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The Longest Night
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2024On the shortest day of the year, communities come together to celebrate and savor every ray of light.Catalogue Item
2019A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit…Catalogue Item
2024"The busy animals of Acorn Village know all about being cozy. In the charming woodland village, each and every home is full of comfy nooks for fun activities, snug spots for sleeping, and wide…Catalogue Item
2024"With jewellike die-cuts revealing the colors of the season against soft painterly backgrounds, Caldecott Honoree Aaron Becker captures the light of winter skies and lengthening days, the glow of…Catalogue Item
2024"Our young narrator doesn’t like itchy hats or cold wind, and she especially doesn’t like going places she’s never been before. But she reluctantly agrees to join her mom at an ice festival, where…Catalogue Item
2022"Winter is a wonderful time to get creative! Let's make walnut reindeer on skis, a bright bird feeder, a bendy polar bear, and much more! This book will encourage you to get outdoors, gather awesome…
Reading the Four Elements (Sort of!)
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2025"Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness -- desire and resistance -- is passed down through generations. In 1948, Tareq's grandmother, Eva,…Catalogue Item
Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead2025"[A] look at that most elemental force, water, and through Indigenous stories, tradition, and thinking, suggest[ing] a powerful path for the future. For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took…Catalogue Item
Building the Dams, Mines and Megaprojects That Run Our World2025"This Rare Earth is a graphic account of twenty-five years working for some of the largest mining and engineering companies in the world. Much of this work was conducted in in conflict zones where…Catalogue Item
The Triumph and Tumult of NPR2025"An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires. Founded in 1970, NPR is…
Sophie Kinsella 1969-2025
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A Novel2019'Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift…Catalogue Item
A Novel2023"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen…Catalogue Item
A Novel2024"Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the…Catalogue Item
A Novel2020"Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a…
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