Summary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UNDSummary: "In 1946, Branch Rickey ... owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson ... to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field win over...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FORSummary: The inspirational true story, an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Innocence Project, Banks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BRICopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRISharma, Nisha
Summary: Told in two voices, teens Radha and Jai, seniors at a New Jersey performing arts high school, reignite their passion for dance and find strength in one another to pursue their dreams. Radha is on the verge of becoming one of the greatest Kathak dancers in the world until a family betrayal costs her the biggest competition of her life. She leaves her Chicago home behind to follow her stage mom...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHASharma, Nisha
Summary: "Kareena dreams of having a perfect love story ... That's why on the morning of her thirtieth birthday, she's decided to ... enter the dating arena ... Prem doesn't have time for romance, which is why it's no surprise when his first meeting with Kareena goes awry. Their second encounter is worse when their on-air debate about love goes viral. Now Prem's largest community center donor is backing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASharma, Nisha
Summary: Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well--until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group's temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHAHamilton, Tisha.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIBose, Disha
Summary: "A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOSAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADASaeed, Aisha
Summary: Rumi's family has moved to a new town and he is feeling lonely and left out at school because one of the other kids, Asher, is a bully--until Sebastian joins him, drawing in the dirt under the old willow tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAENoel, Melvina
Summary: Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them. Mama's Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books. Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, an imprint of Abrams 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE NOEAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: "Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in West London, where he shops every Wednesday, goes to temple, and worries about his granddaughter Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library when she discovers a forgotten slip of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADASummary: The Villain Kids are back in a high-stakes adventure that's badder than ever! When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon only to have Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle to retrieve her. But there's a new, self-proclaimed queen of evil in town: Mal's archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula. Together with her pirate crew, including Captain Hook's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADASummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THEGray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACMaren, Mesha
Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARNighy, Bill
Summary: A family copes with the shocking revelation that a husband intends to divorce his wife after twenty-nine years of marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOPTishy, Cecelia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TISŌnishi, Satoru
Summary: Presents a series of animal picture puzzles with a question on each page. Suggested level: junior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ONISaeed, Aisha
Summary: Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait patiently for it to be done.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019