Brainard, Joe
Summary: An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work "I Remember" has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 BRASummary: Thirteen years after her abduction, 26-year-old Ivy Moxam flees the cellar that has held her captive for half her life. But escape is just the beginning of Ivy's story. Just as she's picking up the pieces of the life she was forced to leave behind, a startling discovery leaves everyone scrambling: her former captor has found his next victim. Forced to confront the truth of what happened in that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV THIBrainerd, Amanda
Summary: Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACrowley, John
Summary: Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOLSummary: "One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIDBrainard, Cecilia Manguerra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRALiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUBrynard, Karin
Summary: Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate, as he struggles to train and connect with rookie local cops, Ghaap and Pyl, who resent his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYJo, Jae-eun
Summary: A little girl learns where things are - in her house, in the garden, at the park, and other places - up, down, and middle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the United States and Canada by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOJobe, Lisa
Summary: As a boy searches his backyard for the perfect pet, his mother asks him to consider where a squirrel, frog, or bird would like to live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JOBSARAMAGO, JOSE
Summary: An illustrated fable on dreaming the impossible. The hero is a man who asks a king for a boat to search for an unknown island. How can you search for something unknown? Well, it turns out you can, provided you are willing to follow your dreams, and what is more your dreams may come true. By the author of The Stone Raft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSummary: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Inc. 1999
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Summary: Sea Otter Pup spends the first months of his life with his mother in a protected cove off the California coast, learning how to hunt for food and care for himself, before venturing out into the dangers of the Pacific Ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soundprints 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BOYSaramago, Jose
Summary: Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background-the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar’s life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers’ lives until the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARPimienta, Jose
Summary: Luis Fernando and Luisa Teresa are twins who learn about who they are and what their sibling means to them when they are sent to different middle schools.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BARBarnard, Robert.
Summary: Detective Inspector Charlie Peace and his wife, Felicity, are shocked when Felicity's difficult dad, Rupert Coggenhoe, suddenly announces he's moving north to their Yorkshire village. Felicity has never much liked her father, and to have him as a near-neighbor fills her with foreboding. The boorish old man has always loved to impress the ladies, young and old, by exaggerating his modest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnard, Sara
Summary: When her best friend runs away with a teacher, Eden is forced to question her friendship and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Barnard 2019Barnard, Robert.
Summary: Seventeen mystery stories feature everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCoe, Jonathan.
Contents: The chick and the hairy guy -- The very maws of doom -- Green coaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COERoe, Monica
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Juniper travels to Alaska to take part in a bowhunt in the Tongass National Forest, and when she ends up on the hunt with local boy Ben they both have to learn to work together and respect each other's skills if they want to succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series Wild RoePimienta, Jose
Summary: "Beatriz loves music. More than her school, more than her friends, and definitely more than her homework. After Beatriz discovers that her grandfather's soul is trapped in his guitar, she becomes determined to get him out. But the only way to free him is to play the perfect song... his perfect song, a song that he never actually wrote down. Fixated on freeing her grandfather, music slowly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PIMZuniga, Jose
Summary: Two half brothers go on a road trip together in hopes of tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the US.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021