Summary: Eighteen months ago, mother-of-three Faith had her cozy life thrown into chaos after the disappearance of her husband, Evan. Still striving to keep her family together, Faith must fulfill Evan's debt to a vicious crime family even as she fights her attraction to a former client. Then a local farmer is found dead, and his wife, Madlen, is arrested for his murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KEECaramagna, Joe
Summary: During a tribute to the late beloved King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of Arendelle, Elsa and Anna stumble upon some old boxes of their parents' belongings. What they find inside sparks some of their youngest childhood memories--it's a scavenger hunt created by their mother. Offering the sisters the chance to create a new experience with their mother, they enthusiastically begin the game. But to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MENNorlund, Dina
Summary: "Syv is a snowcat and the youngest in a family of princes. When his father dies, Syv and his brothers are all in line for the throne. Eager to become kings themselves, and wary of how well-liked Syv has become by the citizens, Syv's brothers send him on a dangerous quest to find the long-lost magical crown that once belonged to their royal ancestor, the Eldking. Legend says that the snowcat who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NORSuen, Anastasia.
Summary: Vanessa is the new girl in class, and Sara is torn between sympathy, because she knows what being teased is like, and a desire to stay with the "in" crowd led by Courtney, chief bully, and the reader is invited to choose between three possible choices for Sara to make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC UPSuen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SUEAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZFishbein, Dena.
Summary: A mother and child share happy times reading books, taking naps, and playing together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Fishbein 2011Maslo, Lina
Summary: "The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness," her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teaching of Ukrainian culture. They've even taken the grain from Zlata's family's fields. But despite the danger, her parents refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: After a plane goes down in the Appalachians, Deborah Sanborn, using her telepathic abilities, joins the rescue team to help find a missing five-year-old boy who, she believes, is caught in the grip of a desperate killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCSenft, Adina.
Summary: As romance blossoms between her and Eli Fischer, Amelia Beiler is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and faces a hard choice, since she will be shunned by her Amish community if she gets the treatment she wants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Senft 2011Suen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Suen 2003Mengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENWallander, Disa
Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALChaviano, Daina
Summary: Far from her family, her history, and her home in Cuba, Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in the Little Havana section of Miami, where a mysterious woman's fascinating tale keeps her returning night after night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADini, Paul
Summary: This Batman one-shot reveals the origins of Harley Quinn as she proves her love to the Joker by trying to eliminate the Dark Knight on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPDinan, Nicola
Summary: It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DINChern, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHEHastings, Anastasia
Summary: "The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings--when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, fielding questions from both irate housekeepers and heartbroken mothers is par for the course... "Dear Miss Hermione--what is a mother to do?" Sensible Violet Manville and her very ladylike half-sister Sephora are absolutely bored, thank you very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: "In this wordless picture book, a bird emerges after winter to find the world has gone quiet. As she settles on a tree outside an apartment building, its residents notice her through their windows and find hope in her resilience and the continued rhythms of nature."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SINLuchsinger, Dena.
Summary: While being smart and strong are useful traits, loving other people just because God made them is always good.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE Set Spanish Luchsinger 2007Ayuyang, Rina
Summary: "The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023