Chern, Lina
Summary: "A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHESummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: The next generation of Griswolds is at is again, and on the road for another ill-fated adventure. Following in his father's footsteps and hoping for some much-needed family bonding, a grown-up Rusty Griswold surprises his wife, and their two sons with a cross-country trip back to Wally World.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VACSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: A fifteen year old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. On the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRRiesen, Lila
Summary: "Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIEAhern, Cecelia.
Summary: From the author of the New York Times bestseller P.S. I Love You comes an "engrossing new novel . . . filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty" ( Booklist ). Born into the lap of luxury and comfortable in the here and now, spoiled, tempestuous Tamara Goodwin has never had to look to the future—until the abrupt death of her father leaves her and her mother a mountain of debt...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
View online at OverDrive
Finck, Liana
Summary: "Parents will be parents, but the joke is on them in this clever collection of subversive parent-child interactions by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE FINSeçkin, Mina
Summary: While self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine instead of dealing with her father's death, a Turkish-American woman delves into her family's history after discovering her devoted grandmother carriesa harrowing secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SECSummary: Ex-maid of honor Eloise, having been relieved of her duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to hold her head up high and attend her oldest friend's wedding anyway. She finds herself seated at the 'random' table in the back of the ballroom with a disparate group of strangers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TABPodesta, Lena
Summary: Gil the Goldfish feels crowded in his small bowl with a plant, a castle, and 138 pebbles, but when he leaves his bowl in search of a better home, he learns some important lessons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PODLuna, Louisa
Summary: Hired to locate two young girls who disappeared from a small Pennsylvania town, enigmatic bounty hunter Alice Vega is rebuffed by the overextended local police and enlists the help of disgraced former cop Max Caplan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LUNLink, Mardi.
Summary: "Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure and reclaims her life. It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
Sorry, no copies available at East Bay
We have 6 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALISummary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASChen, Zhiyuan.
Summary: Crocodile Guji Guji was raised by a family of ducks. One day he met 3 crocodiles who told him that he was not a duck. They ask Guji Guji to help them trap ducks. Guji Guji then tricked the crocodiles and saved the duck family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Publishers 2004
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEPalmer, Liza.
Summary: The strategy on the gridiron of Friday Night Lights is nothing compared to the savagery of coming home . . . Queenie Wake has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup . . . again. Now the only place she has to go is North Star, Texas, the hometown she left in disgrace. Maybe things will be different this time around. After all, her mother--notorious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
View online at OverDrive
Stevens, Chevy.
Summary: "Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available at East Bay
We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.De Lint, Charles
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures in this expansion on the author's and illustrator's previous work, A circle of cats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Stevens, Chevy.
Summary: Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEChen, Mike
Summary: When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022