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Adolescentes du secondaire Bandes dessinées Conteuses Japon Bandes dessinées Good and evil Drama High school girls Comic books, strips, etc Incredible Hulk (Fictitious character) Drama Rakugo Bandes dessinées Rakugo Comic books, strips, etc Superheroes Superheroes Drama Women storytellers Japan Comic books, strips, etcSummary: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOY RATED GSummary: Andy is 17 years old and headed off to college, meaning he doesn't have a place in his life for childhood things. The toys (save for Woody), fearing they'll be packed away in the attic and forgotten about forever, are mistakenly donated to the local daycare facility. There, their wishes to be played with once again are fulfilled all too well. They also meet a new collection of toys, including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOY RATED GSummary: Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NO RATED RCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD NOCCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NOSaramago, José.
Summary: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1998
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Summary: Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSummary: "The Avengers" is a Marvel Superhero movie starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson. Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D, which is an international peacekeeping agency. This two-disc Blu-ray/DVD set is action-packed, with favorite characters such as The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow. Rated PG-13 for inappropriate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie AvengersSuenaga, Yuki
Summary: "As a prominent rookie with a target on her back, Akane takes an opening slot with the goal of clapping back against the veteran futatsume, Rien Konjakuan, who insulted her. While her crisp rakugo performance wows the crowd, Karashi finds something about it worrying... Then, a shocking truth is discovered about Akane's repertoire, leaving her at a huge disadvantage as a zenza. How will Akane...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 AKACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AKA (Book 5)Saramago, José.
Summary: Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago's spellbinding tale begins when an unnamed man, in an unnamed city is suddenly struck blind. In the days that follow, everyone he comes in contact with, in turn comes down with the mysterious condition. As the blindness spreads to epidemic proportions, the government responds by isolating the infected in an abandoned mental hospital where social conditions...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008
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Summary: An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARRogé
Summary: When Roger, a sausage dog who wishes he were human, opens a French fry stand, he hopes he will be so successful people will call him the "French Fry King."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROGSummary: Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of superhumans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2012
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AvCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Avengers 2012SARAMAGO, 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 SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "The enchanting tale of an elephant, his keeper, and their journey through sixteenth-century Europe, based on a true story." ----Book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARWhedon, Joss
Summary: Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) present the explosive, all-new flagship X-Men series, marking a return to classic greatness and the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men! Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men with the express purpose of "astonishing" the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHESuenaga, Yuki
Summary: "Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AKACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUESuenaga, Yuki
Summary: Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AKACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Saramago, José.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, José.
Summary: "On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, understandably, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, funeral directors, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home - families...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SARSummary: A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: Follows the inner thoughts of 11-year old Riley as her five often-conflicting emotions--Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness--are hard at work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015