Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OMcCarthy, Cormac
Summary: His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCSummary: Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: Seven-part limited series about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. It focuses on the past decade which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party's de facto leader, and the sexual harassment accusations that brought his career to an end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOUSummary: A return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, he believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie MadSummary: The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SPICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Chronicles 2008Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPICathon
Summary: "Winter is coming, and Poppy and Sam's tiny garden neighbors are getting ready to hibernate. After stocking their pantries for the colder days ahead, Poppy and Sam settle in for a long winter's nap as well. But what is Poppy doing wrong? She can't sleep and nothing seems to work! Determined to hibernate like her friends, Poppy sets out with Sam to ask the other creatures for their deep-sleep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2020
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Summary: "It's a beautiful day in the garden when Poppy and her friend Sam (a panda bear) hear a commotion nearby. Basil is crying, for someone has nibbled the leaves of his crown! But not to worry - Poppy is on the case. Putting their detective skills to work, Poppy and Sam try to catch the thief red-handed, but the friends fall asleep during the stakeout. They attempt to trap the culprit by spreading...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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Summary: "A young blue-footed booby named Benjamin has a knack for finding "treasure" (human discards). When his discovery of a mirror causes him to become insecure about his body, Benjamin uses his collection to change his features. But his changes make it impossible to swim and fish and fly, and Benjamin realizes he's exactly the way he's meant to be."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACLafon, Lola
Summary: Fascinée par le destin de la petite gymnaste roumaine de quatorze ans apparue aux JO de Montréal en 1976 pour devenir immédiatement un mythe planétaire, la narratrice de ce roman imagine de l'expérience que vécut cette prodigieuse fillette, venue, par la pureté de ses gestes, incarner aux yeux du monde le rêve d'une enfance éternelle. Mais quelle version retenir du parcours de cette petite...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Actes Sud 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 LAF FRENCHSummary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu Movie MisfitsLanton, Sandy
Summary: Being the youngest in her family means that Hannah cannot do many things, which makes her unhappy, until finally, at Passover, there is a special duty only she can perform.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE LANMcCartney, Alistair
Summary: Within this dizzying investigation into the mystery of death is another mystery: who is the companion igniting these memories? This enigmatic novel blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction, story and eulogy, poetry and obituary. Wry yet somber, astringent yet tender, The Disintegrations confronts both the impossibility of understanding death and the timeless longing for immortality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSummary: A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STIPaton, Alan.
Summary: The story of South Africa in the 1940s, a land divided by racial injustice, and of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu Christian pastor, and his son, Absalom, who has been accused of murdering a white man.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATMcCartney, Jenny
Summary: A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Estate 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCMcCartney, Paul
Summary: Grandude brightens a dreary weekend for his visiting grandchildren, Lucy, Tom, Em, and Bob, by using his magic compass and postcards to take them on adventures around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCMcCourtney, Lorena.
Summary: Cate Kinkaid arrives at H&B Vintage Auto Restorations to give a friend a ride. But, as usual, trouble finds Cate even there-this time in the form of one dead man, one wounded man, and what appears to be a pretty obvious case of self-defense.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCGreen, Layton
Summary: "Detective Joe "Preach" Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers in Atlanta, and with a reputation as one of the finest homicide detectives in the city, his career derailed when he suffered a mental breakdown during the investigation of a serial killer who was targeting children. No sooner does Preach arrive at home in Creekville,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M GRELayton, Edith.
Summary: When Maxwell, Lord Montrose, who hides a secret identity as a Crown spy, agrees to help her find her missing fiancé, Phillipa Carstairs tries to ignore her growing feelings for him as they scour England for her husband-to-be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAYEaton, Jason Carter
Summary: The catawampus cat walked into town one day at a slant, and since then everyone in town is seeing their world with fresh eyes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EATEaton, Jason Carter
Summary: A boy shares his tips for tracking, catching, and training your very own pet truck.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016