Summary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEL

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DEL

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV O

Summary: The epic Predator legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PRE

Summary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIG

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELV

Costello, Mary

Summary: "A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIS

Wilk, Elvia

Summary: "In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants; and the weather is acting strange. In search of affordable housing, young couple Anja and Louis move into a community on an artificial mountain, The Berg--yet another "eco-friendly" initiative run by a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Costello, David.

Summary: When a duck gets lost and a monkey helps him find his way, it starts a chain reaction in which all the young animals help each other solve their problems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2006

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COS

Costello, Mark

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COS

Costeloe, Diney

Summary: Speaking no English and carrying a precious photograph of the family she left behind in Germany crammed into her small suitcase thirteen-year-old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. After being adopted, her new home and life are blown apart during the Blitz. Waking up in the hospital with no memory, authorities give her a new name and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COS

Bovis, Ali

Summary: Sylvie can't wait to raise money for the animal shelter for her Make a Difference Day project, but when her frenemy, Camilla, and Sylvie's foster puppy create obstacles along the way, Sylvie discovers there is more than one way to make a difference.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOV

Eaves, Will

Summary: Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for "gross indecency with another male" and forced to undergo chemical castration. Set during the devastating period before Turing's suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EAV

Ennis, Garth

Summary: In the continuing saga of the bizarre adventures of faithless Texas preacher Jesse Custer, Jesse, along with his girlfriend Tulip and their friend Cassidy, the Irish vampire, head down South in hopes of recovering from their encounter with the forces of the Grail. But during their planned down time Jesse must face off against an enraged Arseface, who seeks to avenge his father's death, while...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2014

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PRE

Revis, Beth

Summary: Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REV

James, Eloisa.

Summary: Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the Prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke's passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months. Theo would have given it a lifetime .... until she discovers that James desired not her heart,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAM

Rowe, Kelis

Summary: Sparks fly when teens Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis, but these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROW

Kleven, Elisa.

Summary: A little bird discovers why the lion's tail changes color each day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLE

Silvis, Randall

Summary: What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIL

Mensah, Elvin James

Summary: "An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances. Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? It's 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEN

Ennis, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2014

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PRE

Ennis, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1989

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENN

Bovis, Ali

Summary: "When faced with the possible closing of her favorite beach, Sylvie first attempts a one-person coastal cleanup march on city hall, but thanks to the town clown, she realizes it will take more than one person to save the beach."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOV

Lui, Mavis

Summary: "Meet Frank is a picture book about our unique and beautiful qualities. Frank is a curious little alien who comes from a planet where everyone looks the same: same box shape, same green color. Convinced there must be something more, Frank explores the universe and lands on Earth, where he befriends three little Earthlings who all look very different. By celebrating their unique qualities, they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUI