Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELSummary: Best selling comic book artist Joann Sfar delivers an inventive biography of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar and his many relationships including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin while employing a witty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GAIBaldrige, Letitia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSadler, Marilyn.
Summary: Unhappy being a bunny, P.J. Funnybunny tries living with bears, birds, beavers, pigs, moose, possums, and skunks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1983
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SADSadler, Marilyn.
Summary: Honey Bunny Funnybunny likes to save her money, but also enjoys spending some on herself and being generous with her friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JE FIC SADRobertson, Sadie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old A.J. Smith, who was born and raised in backwoods Tennessee, attends school with Kate Kelly, a fashionable girl on a reality show, and the two Christian girls eventually become friends, even as the show's producers try and cause conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ROBJones, Sadie.
Summary: It's 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is traveling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert reverts easily to suburban life--cocktails at six-thirty, church on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSummary: This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Artie begins training as a secret agent but soon finds that his large size, small brain, and lack of fingers make an Apatosaurus unfit for running, hiding, and using a walkie-talkie. Includes discussion question and dinosaur facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone Press 2018
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Summary: When Alistair is kidnapped by a spaceship full of Goots from Gootula, his main concern is for his overdue library books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall Books for Young Readers 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SADSadler, Marilyn.
Summary: Red is so excited that Gwen has laid a nest full of eggs, he rushes out to buy a worm to feed each of the increasing number of chicks as they hatch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2014
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Summary: "Every night, a giant pit sucked and slurped up everything... And every night, it slurped me up, too... For one young child, nothing has been the same since losing their father. Words won't fit together. Playing soccer is no longer fun. And every night brings the same terrible dream... a black, slurping pit that looks just like the period their father taught about as a grammar teacher. Periods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAYChesterfield, Sadie
Summary: After recieving a message from Skystar, the princess of the seaponies, Fluttershy and her best friends head to Seaquestria for an underwater vacation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHESChesterfield, Sadie
Summary: "Gru needs help! The Minions must fly a plane to San Francisco to save him. Will they get there safely? Buckle up, and find out!"--Back Cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CHEJones, Sadie
Summary: Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea's dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic. When Alex and Bea's parents make a surprise visit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSummary: A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY UNCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNCCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnElsbai, Hadeer
Summary: In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: A captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONJones, Sadie
Summary: Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea's dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic. When Alex and Bea's parents make a surprise visit,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JONJones, Sadie.
Summary: While fighting to save their family home, Charlotte prepares for an elaborate birthday celebration for her daughter Emerald, an event that unexpectedly turns into a dramatic evening that forever changes all of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSackier, Shelley
Summary: Annabelle Aster doesn't bow to convention-not even that of space and time-which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field that has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Even more peculiar is Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie letters through the mysterious brass mailbox perched on the picket fence that now divides their two worlds. Annie and Elsbeth's search...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2015
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Summary: A blissful romance between Adam and Emily is challenged by Adam's manipulative mother, who resorts to dire measures to keep all other women out of her son's life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JONJones, Sandie
Summary: Emily thinks Adam's perfect; the man she thought she'd never meet. But lurking in the shadows is a rival; a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever. The Other Woman is an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONMarías, Javier
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013