Summary: "This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe (This Is My Dream) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers--Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EYISummary: Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PIEYagi, Emi
Summary: "When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups-because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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Summary: "A novel about a Prohibition-era bad girl turned good inspired by the life of Mazie Phillips, Queen of the Bowery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Attenberg 2015Alwani, Sami
Summary: "In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani weaves together themes of art induced dissociation, queer intergenerational polyamory, racial capitalism and esoteric mystical experiences into 20 slice of life comic stories that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. These stories question society and individual identity. A talking baby philosophizes away his own emotions. A half-man, half-dog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALWSummary: How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHAAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Toni and Mika receive a letter announcing Chris and Marie's engagement. Since Mika has had a crush on Chris forever, and Marie is their sworn enemy, the twins are upset by this news. They decide to journey to Diamas to rescue Chris. Captured by the maniacal Marie, they are forced to attend the evil engagement party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKISummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika teleport back in time a thousand years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIGarcia, Kami.
Summary: In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GARAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika begin to suspect that their new friend Emma's life is in serious danger, and they're certain that her long-lost twin, Marie, is the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIGarcia, Kami
Summary: When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer from her first-choice college, senior year starts off exactly as planned. But when Peyton uncovers her boyfriend’s dark secret, she confronts him―and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Peyton’s knee―and maybe her dream of going pro―is shattered. Everyone is talking: Was she pushed, or did she fall? Peyton knows the truth, even if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GARGarcia, Kami.
Summary: When Ethan wakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, his one goal is to return to Lena and his loved ones, while back in Gatlin, Lena vows to do whatever it takes to bring Ethan home--even trusting old enemies and risking the lives of thoseEthan left to protect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GARMalek, Rami
Summary: Follows the rise of the band Queen and Freddie Mercury's attempts at being a solo artist until their performance at the Live Aid concert in 1985.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bohemian 2019Garcia, Kami.
Summary: Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GARGarcia, Kami.
Summary: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARGarcia, Kami.
Summary: There were no surprises in Gatlin County . We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2013
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Hoag, Tami
Summary: An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? Number one New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet.A panic-stricken woman runs in the dead of night, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help....When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska find themselves in pursuit of a serial killer whose latest victim is a bullied adolescent who desperately sought a normal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HOAHoag, Tami.
Summary: Dana was a promising TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed, but Dana is still scarred by her ordeal. In an attempt to put herself back together, Dana returns to her hometown. But she struggles to recognize family and friends and begins experiencing dark flashbacks. Dana decides to use her investigative skills to piece together her past. Looking at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOAHoag, Tami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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Summary: A woman is stunned when her former lover, a baseball player, who had left her seven years ago, shows up severely injured in the hospital in which she is in charge of the physical therapy department, wanting her to not only help him heal, but also to give him a second chance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOAHoag, Tami.
Summary: Trauma nurse Julia McCarver was in shock when she answered the door and found the past standing there the person of former football quarterback S. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once, but three times after she had suffered from his selfishness, and she had no intention of making it a fourth. But S.T. wants two weeks to convince Julia that he's changed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOACharles, Tami
Summary: "Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup -- Freedom Soup -- just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019