Summary: Basada en una historia real, Voces inocentes es una cuenta la conmovedora historia de Chava, un niño de once años que atrapado en medio de la guerra civil de los años 80 en El Salvador, tiene que convertirse en "el hombre de la casa" después de que su padre los abandona.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VOCSummary: Follow the intense personal journeys of the young nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. These young pilots barely out of flight school flock to the North to build hours, while young nurses are drawn to the gig for the high-intensity experience and the cash. They're all in over their heads and trying to leave something about their old lives behind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SKYSummary: As Chava nears his twelfth birthday, he and his mother struggle to avoid his conscription in the El Salvadoran army during the civil war of the nineteen eighties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lightyear Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARThompson, Kim Mitzo.
Summary: Learn all about Sophie's family and her dog Thunder. Listen along to the CD, and you will feel you are a part of the family! Read the entire story in Spanish. Then, flip over the book and read the entire story in English!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twin Sisters IP, LLC 2007
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JN Spanish ThompsonSummary: Too-Tall and the gang amuse themselves at Sister's expense by warning her how hard third grade will be and how strict Teacher Jane is. Brother tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Sis not to worry. Mama reminisces about Sister starting kindergarten and reflects on how her daughter's feelings back then were exactly the same. Sure enough, when sister starts grade three she enjoys the new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERPadilla, Francesca
Summary: After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PADCarlin, Mike (Michael)
Summary: Set during the earliest voyages of "The Next Generation" series, join Picard, Riker, Data, Worf, Troi, Yar, and Laforge as they learn about each other and encounter: A de-powered Q who seeks refuge aboard the Enterprise as he attempts to learn what it means to be mortal; A world where warriors see battle as a child's game; A world with dark secrets that threaten both the ship and crew, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2013
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Benko, Kamilla
Summary: When a mysterious sickness strikes Arendelle, Elsa incants a magic spell that she hopes will make her dream of curing the sickness come true, but instead, a sinister dream comes to life--her sister Anna's nightmare of a giant, fearsome wolf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BENBonilla, Lindsay
Summary: Striking a chord with anyone who's ever felt out of sync, this hilarious, offbeat story follows Half Note as she leaves the musical staff because she believes she's not important, until the Composer and staff work to convince her to change her tune and come back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BONBenko, Kamilla
Summary: "Claire Martinson and her sister Sophie have decided to stay in Arden--the magical land they discovered by climbing up a chimney in their great-aunt's manor. If what they've learned is true, the sisters are the last descendants of the royal family, and only a true heir of Arden--with magic in her blookd--can awaken the unicorns. Since Sophie does not have magic, the land's last hope rests on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BENBenko, Kamilla
Summary: Olivia Hayes is excited to finally unlock her magic and attend the new Unicorn Academy, but quickly finds herself caught between embracing her magical abilities, clearing her sister's name of unicorn poaching, and unraveling dark secrets to protect the unicorns and Arden's future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BENBonilla, Rocio
Summary: A sister and brother are bothered by one another until they realize that two siblings might be okay after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Collodi, Carlo
Summary: A wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Editions 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC COLCollodi, Carlo
Summary: Presents the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC COLVarlow, Scarlet
Summary: Brothers Jason and Elliot aren't excited to move in to a new house with their dad after their parents' divorce. When a gremlin type creature starts wreaking havoc in the house, the boys get in trouble and no one believes them. The boys decide to set a trap to prove to everyone they weren't lying once and for all. They just have to learn how to work together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VARKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: Charles Morrow, a high school English teacher who finds it difficult to connect with his autistic son, his college-bound daughter, or his ex-wife, begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian-speaking nun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kallos 2015Kardos, Michael.
Summary: Three ordinary men find themselves completely out of their element, holding a young girl hostage without the slightest idea of what to do next. They are already guilty of kidnapping and robbery. It is only a matter of time before they find out just what else they are capable of. For these four people, three days will decide their fate, between freedom and prison, innocence and guilt, and life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARVarlow, Scarlet
Summary: Shy, mostly friendless Kevin couldn't be more annoyed when his parents sign him up for Nature Crew in an attempt to help him become more sociable. One morning, mysterious stones show up at camp and the boys that take them begin acting strangely. Kevin has to make some unlikely friends to save his fellow campers from the stick bug monsters leaving the stones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED VARCarlan, Audrey
Summary: Unwilling escort Mia Saunders’s journey continues in the second anthology of the Calendar Girl series! In the next three months, Mia heads to Boston, Oahu, and Washington DC. In April, she poses as girlfriend to philandering Mason Murphy, a professional baseball player who needs a better image, only to find he’s not at all what she expected. May finds Mia turning up the heat with Samoan model...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterhouse Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCotta, Carloto
Summary: After losing a game in the World Cup, a famous soccer player finds that people are laughing at him and he sets out on a journey to find redemption through a series of misadventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIAKallos, Stephanie
Summary: Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language. Lately, however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic son, who's about to age out of the system, he prefers the company of the ghosts he turns up in the storage boxes in his crawl space. There he finds the totems...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KALKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: Two very different women, each with her own dark secrets--wealthy, reclusive septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, living alone with her vast collection of priceless antiques, and Wanda Schultz, a brokenhearted young woman in search of her wayward boyfriend--find new meaning and redemption in their growing friendship with each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KALKardos, Michael
Summary: "Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2015