Summary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: Emma travels to Italy to teach and research a wedding veil said to bring its owner love. While there, she meets Paolo, the son of a local lace-making family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark, Cinedigm 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALKadono, Eiko
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old half-witch Kiki travels to the town of Koriko where she makes new friends, overcomes challenges, and shares her magic with her community to make the world a brighter place"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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Summary: "Rebecca's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the "stranger game," a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GADHouser, Jody
Summary: "The Rebellion is here! The Rogue One crew makes the leap from the big screen to the comic-book page in this action-packed adaptation! All looks lost for the galaxy when the Empire's new super-weapon is discovered: any insurgency will quickly be thwarted by the devastating new Death Star! But maybe there is hope for the Rebel cause when Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor lead a crew of new heroes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HOUAdodo, Edudzi
Summary: Zero was a mass of conflicting emotions. This would be his first mission. What if they failed to find the Mask of the Shaman King? The entire galaxy was at stake.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ADOAdodo, Edudzi
Summary: After stumbling upon a strange, golden pyramid that imbues him with a legendary power, Zero is recruited to take part in a dangerous, intergalactic quest to track down the infamous mask of the Shaman King.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADOBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BACBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACGiordano, Paolo
Summary: "When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIOSummary: This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERCognetti, Paolo
Summary: "For fans of Elena Ferrante, Fredrik Backman, and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BACBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BACChikiamco, Paolo
Summary: "Manila--the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule--is a magical metropolis where monsters roam the neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. Tensions between the human and nonhuman realms are about to hit a breaking point in a city now governed by the mysterious Societies. Who will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIGiordano, Paolo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIOVerne, Jules
Summary: Un monstre marin sème la terreur dans toutes les mers du globe. Le gouvernement américain décide de le poursuivre et de l'éliminer. Le professeur Aronnax, célèbre savant français, est invité à participer à l'expédition. Il accepte. C'est alors que commence pour lui la plus incroyable des aventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard-Jeunesse 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 VER FRENCHSummary: Ashley Jensen is back as formidable and fashionable PI Agatha Raisin in Series 4 of this comic mystery series based on the books by MC Beaton.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAContents: Reginald on house parties / Saki -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREBacigalupi, Paolo
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Every year, after her school in Turin closes for the summer holidays, Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia and endures weeks of heat and boredom. This summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola; Tommaso; and charismatic Bern. Raised like brothers, they don't go to school, but instead live in a kind of commune led by Cesare, a teacher and father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2020