Summary: In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FINSummary: The world's favorite blue hedgehog is back for a next-level adventure in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2. After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available at East Bay
We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Fahmy, Huda
Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 FAHFahmy, Huda
Summary: Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 FAHTalty, Stephan.
Summary: In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage. Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn’t keep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
View online at OverDrive
Summary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available at East Bay
We have 2 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Sauer, Tammi
Summary: "Wordy Birdy loves to talk, but will she ever learn to listen?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAUSummary: Set in New Bedford, Mass., America's biggest commercial fishing port, FINESTKIND tells the story of two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks, who are reunited as adults over one fateful summer. When desperate circumstances force them to strike a deal with a dangerous Boston crime syndicate, a young woman finds herself caught in the middle. Along the way, sacrifices must be made, and bonds...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Tademy, Lalita.
Summary: The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick--the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's ancestral past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2001
View online at OverDrive
Summary: Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMOrange, Tommy
Summary: Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORAOrange, Tommy
Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Sorry, no copies available at East Bay
We have 12 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Orange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORAStubbs, Tommy.
Summary: In this version of the "Tortoise and the Hare" fable, two train engines compete in a race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STUWallach, Tommy.
Summary: The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALTalty, Morgan
Summary: "Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALLamm, Gina
Summary: A modern girl's guide to seducing Mr. Darcy When Ella Briley asked her lucky-in-love friends to set her up for an office party, she was expecting a blind date. Instead, she's pulled through a magic mirror and into the past...straight into the arms of her very own Mr. Darcy. Patrick Meadowfair, earl of Fairhaven, is too noble for his own good. To save a female friend from what is sure to be a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2015
View online at Hoopla
Ramm, Carl.
Summary: A gang of pornographers turns kidnapped women into sex slaves - and only Hawker can save them. Brenda Paulie is fresh out of law school, newly married, and recently pregnant. She's also marked to die. In an affluent neighborhood of Detroit, three masked men burst into Brenda's house, beat her husband senseless, and take her captive - their thirteenth victim this year. Only one man can save her:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller 2015
View online at Hoopla
Summary: "George & Tammy chronicles the country music power couple, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, whose complicated-but-enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time"--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GEOMatsumoto, Taiy¿
Summary: "Ace high school table tennis players push their passion to the limit in this story of self-discovery, told by Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto. Makoto Smile Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong. As one of the best players in school, all hopes are on him to win the regional high school tournament, but winning is not what Smile really wants to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PINTan, Twan Eng
Summary: In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary-a confession that has devastating consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
Sorry, no copies available at East Bay
We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Summary: "Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by women. Women who are self-actualized and independent and know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he finally extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women out there who would actually look at him with softness and desire? But just as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRONamey, Laura Taylor
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lila Reyes, furious when her parents send her to the English countryside to recover from grief and heartbreak, unexpectedly falls in love with a teashop clerk--and England, itself. After graduation, everything Lila Reyes had planned for her life fell apart. Her worried parents make a new plan for her: Spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAMEng, Tan Twan.
Summary: Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2012