Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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Summary: Beside Herself collects the dream music of Michele Mercure's self-produced and distributed albums, offered in scarce analog editions between 1983 and 1990. Traversing the DIY cassette trading scene and sensory bending soundtracks for experimental theatre and television, Mercure's night-lit, minimal synthesizer music expresses an ambitious vision and (simulated) voice swelling from the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MERSummary: A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-belive lover's brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHISummary: A story that goes beyond the boundaries of the Supernatural to the half-world of the living dead. Where a woman's soul inhabits the body of a fly, where Vengeance is only a voice and where vampires suck only the blood of those they love dearest. Not Since 'FRANKENSTEIN' Have You Seen Such Horror!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLAJ.Cole
Contents: 95 South -- Amari -- My life -- Applying pressure -- Punchin' the clock -- 100 mil' -- Pride is the devil -- Let go my hand -- Interlude -- The climb back -- Close -- Hunger on hillside.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP COLMercurio, Ishta
Summary: First, Nanda's entire world is the circle of her mother's arms but as she grows, she sees the wonder of whirligigs, fractals in the snow, and even the circle of the Earth, itself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MERMercurio, Peter
Summary: "This gentle and incredibly poignant picture book tells the true story of how one baby found his home. "Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So beginsthe true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MERPaganini, Nicolò
Contents: Opera I (18:00) -- Opera II (22:00) -- Opera IV (26:00) -- Opera V (20:00) -- Opera VI (22:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamic 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PAGOstow, Micol
Summary: Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSTMercury Rev.
Contents: Meth of a Rockette's kick -- Trickle down -- Bronx cheer -- Boys peel out -- Downs are feminine balloons -- Something for Joey -- Snorry mouth -- Hi-speed boats -- Continuous drunks and blunders -- Girlfren.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Beggars Banquet 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MercuDiMercurio, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMDiMercurio, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMOstow, Micol
Summary: The Sweet Potato Circus is in trouble, and Louise and her best friend, Stella, will do anything to save their circus--even if it means joining forces with their sworn enemy, Ferret-breath Fernando.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: "Six-year-old Louise Trapeze lives at the circus and can't wait to fly on the trapeze until she discovers that she is afraid of heights"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSTMcColl, Katy
Summary: Shares decorating ideas, storage solutions, and do-it-yourself projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 747 MCCMiddle Kids
Contents: Beliefs and prayers -- Salt eyes -- Needle -- Real thing -- Call me Snowflake -- Big softy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIDNickle, John.
Summary: Lucas learns a lesson about bullying when he is pulled into the ant hole he has been tormenting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NICNicolle, David
Summary: Describes the life of a medieval knight and the culture he lived in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 909.07 NICCall number: J 940.1 NIC
Nordeman, Nichole.
Contents: Brave -- What if -- Someday -- Real to me -- Crimson -- Hold on -- Lay it down -- No more chains -- Gotta serve somebody -- Live -- We build.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS NORTickle, Phyllis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242.38 TICMickle, Shelley Fraser
Summary: Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 MICMcColl, Sarah
Summary: Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. In a series of vibrant...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCOLL, SARAH MCCPhoenix, Michèle
Summary: "Michele Phoenix crafts a poignant story of a young woman recovering from the evils of this world through perseverance, hope, and the light in a centuries-old document"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PHOContents: Clear white light Dry Ice -- Split - part two Groundhogs -- Love gang Edgar Broughton Band -- Broken biscuits The Deviants -- Friendly man July -- Wait a minute Blossom Toes -- Home and away Humble Pie -- House without windows Mighty Baby -- Tiptoe on the highest hill Twink -- Everyone's hero Bill Nelson -- Loud green song Patto -- Kings of speed (Hawkwind Zoo version) Hawkwind -- Our time is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022