Summary: "Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series finds the Targaryens ruling over the Seven Kingdoms -- and on the brink of civil war within their own house. Prior to the birth of a son, King Viserys sent shockwaves through the kingdom and declared his daughter, Rhaenyra, his heir. Once a healthy boy entered the picture, plans were afoot to make sure she would never sit on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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5 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUSummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVSummary: The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDSummary: "The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHUOrlando, Steve
Summary: "The Scarlet Witch's loyalties will be tested when an enemy of the Kree/Skrull Empire falls through the Last Door, desperate for help avenging their fallen comrades. Will Wanda honor the commitment she made to helping those in need? Or will her love for her son Wiccan and his husband, Hulkling - who happens to be the emperor of that Empire - triumph over all? Then, a familiar figure appears at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SCAEnnis, Garth
Summary: "Preacher Jesse Custer's dark journey to find God, accompanied by his gun-toting girlfriend and Irish vampire buddy, continues as Jesse becomes the sheriff of a troubled Texas town. Then, he decides it's high time to renew his quest to find God and hold him accountable for all of his actions. But before he can continue down that path, he must reunite with his girlfriend, Tulip"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PREDunant, Sarah.
Summary: Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Dunant 2017Summary: Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATGonzález, Saraí
Summary: Fourth grader Saraí Gonzalez can do anything. She can bake, dance, and run her own cupcake business. But when Saraí's grandparents are forced to move, even Saraí's not sure what to do. So she hatches a super-awesome plan with her younger sisters and cousin to buy back the house. Will Saraí find a way to save the day?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GONMarsh, Sarah
Summary: Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBeg, Sara Sharaf
Summary: Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisioned her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy month of Ramadan with extended family she hasn't seen in years. Struggling to find her place in the conservative household and to connect with her aloof, engaged-to-be-married cousin, Mahnoor, Dua she must battle her hormones whenever she sees Hassan, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEGSutton, Karah
Summary: The witch Baba Yaga and a wolf switch bodies and form an unlikely alliance to save the forest from an evil tsar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUTWalker, Sarai
Summary: "The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up.New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Sarai.
Summary: "A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walker 2015Favino, Pierfrancesco
Summary: Dramatized portrayal of the life of Tommaso Buscetta, a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became an informer in the 1980s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRAIglesias, Gabino.
Summary: "A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the mother of chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broken River Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGLDeWitt, Tarah
Summary: "When falling in love is the punchline... Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn't have a clue. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even--in lieu of flowers, please send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Summer won't last forever. Sage Byrd has lived in the coastal town of Spunes, Oregon (not to be confused with Forks, Washington) her entire life. She's learned to love her small world, with the misfit animals on her hobby farm, and her friendships with the town's inhabitants. But when her 5-year relationship ends and her ex, town-golden-boy Ian, suddenly gets engaged, Sage needs a win -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2024
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Summary: "A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARFarah, Nuruddin
Summary: War in Somalia transforms a simple village girl into a self-confident woman who even swims and drives a car. She is Duniya, a widow with three children. By an English-speaking writer, author of Maps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARSummary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PREIglesias, Gabino
Summary: From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022