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Best of 2023 - Fiction
Carol Shields Prize Longlist 2024
Indigenous People's Month Adult
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Carol Shields Prize Longlist 2024
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"From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.... Sissy, born 1961: Sissy's relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is also filled with beautiful things, including a new Christmas present,...
83) The boy
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Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's eight-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually...
84) The loose tooth
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Barbie and her sisters help Chelsea deal with her first loose tooth in this brand-new series that focuses on the special moments in a young girl's life. This full-color storybook features two press-out keepsake tooth fairy envelopes that girls can assemble and decorate with the included stickers.
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"Nana's nesting dolls are all exactly the same. White frills, rosy cheeks, and six perfect smiles. Except for the smallest one--unpainted, it is a raw peanut. So she decides to pull out her markers and give it a face. But then, looking at the others, she realizes all of their perfectly matching smiles don't feel quite right. She has many faces for each of her emotions. So, she decides to use her marker to fix them too. But, when Nana sees her dolls,...
86) Ungifted
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
88) Lego
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"Engaging images accompany information about LEGO. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8." --
89) Polar
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A teddy bear's exploits in his toboggan bring him injury, but also the attention of kind friends.
90) Coppélia
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A dollmaker cleverly schemes to pass his most beautiful doll off as a real girl, but he is outwitted by the townspeople he tries to deceive.
91) Louis
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Tired of the "dangerous adventures" with his human boy, a teddy bear decides to run away but reconsiders when bedtime arrives.
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ARRGH You Ready to Read?
Cookie Books for Kids
December Holidays for Kids
OBD Christmas Picture books - Youth
Cookie Books for Kids
December Holidays for Kids
OBD Christmas Picture books - Youth
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When Jim's gingerbread pirate, Captain Cookie, comes alive, the tasty treat prepares to battle Santa Claus, who like to eat cookies on Christmas Eve.
What if a brave Captain Cookie stood up to Santa?
93) Frozen Charlotte
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The haunting starts even before Sophie arrives on the Isle of Skye to spend the summer with her cousins, but when she arrives she finds a house haunted by the ghost of a girl who attended school there a hundred years ago, as well as cousin Rebecca who died young and is never mentioned by her family--and she must somehow solve the mystery of the frozen Charlotte dolls before the whole family is destroyed.
95) Horse show champ
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Barbie's horse is scared to jump. But Barbie knows that a true champ never gives up!
96) Leaf dance
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The leaves are falling. The air is cold, and Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy are having a party! Join the dolls for a fun first day of fall.
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Jasmine Toguchi volume 4
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Jasmine makes a wish for a pet flamingo on the special daruma doll her grandmother sent from Japan, then sets out to prove herself responsibile enough for a pet.
99) DOLL-E 1.0
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Charlotte has a talent for anything technological, so when she receives a doll as a present, she upgrades it with a few spare parts and some code to create a new and improved friend.
100) Cuckoo song
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In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something's terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family.
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