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Apprentices Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile fiction Fantasy Identity (Psychology) Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile fiction Imaginary places Juvenile fiction Immortality Fiction Magic Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile fiction Married people Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction Young adult fiction Zoologists Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile fictionContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: "Circus is a super-powered security force of entertainers with special abilities who keep villains off the streets by serving up justice with a side of razzle-dazzle. Despite their best efforts, a sinister organization named Kafka is gaining power through the world using grotesque monsters to carry out their plots. When Circus saves a mysterious boy from Kafka's grasp, the kid gets swept up in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME KARToure, Nakhane
Summary: When Xolani, a quiet, sensitive, closeted factory worker returns home to be a guide in his tribe's coming-of-age circumcision ritual in the mountains, one of the initiates discovers his secret relationship with another guide, putting both of them at risk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOUGipi
Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIPPettersen, Siri
Summary: Separated and struggling to survive in two different worlds, Hirka and Rime vow to defeat the ancient evil that offers immortality at a dangerous price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: "When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHustvedt, Siri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSPettersen, Siri
Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETSummary: Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WETSummary: "Amin Jaafari ..., an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATTHustvedt, Siri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poseidon Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: Mia is forced to reexamine her life when her husband puts their marriage on "pause" after thirty years. She returns to the prairie town of her childhood, and is drawn into the lives of those around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Henry Holt and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: The long friendship between art historian Leo Hertzberg and artist Bill Wechsler leads to a growing involvement between their two families as they deal with the joys, sorrows, tragedies, and loss that transform their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHustvedt, Siri
Summary: "From international bestseller and Booker Prize-nominee Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, Then tells the indelible story of a young Midwestern woman's fixation with her mysterious neighbor over the course of a threadbare year in 1970s New York" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSPettersen, Siri
Summary: "Born by blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETSharp, Sid
Summary: "Bellwether Riggwelter is out of blackberries. While he loves gathering treats and roaming the forest, he dreads running into the very dangerous wolves. To protect himself, he builds the ultimate disguise: a wolf suit. And it works...sort of."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHAJimi.
Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIAThurm, Marian
Summary: In this powerful new book from an esteemed novelist and acclaimed short-story writer, Marian Thurm expertly draws a chilling portrait of a marriage and the downward spiral of a loving husband and father who has bought a handgun as the novel opens.Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxurious Upper East Side apartment with all the accoutrements of the wealthy, and two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUThurm, Marian
Summary: One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to work as the assistant to Austin Bloch, an editor responsible for refining and publishing the work of some of America's most esteemed writers. But after she begins working at this prestigious magazine in the late 1970's, Mel soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUCawthon, Scott
Summary: "What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Oscar think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn't so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Oscar wishes to get his hands on the mechanical toy that's out of stock all over town. But in the twisted world of Five Nights at Freddy's, their hearts' deepest desires have an unexpected cost. In this volume,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: Three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1992
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Summary: For as long as she can remember, Sorceline has had a knack for the study of mythical creatures. Now a student at Professor Archibald Balzar's prestigious school of cryptozoology, she's eager to test her skills and earn a spot as one of Balzar's apprentices. But for all her knowledge of gorgons, vampires, and griffins, Sorceline is mystified by her fellow humans. While she excels in her studies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DOU (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Sereis DouyeLindhardt, Thure
Summary: When a documentary filmmaker and a lawyer meet they begin a tumultuous relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013