Summary: A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive fifteen year old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable menage, the peculiar, new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOMSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARGarza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG GARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX GARMarías, Javier
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARNavarro Aquino, Xavier
Summary: "Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracán. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria. Urayoán, the idealistic, yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NAVSierra, Javier
Summary: In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, linked to a Spanish nun who had the power to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, journalist Carlos Albert stumbles upon a nearly forgotten...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIECercas, Javier
Summary: "From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CERFuentes, Javier
Summary: "In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain, in what is ultimately a meditation on identity, class, belonging and desire. It is 2007, in New York where Demetrio, 30, is a celebrated pastry chef at the French restaurant, Le Bourrelet. It will be his seventh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUESierra, Javier
Summary: "Bestseller Javier Sierra presents a new historical enigma: a mysterious pair of 16th century stones used for communicating with God"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIESierra, Javier
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts of artwork by da Vinci, Boticelli, and other master artists" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIECiment, Jill
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIMGovier, Katherine
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOVCiment, Jill
Summary: The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. . Two of the jurors sequestered (she, Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIMCiment, Jill
Summary: It’s the summer of 2015; Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, recently retired legal librarian and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who’s mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent; it’s a mushroom…and it’s...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIMGovier, Katherine
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOVCercas, Javier
Summary: "A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marain is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misaerables. Then his mother was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CERMarias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSierra, Javier
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIEClement, Blaize.
Summary: "Pet sitter Dixie Hemingway is on the prowl again in the newest installment of Blaize Clement's classic and beloved series of cozy mysteries, now written by her son, John Clement, using Blaize's notes and ideas for future adventures. Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, THE CAT SITTER'S WHISKERS catches up with Dixie as she heads off for work one morning in the dimly lit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: When Mame, the elderly dachshund in Dixie Hemingway's care, gets away from her to investigate a mound of mulch, Dixie isn't surprised. What the dachshund digs up, however, is very surprising. The dead body she uncovers triggers a set of jolting events that puts Dixie at the center of a hunt for a psychopathic killer--a killer who believes Dixie saw him leaving the scene of the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClemens, James.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLE GS #1Summary: Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEIClement, Debbie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rainbows Within Reach 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Clement 2009Clement, Hal
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1978