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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
"After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision: to make the billboard his new home. Twelve-year-old Miguel is enchanted by his uncle's unusual living arrangement, but the neighborhood is buzzing with gossip, declaring Ramón a madman bringing shame to the community....
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Mickey Bolitar novels volume 2
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This action-packed second book in international bestseller Harlan Coben’s Mickey Bolitar young adult series follows Mickey as he continues to hunt for clues about the Abeona Shelter and the mysterious death of his father—all while trying to navigate the challenges of a new high school.
When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey and his loyal new friends—sharp-witted Ema and the adorkably charming Spoon—find
...6) Uncle Buck
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
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Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito's house for the entire break! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows, drinks fifteen cups of smoky tea a day, and lives inside a huge, mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among teetering, dusty shelves, he notices something odd: the books move on their own!...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Ari knows a lot of words for neighbors, including the pronouns each prefers, and with help from Uncle Lior, who always asks "What are your words," figures out which pronouns--and other words--fit best today.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Chloe is jealous and sad when her favorite uncle announces that he will be getting married, but as she gets to know Jamie better and becomes involved in planning the wedding, she discovers that she will always be special to Uncle Bobby--and to Uncle Jamie, too. This 2020 edition has all-new illustrations by Lucia Soto.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 32 cm
Description
Uncle Flores is the best tailor in the town of Pinbauê in Brazil. He used to make colourful costumes for the carnival, but nowadays he only makes grey uniforms for the factory workers. The houses are covered with dust from the factory, the river water is murky, and everything is drab. Edinho, his nephew, comes by every day after school to help cut and iron the cloth and listen to his uncle's stories. But when the factory tells Uncle Flores they...
11) Corazonadas
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Encontré la caja por pura casualidad; era pequeña y estaba firmemente atada con un cordel azul. Con marcador negro, en la tapa, tenía impreso el nombre del propietario: Paco. Así, sin apellidos, sin ninguna advertencia de no tocar o frágil o material peligroso. Dentro podría haber cualquier cosa, desde mariposas disecadas, un huevo de dinosaurio, el mapa de una isla misteriosa o una pluma de pájaro dodo. Sin embargo, contenía cuadernos....
12) C'mon c'mon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.
13) First Salmon
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Description
During the ceremony of First Salmon, an event celebrated by the Northwest Pacific tribes to honor and welcome back the salmon each year, Charlie remembers his beloved uncle and starts the process of accepting his death.
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Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
15) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
16) Tío Monarca
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Cuando se acerca Día de muertos, Lupita y tío Urbano les dan la bienvenida a las mariposas monarca, pues Urbano le ha contado a su sobrina que son la almas de los difuntos quienes regresan a visistar a sus familias. Este año, sin embargo, al retornar las monarcas desde el norte, las cosas han cambiado...
17) Emily's Fortune
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From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains. Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all alone except for her turtle, Rufus. What in blinkin' bloomers should Emily do? Emily's neighbors, Mrs. Ready, Mrs. Aim, and Mrs. Fire,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; map ; 23 cm
Description
"The 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver were an inspiring and culture-shifting event in the history of LGBTQ2S+ culture and visibility. That Vancouver Summer is a fiction which takes place in the midst of an event which is reconstructed with careful detail by an author who was there. This is a story of self-discovery and romance for young adult readers today -- but it will also engage adult readers of historical fiction, sports fiction, LGBTQ2S+ fiction,...
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