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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
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2018.
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English
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"Acker navigates her characters' lives with humor, heart, and grace. I loved these stories."--Lisa Ko This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"--with lessons on gentrification and respectability- and fight to create their own...
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"A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze between the bars covering the windows. The daughter of a German soldier, Gretl understands very little about how her grandmothers Jewishness brought her first to the ghetto, then to the train, and now, to...
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2017.
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228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Presents a young reader's version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
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2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
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English
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"Out with the old and in with the new! Family physician Dr. Todd Spector presents a fresh and outrageously fun way to encourage little girls to give up their diapers. They can try it fresh-air style (in the backyard!), or use the potty with the help of a few props and plenty of imagination. Peeing in the potty is a lot more fun if you do it princess style, dance-party style, or gymnast style! Inspired by Dr. Spector's own experiences potty training...
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2015.
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351 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"¿Estabas en el tren de las 8.04? ¿Viste algo sospechoso? Rachel, sÃ. Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas... y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un dÃa ve algo....
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2017.
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English
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"Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed-up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful...
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2017
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English
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This young readers' edition of Christina Baker Kline's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman.
Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author's note and archival photos from the orphan train era. This book is especially perfect for mother/daughter reading groups.
Molly Ayer has
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2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Follow twins Jasmine and Jack on their potty training journey! This charming board book for toddlers is a humorous telling of the ups and downs of toilet training, helping teach hygiene practices, positive reinforcement, and that it's okay when little accidents happen" --
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[2017]
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2 videodiscs (1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
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2009
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A professional introduction into ballet for young girls. Features dancers Oleg Usenko and Natalia Zemtzova as they teach warm ups, stretching, dance steps, plies, battement tendus, rondes de jambe par terres, adages, allegros, grands battements, and more.
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[date of publication not identified]
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1 videodisc (80 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a documentary filmmaker boards a train heading to upstate New York he meets a mysterious woman who leads him on a very different journey from what he anticipated.
18) Afterglow
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[2003]
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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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[2017]
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4 audio discs (4 hr., 34 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker. But from the very moment they meet,...
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