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African Americans Race identity Fiction Babysitting Fiction Board books Cultural property Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.) Drama Horror stories Reformatories for women Connecticut Danbury Drama Stories in rhyme Supernatural Fiction Women prisoners Connecticut Danbury DramaBarnes, Brynne
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text reveal many fantastic things that can be found in a book, if only a reader will take it from the shelf and open it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BARBarnes, Brynne
Summary: Rhyming text describes all the out-of-this-world things a mother dreams of doing with her child once they are born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARWeaver, Brynne
Summary: "When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2023
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Summary: To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JEFWeaver, Brynne
Summary: "Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Slowburn, a Zando Imprint 2024
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Summary: To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past, uncovering shocking and unexpected tales of ancestors--Black, Indigenous, and white--in the deep South.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEFBarone, Tracy
Summary: Cheri Matzner, a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, tries to come to terms with her adoptive and biological families as she struggles to become pregnant herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGibby, Bayne.
Summary: A sweet rhyming story about a mother's love for her child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMBShepherd, Kat
Summary: When babysitter Rebecca discovers that a sinister ruler of darkness has replaced the baby with a changeling, she and her friends must save him by surviving a chilling journey through the Nightmare Realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018
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Summary: A lively bedtime story for sleep-resistant young superheroes reveals how after a hard day of fighting crime, superheroes take baths, wash their clothes, and tuck in to get the rest they need to continue saving the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOCSummary: A comatose five-year-old girl travels through a darkly surreal industrial wonderland, haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears. Through her fear, she must follow her mother's voice -- staticky and cutting out -- to find her way back to consciousness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Dory, a computer programmer experiencing a crisis of faith, is laid off from his job and must resort to cleaning toilets with a brown-collar band of janitorial misfits. Unbeknownst to him, he is made the subject of a bizarre experiment involving addictive cookies that simulate oven freshness by warming in your mouth. The cookies cause spectacular visions, wild mood swings, and quasi-pregnancies...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marketed and ditributed in the U.S. by New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMMShepherd, Kat
Summary: While babysitting an actor's daughter, Maggie and her three friends investigate the strange events happening during the rehearsals for a play at the old movie palace that has been turned into a theater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHEWatts, Naomi
Summary: While vacationing in Thailand in December 2004, a family overcomes impossible odds to survive the Indian Ocean tsunami and find each other after becoming separated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IMPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMP RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ImCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPSummary: When video game villain Wreck-It Ralph grows tired of his role, he goes on an action-packed adventure to prove that he is a true hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DISSummary: A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist: a human. News of this throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all-new story about friendship, courage, and the joy of discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SMACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SMACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SmSummary: Based on real-life events. Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: After a lifetime of being overlooked and ignored, Doris finds her world turned upside down by a handsome new coworker and a self-help guru that inspires her to take a chance on love. A witty and compassionate late-life coming-of-age story that will make you cheer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HELL RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hello 2016Summary: When his brother dies, Jake, a 30-year-old cardiologist, is called upon to marry the widow, Leah, under orthodox Jewish law. While initially just going through the motions to satisfy their mothers, the two soon find themselves in love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoZier-Vogel, Lindsay
Summary: "Alice loves her neighborhood. She loves the maples trees and marigolds and the colorful balconies on her street. But -- "grumble, grumble, more construction" -- it seems not everyone does. "Poor street," says Alice, then she has an idea. "Dear Street ..." she begins to write, and when she's finished writing her love letter, she hides it for someone to find. A grumpy neighbor discovers the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZIESummary: When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jurassic 2018Summary: Picking up one week after the emergency response team stormed Litchfield Penitentiary, the ladies of Litch have been torn apart, literally and figuratively, as they enter a new facility. Now newbies starting at the bottom, they must navigate new rules and power dynamics while getting hazed by inmates and tortured by guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORASummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014