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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In [this novel], Nora Seed finds herself faced ... with the possibility of changing her life for a new one: following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist. She must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 28
Language
English
Description
Herbalist China Bayles investigates the disappearance of the most valuable book at the Hemlock House Library, a haunted mountainside manor in North Carolina that houses a collection of rare gardening books.
Author
Series
Dinosaur volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur is going to one of his favorite places, the library, and on the way he encounters a series of animals, including a cow, baby chicks, a turtle, and an owl, and shares his roars with each.
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 8
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do you get when you mix adults, teenagers, children, seniors, professionals, parents, teachers, homeschool and the homeless! That very funniest of places, your local public library, home of the hugely popular comic strip Unshelved.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues -- a bee, a key, and a sword -- that lead...
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 4
Publisher
Overdue Media LLC
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fourth year of Unshelved including dozens of full-color Unshelved Book Club book talks, plus conference tips and a never-before-printed storytime as sung by Dewey.
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 9
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
These days information is easy to come by - too easy, perhaps. In the newest Unshelved collection our stalwart staff of library workers help Mallville's citizens make sense of it all, while dealing with their increasingly worrisome budget problems. Meanwhile Dewey's girlfriend Cathy has a big surprise for him, and his life will never be the same again!
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 7
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) : 27 cn,
Language
English
Description
Whether it's a Paranormal Romance front coming in from the North, colliding low-carb and low-fat cookbooks causing a whirlwind in the South, or a high-pressure get rich quick system building in the tri-state area, our news team is there with the reading recommendations you need. Featuring the latest daily and Sunday comic strips from Unshelved, your trusted source for library humor.
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 6
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
135 p. : ill. (some col.) : 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one gets asked questions more frequently than a librarian, and no librarian answers them with more attitude than Dewey! The latest Unshelved collection features a year's worth of daily comics and Conference Tips, plus the full-color Unshelved Book Club. Also features the Great Plastic Coffee Cup Lid Challenge between Unshelved and Sheldon, refereed by comics journalist Gary Tyrrell.
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 3
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
120 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third year of Unshelved plus 24 color pages: Empire County Strikes Back, an all-new graphic novelette! Can Mallville's librarians defeat the mother of all bookmobiles?
12) Unshelved
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 1
Publisher
Overdue Media LLC
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
127 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the Mallville Public Library they've seen it all. Like Naked Ned, who takes Freedom of Expression to new lengths. Or Merv, who does everything in the library but read. Or Buddy the Book Beaver, ex-con tree surgeon turned summer reading program mascot. Or the missing books that keep showing up on eBay. Or the amorous teenagers who won't take it outside. In all this chaos and insanity, who ya gonna call? Why, a librarian of course. But please...
13) Wild about books
Author
Series
Springfield Zoo volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
15) The lost library
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a mysterious Little Free Library guarded by a large orange cat appears overnight, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change.
Author
Language
English
Description
A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away. Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts. After all, she was a normal American herself once. That was a long time ago,...
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 2
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
What would Dewey do? collects the second year of the online comic strip Unshelved plus special bonus comics. Join our hero Dewey and his fellow librarians as they confront the FBI, psychic fairs, poetry slams, crashed hard drives, identity theft, and of course each other.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy visits a library on his way home from school. An old man takes the boy hostage and forces him to memorize a large number of books. The boy eventually realizes that the man plans to absorb the information he's memorized by eating his brain. With the help of a strange girl and a man dressed as a sheep, the captive devises an escape plan.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Desmond and Andres go to the Kersville Library for a school assignment, they encounter a ghost who insists they be quiet.
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