Wright, Adrienne

Summary: On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story's events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PIE

Summary: Trapped in an unhappy marriage, a small-town waitress finds her life forever changed by an unplanned pregnancy. Transforming her misery into delicious desserts, she sets out to win a pie contest and free herself from her abusive husband.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAI RATED PG-13

Summary: Jenna is unhappily married. She squirrels away money and is hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant and her plans are thrown awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with her fellow waitresses, Dawn and Becky. She, also,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAD

Summary: The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Mr. Link only wants to find the missing branch of his sasquatch family, the yeti of Tibet, and hires Sir Frost to help him search. Unfortunately, Adelina Fortnight -- a fierce woman who has crossed paths with Sir Frost before -- holds the only map, and they are pursued by a villain...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIS

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Summary: Cleaver languishes in jail, facing the consequences of his crimes and misbehaviors, while he awaits the outcome of his appeal. When the conviction is quashed at last, he discovers his world has grown even more chaotic in his absence. The proliferation of Royal Commissions, inquiries and corruption trials requires so many barristers, even Cleaver can find work. Of course, Cleaver being Cleaver,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAK

Summary: In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2005

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Summary: Cleaver makes a bitter enemy of the powerful new Attorney General, Cal McGregor, when Cleaver is caught having an affair with his wife. Cleaver's paramour, Missy, causes a scandal with a memoir about her life as a prostitute, and his best friend's wife, Scarlet, can't forgive Cleaver for the damage he caused to her marriage. Cleaver's legal career is just as hectic as his personal life as he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017

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Summary: The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: On any single day, Cleaver Greene is described as many things: to jurors he is hilarious, but to must judges he is an outrage. To the tax office, he is a defendant; to a certain brothel owner, a legend; and to his former cocaine dealer, a tragic loss. His favorite clients are those that appear to be hopelessly guilty. Despite his faults, Greene's wit and charm have won him hordes of female...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017

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Lenker, Adrianne

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020

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Finlay, Adrianne

Summary: Each of the four teenage contestants has their own reasons for joining the new virtual reality show CUT/OFF. The simple premise: place a group of teenagers alone in the wilderness, and whoever lasts the longest without 'tapping out' wins a cash prize. Not only that, new software creates a totally unprecedented television experience, allowing viewers to touch, see, and live everything along with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIN

Strickland, AdriAnne

Summary: When teenager Fin is forced to attend a vampire school, she must decide whether to blend in or cling to her humanity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STR

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Wight, Eric

Summary: Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini has a vivid imagination when it comes to cleaning his disastrously messy room, but eventually even he decides that it is just too dirty. Comic strip illustrations are interspersed throughout the text.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WIG

Wight, Jim

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERRIOT, JAMES WRI

Cuevas, Adrianna

Summary: In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUE

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Rich, Adrienne

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 RIC

Morganelli, Adrianna

Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the French explorer who made many voyages to North America, founded a colony in present-day Canada, and became known as the "Father of New France."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHA

Harun, Adrianne.

Summary: " The seductive and chilling debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of The King of Limbo In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances-until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town. Then it seems as if the devil himself has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Lenker, Adrianne

Contents: Terminal paradise (4:00) -- From (3:39) -- Womb (2:15) -- Out of your mind (3:52) -- Cradle (3:17) -- Symbol (3:49) -- Blue and red horses (3:17) -- Abyss kiss (3:03) -- What can you say (2:28) -- 10 miles (4:02).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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