Summary: A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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Summary: A little girl befriends a sad, tiny horse, and, with a little magic (and an ice cream cone), helps him fly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: A retelling of Snow White from the point of view of the stepmother queen, whose blinding obsession and insatiable jealousy lead inexorably to her own violent undoing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC ALEArthurs, Alexia
Summary: Presents a collection of stories set in Jamaica, New York City, and a Midwestern university, where multicultural main characters and their families navigate evolving senses of race, racism, family, and tradition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARTBeatrice, Jenna
Summary: When loud-voiced Penelope becomes student-librarian, she is determined to prove she is perfect for the job while staying true to herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: In a magical kingdom where a fearsome dragon stalks the land, two brave children set out to stop him to save their village, but when they meet him, they discover he isn't quite what they expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BLUColin, Beatrice
Summary: "From the author of To Capture What We Cannot Keep, Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a novel set on a remote Scottish estate, about the heiress and the mysterious woman from India who shows up on her doorstep ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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Summary: In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Emile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: A literary historical novel about an orphan girl's journey from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up to World War II, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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Summary: "Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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Summary: Her name is Alexandria Aurora Fortunato, and she is as lovely as the dawn. But that is only one of her problems. There's also the matter of those three magical gifts of treasure bestowed on her by a mysterious old woman. And King Claudio the Cruel wants to marry her for her beauty and her wealth, and so does his rival, Prince Edmund of Dorloo. Those are two more problems. And, worst of all, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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Summary: When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEMAlemagna, Béatrice
Summary: Lonely seven-year-old Harold Phillip Snipperpot is excited when his parents, not known for their affection, throw him a birthday party attended exclusively by animals, but things take a turn when his guests start destroying the house, forcing Harold to try and save his party from calamity with surprising results.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEAlemagna, Béatrice
Summary: Sent outside by their mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when their handheld game falls into the pond before they encounter giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken them to the sensory aspects of nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: When Pascaline, a little bat, screams "Never, Not Ever" in response to going to school, something extraordinary happens, which changes her mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "In this utterly enchanting and unexpected tale from international picture book star Beatrice Alemagna, a childhood mishap is the occasion for growth and self-reflection. When a little girl falls on the street, scraping her knee, her father tells her not to worry, that "a beautiful scab will form." But she does worry! The scab is not beautiful and it's keeping her from bending her knee! When...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hippo Park 2024
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Summary: When she hears her sister say "fluffy little squishy," five-year-old Edith worries that her sister will give their mother a better birthday present and scours the neighborhood in search of the best fluffy little squishy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEPotter, Beatrix
Summary: Collects adaptations for younger readers of four of Beatrix Potter's animal tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick Warne 2015
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Summary: In 1866 London, Dr. Julia Lewis, when grisly murders happen all over the city, works with Inspector Richard Tennant to understand a killer's dark obsessions and motivations, facing off against a fiendishly calculating opponent who has set his sights on Julia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCDBeattie, Ann
Summary: "Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABeattie, Ann.
Summary: Collects every Beattie story published in "The New Yorker" magazine throughout a thirty-five-year period, in an anthology that offers insight into modern American family life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAKindl, Patrice.
Summary: Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001