to fill the gaps when a story has passed and is able to come up with insight or synthesis that connects the cracking, confusing digitals dots in today's fast paced news cycle.

12) A week in winter

Author

Binchy, Maeve

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Language

English

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Holiday Romance
Tuesdays With Friends

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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome...

13) My week with him

Author

Goffney, Joya

Language

English

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"Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career... After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince...

14) Billboard Magazine

Series

Billboard Magazine

Language

English

Formats

eMagazine, Magazine

Description

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Written for music industry professionals and fans. Contents provide news, reviews and statistics for all genres of music, including radio play, music video, related internet activity and retail updates.

15) Four thousand weeks :time management for mortals

Author

Burkeman, Oliver

Language

English

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National Stress Awareness Day
National Wellness Month
Speed Dating with Books

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"A lively philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life"--

16) Clementine, Friend of the Week

Author

Pennypacker, Sara

Series

Clementine volume 4
Clémentine volume 4

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Pre-loaded Audio

Description

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With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

17) People

Language

English

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Top Checkouts

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"The editorial focus of this magazine is on the compelling personalities of today both famous and infamous, ordinary and extraordinary. It is a guide to who and what are hot in the arts, science, business, politics, television, movies, books, music and sports. published weekly".

18) Two weeks

Author

Kingsbury, Karen

Series

Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume 7
Wheeler Publising large print hardcover

Language

English

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Count Down To New Years

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...