Summary: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMOSummary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: Talented aspiring violinist Finley meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small village in Ireland. An unexpected romance develops as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous revival, and she inspires him to take charge of his future until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Roadside Attractions LLC 2021
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ROMANCE FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FINBache, Ellyn.
Summary: Paisley Lamm's terminal cancer helps her and her four friends suddenly appreciate their memorable life experiences, their own families and their lifestyles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACBlakeslee, Vanessa
Summary: "Growing up as the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, teenaged Mercedes Martinez knows a world of maids, armed guards, and private drivers. When she falls in love with Manuel, a fiery young activist with a passion for his faith and his country, she begins to understand the suffering of the desplazados who share her land. A startling discovery about her father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLADiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoeder, Vanessa
Summary: Using a cardboard box as his home when he is born without a shell, Terrance the turtle enjoys the uniqueness and versatility of his home until another turtle’s insensitive remarks make him question his differences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROECopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROEBausch, Robert
Summary: "When Skip Granger, the assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, first sees Jesse Smoke, she is on the beach in Belize. And she has just thrown a regulation football a mile. Granger knows that Smoke's talent is unprecedented for a woman, and nearly unparalleled among men. As Granger observes her throughout a season as quarterback for the Washington Divas of the Independent Women's Football...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUGray, Anissa
Summary: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gray 2019Marufu, Aneesa
Summary: Escaping from an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Khadija finds an unlikely ally in a poor young glassmaker's apprentice, and as a deadly revolution exploits forbidden magic, threatening their friendship, they must choose what kind of world they want to live in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARGray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMasessa, Ed
Summary: "An old dog wants nothing more than to take a nap, but a musical mouse makes this impossible. Through rhyming text and a series of funny letters, the miscommunication between the two builds to a surprising ending."--Jacket flap
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2021
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Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIFHua, Vanessa
Summary: "In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUALafaye, Vanessa.
Summary: Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become--unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAFMarshall, Vanessa
Summary: The crew of the starship Ghost battle against the evil Empire to try and bring peace back to the galaxy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STARedgrave, Vanessa
Summary: After his wife has given up on him and left him for his former best friend, a failed artist descends into madness and tries to win her back by performing various bizarre escapades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MORRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace. Can they find common ground and learn to work together?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself, her mother, and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter. Based on the true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILActon, Vanessa
Summary: "A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy's town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017