Summary: Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWESummary: Anton fights the forces of darkness while trying to find and save his son, but when vampires from the dark side mysteriously get killed, he is framed for their murders and must now try to escape the Day Watch who is looking for his blood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUSProkofiev, Sergey
Summary: Retells the orchestral fairy tale of the boy, who, ignoring his grandfather's warnings, proceeds to capture a wolf.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Live Oak Media 1987
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PETProkofiev, Sergey
Summary: Retells the orchestral fairy tale in which a boy ignores his grandfather's warnings and captures a wolf with the help of a bird, a duck, and a cat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE RasBloch, Serge.
Summary: A boy receives many confusing words of advice in the form of phrases like, "Dust yourself off and get back in the saddle."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLOParadjanov, Sergei
Summary: In a remote nineteenth century Carpathian mountain village, Ivan falls for the daughter of the man who murdered his father, but is separated from her by poverty and a sorcerer's curse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the death of his grandfather, Vasil wishes the neighboring farmers to share the use of a tractor purchased by the village council. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, he becomes the victim of a tragic murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARBloch, Serge.
Summary: Sam describes all of the things he likes doing with his dad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wilkins Farago 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLOSerber, Natalie.
Summary: "Coming of age is a painful and beautiful experience in Natalie Serber's hands. These are funny and poignant pieces, building a book that feels novelistic in sweep, yet true to the precision and direct aim of the short story. A real pleasure." —Antonya Nelson Mothers and daughters ride the familial tide of joy, regret, loathing, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women. In a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Summary: "Bear really loves Christmas! This year he's throwing the perfect holiday party for all his friends. But there's so much to do to get ready. From picking out gifts at the market to choosing the biggest tree in the forest to selecting delicious treats at the candy factory-Bear has many treasures to find, and he is only one very little bear! Can you help Bear find all the secret treasures he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DUDSeredy, Kate.
Summary: Two cousins spend an adventurous summer on a ranch on the Hungarian plains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SERBloch, Serge.
Summary: On the first day of school, a student is confused by many of the phrases that are used, such as when the librarian says not to open a can of worms, or when the teacher says he expects the class to be busy bees doing their homework.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLOBloch, Serge.
Summary: A boy who does not like trying new foods receives many confusing words of advice in the form of such phrases as "people need three square meals a day" and "I knew you were a tough cookie."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLOBergel, Colin
Summary: A young girl learns how the birthday card she makes for her father will get to him as he works on a freighter carrying coal on Lake Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERSeredy, Kate.
Summary: Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SERHersey, John
Summary: During World War II an American Major is placed in charge of the Italian village of Adano.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERKerley, Jack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERSeredy, Kate.
Summary: Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe, where they hope to find a permanent home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SERCerney, Michele
Summary: Joey experiences life without rules, boundaries, or chores and he wants the rules back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HatTrick Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERSummary: A young boy ventures into the woods despite his grandfather's warning, and his courage is tested in an encounter with a wolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PETSeeley, Tim
Summary: From Dusk Till Dawn and American Vampire meet The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in this terrifying tale of the Old West, survival, blood, and monsters. A beautiful vampire must flee monster slayers in New York City and reclaim the ancestral soil that restores her undead flesh. But the world has changed since she was reborn in the New Mexico desert, and now, Constance Der Abend and her loyal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vault Comics 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WESBerney, Louis
Summary: "From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERBerney, Louis
Summary: Frank Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello is turning up dead. Guidry was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. He hits the road to Las Vegas, to see an old associate who might help him vanish....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018