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The ICPL Friends Foundation celebrates the library's Bright Future on April 11. Enjoy one of these hopeful novels this month!

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Be here to love me at the end of the world
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The booklover's library : a novel
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The revisioners : a novel
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Loved and missed
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The fortunes of jaded women : a novel
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The lies of the Ajungo
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The revivalists : a novel
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Nineteen steps : a novel
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American dirt
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Made in Manhattan
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Velorio : a novel
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Deep dish
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Invisible kitties : a feline study of fluid mechanics or the spurious incidents of the cats in the night-time
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Comfort & joy : a fable
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A million aunties : a novel
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Margaret and the mystery of the missing body
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Probably Ruby : a novel
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Yoke of stars : a Birdverse book
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Dinosaurs : a novel
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Between the sound and sea : a novel
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The suite spot
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The museum of human history : a novel
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A man called Ove : a novel
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The help
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The endless beach : a novel
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Life after : a novel
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A beginning at the end
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Guy's girl
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Five little Indians
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The delight of being ordinary : a road trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama

Share the love of poetry with your littles.

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Slickety quick : poems about sharks
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Over the hills and far away : a treasury of nursery rhymes
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Miguel y su valiente caballero : el joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote
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Hypnotize a tiger : poems about just about everything
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Never forgotten
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Where I live : poems about my home, my street, and my town
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Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile
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Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
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Pug and other animal poems
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La Madre Goose : nursery rhymes for los niños
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My Mother Goose : a collection of favorite rhymes, songs, and concepts
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Poems I wrote when no one was looking
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Vezhlivyĭ slon : stikhi
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Mother Goose goes to India
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The real Dada Mother Goose : a treasury of complete nonsense
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The water critters
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Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué rico! : Americas' sproutings
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Cock-a-doodle-doo! : barnyard hullabaloo
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Arroz con leche : un poema para cocinar = Rice pudding : a cooking poem
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Tomie dePaola's More Mother Goose favorites.
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Marshmallow clouds : two poets at play among figures of speech
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After the bell rings : poems about after-school time
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The pumpkin seed's secret : a life cycle poem
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The book of not entirely useful advice
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An egret's day
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Queer and fearless : poems celebrating the lives of LGBTQ+ heroes
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The frogs wore red suspenders
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Lullaby : for a black mother
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We, the curious ones

Love thy mother

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Wild at heart : America's turbulent relationship with nature, from exploitation to redemption
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Fire and flood : a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present
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Apocalypse never : why environmental alarmism hurts us all
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After lockdown : a metamorphosis
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Climate of hope : how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet
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A road running southward : following John Muir's journey through an endangered land
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The power of crisis : how three threats--and our response--will change the world
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The climate conscious gardener
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Leave it as it is : a journey through Theodore Roosevelt's American wilderness
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Losing Eden : our fundamental need for the natural world and its ability to heal body and soul
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Coming to land in a troubled world : essays
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The weight of nature : how a changing climate changes our brains
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1,001 voices on climate change : everyday stories of flood, fire, drought and displacement from around the world
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The world without us
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This America of ours : Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the forgotten fight to save the wild
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Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays
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The water will come : rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world
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Solvable : how we healed the Earth, and how we can do it again
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Are we screwed? : how a new generation is fighting to survive climate change
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Intertwined : women, nature, and climate justice
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Thank you for being late : an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
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Fossil future : why global human flourishing requires more oil, coal, and natural gas--not less
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The atlas of a changing climate : our evolving planet visualized with more than 100 maps, charts, and infographics
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Outsmart waste : the modern idea of garbage and how to think our way out of it
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America's infrastructure and the green economy
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Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
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The book of hope : a survival guide for trying times
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Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret
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How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need
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California burning : the fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and what it means for America's power grid
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Otter carries on book cover
Otter carries on book cover

Otter carries on

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Kids, Picture Books, Animals, Nature, Philosophy, Self Help

"Otter loves floating and collecting pretty, heavy rocks all by themself. When a storm comes, Otter has so many rocks that they can't swim home -- and soon, they're lost at sea. But when a few rocks accidentally slip away, Otter feels -- lighter. And with the help of a new friend,...

CMaynard's picture

Otters, friendship, and adventures at sea! Maya Tatsukawa's latest picture book, Otter Carries On, is gorgeous and a nice conversation starter about letting things go. -Casey
The triumphant rhinoceros book cover
The triumphant rhinoceros book cover

The triumphant rhinoceros

Jane Kurtz

j599.668 Kurtz
Kids, Nonfiction, Animals, Science, Travel

Captain Van der Meer turns an orphaned rhinocerous named Clara into a sensation, traveling all over Europe and changing how people think about her species. Based on a true story. Includes author's note.

awilmoth's picture

Fascinating story with really cool illustrations about one Dutch sea captain's efforts to bring an exotic, exciting, never-before-seen rhino around to the people of Europe! -Anne W
Little Witch Hazel : a year in the forest book cover
Little Witch Hazel : a year in the forest book cover

Little Witch Hazel : a year in the forest

Phoebe Wahl

jE Wahl
Adventure, Kids, Picture Books, Animals

"Little Witch Hazel is a tiny witch who lives in the forest, helping creatures big and small. She's a midwife, an intrepid explorer, a hard worker and a kind friend. In this four-season volume, Little Witch Hazel rescues an orphaned egg, goes sailing on a raft, solves the mystery of a...

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I really love Phoebe Wahl's artwork, and this makes reading her books even more enjoyable. In this book, we follow the character Little Witch Hazel as she adventures through the forest, meeting many adorable critters in even more adorable outfits along the way! -Violette
Shadows on the ice : the 1972 Andes disaster book cover
Shadows on the ice : the 1972 Andes disaster book cover

Shadows on the ice : the 1972 Andes disaster

Frédéric Bertocchini

982.6 /Bertocchini
Graphic Novels

"On a fateful Friday the 13th in October 1972, a plane traveling from Uruguay to Chile, carrying a young rugby team, crashed in an inaccessible area in the heart of the Andes Mountains. For many weeks, the survivors had to endure intense cold, biting hunger, thirst, and the despair of being...

csmith's picture

It's been long enough that there have been several books and films published about this event, but this is the first graphic novel I've seen. The combination of image and words lends itself nicely to the telling. The brevity of panels and speech bubbles means that word choice is important, and the story gets relayed in a more direct, yet artistic and poetic way--less detail means often more impact in this instance. -Candice
Sunrise on the reaping book cover
Sunrise on the reaping book cover

Sunrise on the reaping

Suzanne Collins

YOUNG ADULT FICTION Collins Suzanne
Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction

"As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear gripsthe districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares...

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Suzanne Collins returns to the world of Panem with a timely and brutal novel. "Sunrise on the Reaping" explores the concept of implicit submission. It asks us what motivates -Chelsea
Papilio book cover
Papilio book cover

Papilio

jE Clanton
Humor, Kids, Picture Books, Animals, Nature, Science

"Told in three parts, Papilio transforms from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly"--

CMaynard's picture

There's a new very hungry caterpillar in town, Papilio! This collaborative picture book has just enough information for young entomologists to gobble up and features a sweet story about finding your wings. Papilio is one big treat! -Casey

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