Summary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pl̀mason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's Southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Cam disguises herself as a man to inherit her father's money and estate, and though she tries to keep a low profile, she ends up falling for Crown Princess Brie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSMoniz, Tomas
Summary: "Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole--a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender--is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acre 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONSummary: The gripping fourteenth year of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; begins with a scandal that erupts at the heart of the squad, and the resulting investigation unearths past secrets. After the case surrounding Captain Cragen is closed, the workload gets more explosive as a hasty new assistant DA comes onto the scene. Challenging mysteries involve a sniper that targets cops, escort services in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWWoodworth, Viki.
Summary: Bored with life in the pasture, Daisy the cow finds a job as a fire station mascot, but she must prove to the Chief that she's as good at the work as any Dalmatian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline House/Boyds Mills Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WoodwRyan, Pam Munoz
Summary: A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYARyan, Pam Munoz
Summary: "Maximiliano Cordoba loves stories, especially the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow. If Max could see tomorrow, he would know if he will make Santa Maria's celebrated futbol team and whether he'll ever meet his mother, who disappeared when he was a baby. He longs to know more about her, but Papa won't talk. So when Max...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RYASuri, Manil.
Summary: In a novel that incorporates elements of Hindu mythology, an apartment building becomes a metaphor for the divisions and cultural clashes of modern India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURMoniz, Dantiel W.
Summary: "Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONVogel, Vin
Summary: Leo grew up in the sea with a family of sea lions he loves. When he's reunited with his human parents, he finds he loves them, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Contents: v. I. A sort of introduction and Pseudoreality prevails -- v. II. Into the millenium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUS VOL 1Call number: FIC MUS VOL 2
Yapa, Sunil
Summary: Follows seven different people, including a marijuana dealer and his estranged police chief father, who have their lives altered one afternoon in Seattle during the WTO protests that tried to shut the city down in 1999.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAPMunier, Paula
Summary: "Former Army MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are back in Blind Search, the sequel to the page-turning, critically acclaimed A Borrowing of Bones It's October, hunting season in the Green Mountains -- and the Vermont wilderness has never been more beautiful or more dangerous. Especially for nine-year-old Henry, who's lost in the woods. Again. Only this time he sees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUNSuri, Manil.
Summary: Marrying in order to escape an overbearing father, Meera is further victimized by her physically demanding husband and lustful brother-in-law, a circumstance from which she finds fleeting escape through her relationships with her sister-in-law and young son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURMonir, Alexandra
Summary: "Jasmine thought that she had earned her happily ever after when she and Aladdin defeated Jafar. Then her beloved father dies and, overnight, all her plans for the future change. Instead of her wedding, she's now planning a funeral and a coronation--her coronation, to become the first woman to rule Agrabah. But before the sultan's crown is placed on her head, her claim to the throne is called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONNunez, Elizabeth
Summary: Retiring in Barbados, widower Peter Ducksworth concludes he must divide his land between his three daughters. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, he declares that she receive hers only after his death and so sets in motion a discord in the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNSummary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BESRyan, Pam Munoz
Summary: Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYARyan, Pam Munoz.
Summary: A fictionalized account of the night Amelia Earhart flew Eleanor Roosevelt over Washington, D.C. in an airplane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RYAFung, Pik-Shuen
Summary: "In Ghost Forest, the unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him. The stories and experiences that unfold through his subsequent death and memorialization are lessons and curiosities of intimacy and affection. They are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUNMunda, Rosaria
Summary: "Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives--and for each other--as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022