Benway, Robin
Summary: After getting pregnant at sixteen and putting her baby up for adoption, Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, goes looking for her biological family. She finds an older brother and younger sister, but she struggles to find the balance between her cautious joy at discovering two brand-new family members and the gaping loneliness that lingers in the space her daughter once held.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENSummary: "FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARBenway, Robin
Summary: Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENSolomon, Andrew
Summary: Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.40 SOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4083 SOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.4083 SOLSummary: Ridding National City of Queen Rhea and her Daxamite army was a major win for Supergirl, but one that came at a significant cost, as Kara was forced to sacrifice her budding relationship with Mon-El. As season three returns with all-new supercharged adventures, Kara and team will come up against a new threat in the form of DC world killer Reign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPFisher, Joely
Summary: "Actress, director, and entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers behind the curtain and into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, heartfelt memoir filled with candid and sometimes painful stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her sister and unlikely hero, Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her. Growing up in an iconic Hollywood...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, JOELY FISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FicherCarr, Erin Lee
Summary: "A celebrated journalist, bestselling author, and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he collapsed in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker at age twenty-seven, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence--1,936 items in total. What started as an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARR, ERIN LEE CARIron & Wine
Contents: Walking far from home -- Me and Lazarus -- Tree by the river -- Monkey's uptown -- Half moon -- Rabbit will run -- Godless brother in love -- Big burned hand -- Glad man singing -- Your fake name is good enough for me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IROHart, Grant.
Contents: Out of chaos -- Morningstar -- Awake, arise! -- If we have the will -- I will never see my home -- I am death -- Sin -- Letting me out -- Is the sky the limit? -- Golden chain -- So far from heaven -- Shine, shine, shine -- It isn't love -- War in heaven -- Glorious -- (It was a) Most disturbing dream -- Underneath the apple tree -- The argument -- Run for the wilderness -- For those too high...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording Co. 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARDeacon, Dan
Contents: Become a mountain -- Hypnagogic -- Sat by a tree -- Arp I: Wide eyed -- Arp II: Float away -- Arp III: Far from shore -- Arp IV: Any moment -- Weeping birch -- Fell into the ocean -- My friend -- Bumble bee crown king.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DEAAFI (Musical group)
Contents: Twisted tongues -- Far too near -- Dulcería -- On your back -- Escape from Los Angeles -- Begging for trouble -- Back from the flesh -- Looking tragic -- Death of the party -- No eyes -- Tied to a tree.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AFIGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GREL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Facts about the Sackett novels that includes real and fictional characters, geography, and historical eras.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 LAMJameson, James
Summary: In a forest far away from the hustle and bustle of town grows the Fir Tree. The meadow he lives in is beautiful and serene, but the Fir Tree yearns for the excitement of the outside world. His friend the Robin brings him gifts and tells him stories of the places she's been, the people she's flown over, and the many things men construct out of wood. The Fir Tree dreams of adventure and wishes to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Gerritsen, Tess
Summary: "Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GERGerritsen, Tess
Summary: Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by all her neighbors, lies in her own home, brutally bludgeoned. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GERJoslin, Mary.
Summary: Collects stories that highlight the strengths and weaknesses of human nature and the consequences of foolish choices, in a work featuring tales from such countries as Nigeria, Turkey, Bhutan, and Russia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Children's 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 JOSPourquié, Bernadette
Summary: Have you ever heard of the Strangler Tree? The Bubblegum Tree? The Upside-Down Tree? How about trees with horns, bottles, sausages, crowns, and ones that walk or even explode? Crazy, maybe, but true. Find out more about these, and many others, in this colorfully illustrated collection of the most bizarre--but real--trees from around the world, once again reminding us that the art of nature is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Greathead, Kate
Summary: "A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018