Summary: Alex Ventura, a young and inexperienced diplomat, leads a team of explorers and experts to recover the undersea treasure stolen by Frank Wild, an adventurer who crosses the world looting common heritage from the depths of the sea.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FORSummary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDFernandez, Caroline
Summary: "Grandma keeps running off doing funny business. On a field trip! And if she doesn't stop, we'll miss the school bus. It's field trip day and all we want to do is have a simple, no shenanigans, fun day at the museum. But when dust makes Grandma start sneezing, we know we're in for a wild time. With each sneeze, Grandma turns into a different dinosaur and takes off. It's up to me and Moonie to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Common Deer Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERSummary: When a ship carrying two thousand humans setting out to colonize a distant planet encounters a system failure, they land on a moon and discover a race of hostile aliens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ALIFisch, Sholly
Summary: "The Teen Titans get an awesome new TV! But is it TOO awesome? Will they ever be able to focus on anything else ever again? Then, the day the Titans have been dreading all year has finally arrived. A day of unimaginable pain. Insurmountable loneliness. Inconceivable amounts of ice cream. That's right--it's Valentine's Day!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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Summary: Astrid's plan for college is clear: friends, classes, and extracurriculars all carefully selected to get her into medical school. Until Max Martin, a nerdy boy from her high school, crashes back into her life. Things with Max were never simple, and he doesn't keep to her schedule. He disappears in the middle of dates and cancels at the last minute with stupid excuses. When a supervillain breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A few years after the Final Battle in Storybrooke, a grown-up Henry Mills leaves home in search of his own destiny. What he finds is true love with a new incarnation of Cinderella and unexpected danger from her hateful stepmother and stepsister, plus the added menace of Mother Gothel, a villainous sorceress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONCBall, Georgia
Summary: Strawberry Shortcake enters a regional baking competition, but when someone starts sabotaging the other contestants, it's up to Strawberry to figure out the culprit is before they target her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2018
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Summary: "Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure about friendship, defying expectations, and finding your place. Manu is always getting into trouble. The headmistress at school believes Manu has the potential to help people with her magic, but Manu would rather have fun than fit in. The other students claim she's secretly a demon and that she was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FERFernández, Bernardo
Summary: ¿Y si los dragones fueran reales? ¿Y si todos esos avistamientos en lagos africanos y en los océanos de Indonesia fueran ciertos? ¿Y si los hemos confundido con dinosaurios? ¿Y si fueran capaces de volar, de respirar bajo el agua, de reproducirse...? En la que considera la más querida de sus novelas, Bef nos cuenta que la respuesta a todas esas preguntas pudo haberse hallado en el barrio chino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Autumn has settled on the farm but fallen leaves aren't the only signs of the season. Find out what animals Kitten sees preparing themselves for winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERHernández, Mili
Summary: Federico the cat travels from roof to roof to visit all his families; among them are Tadeo, who lives with his grandparents, Ana and her two moms, and Virginia with her father and mother. They are different families and Federico loves them all equally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2020
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Summary: "Lucy is happy painting the color of laughter in her garden, but loses her way when she follows feedback from a series of animal critics. With wise encouragement from her cat, Lucy finds her authentic self in her work again and painting is rewarding once more."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: A young kitten explores the wilderness as other animals celebrate spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: A young kitten explores the woods on a cold winter day as other animals shelter from the weather or engage in their usual seasonal activities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: When the rain starts suddenly, Kitten and the other animals must find someplace dry to stay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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Summary: Milly is thrilled to be accepted into the elite Unicorn School, although she is a donkey in disguise, but her first day reveals she has much in common with her fellow newcomers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HERHernandez, Leeza
Summary: A lost pet cat finds her way home with help from a kindly passerby and the animal shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERHernandez, Lolita
Summary: Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERFernández, Nona
Summary: "Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMEberstadt, Fernanda
Summary: Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, who lives with her unmarried mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, in a farmhouse compound with other single-parent families. Rat is the result of a one-night encounter between Vanessa and Gillem, the son of a London model from the 1960s, who used to spend summers in the area and whom Rat has never spoken to or met. But when Vanessa's current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEMelchor, Fernanda
Summary: "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020