Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILContreras-Rosado, Rosalina.
Summary: Tatiana and Irene visit for the first time their mother's homeland, El Salvador.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WPR Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 ConSummary: Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisor must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer, Walter Raleigh, captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies and secure her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabeth 2008Conte, Cate
Summary: Maddie James has finally given in to her friend Katrina's pleas to open up her cat cafe to more than ten felines: they're now up to fifteen purring friends. In fact, JJ's House of Purrs is making such a splash that she's getting national attention. The East Coast Animal Rescue League is quite interested in the cafe, and so Maddie accepts a request to meet with Jillian Allen, the executive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSummary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURSummary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BACSummary: Lisa Palmer finds herself the owner of a former post office, which has been sitting vacant for this past few years. In hopes of saving the historically magical place in town, she and the towns cast of characters set out to restore it to its former glory. In the process, they find the town's beloved 'Mailbox to Santa' with a letter inside that never made it to the North Pole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Media Productions 2019
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Summary: Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate try to return home after being transported fifty years into the past while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SEDFrancis, Suzanne
Summary: When Jack Skellington becomes tired of Halloween and stumbles upon a secret door that leads to Christmas Town, he becomes excited with the new holiday and decides to take it over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2018
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Summary: It's been labelled a doomsday cult, but the Bastion might be humanity's last hope. Amidst all the lies and chaos, come hear their true story, in their own words. On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion, offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcome new members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them to release their burdens and create a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tital Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMSedita, Francesco.
Summary: Cassie Knight is bubbly, stylish, and super-friendly, the fashion queen at her Texas school. When her father moves the family to Maine, Cassie's in for a huge culture shock.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SEDPacifico, Francesco
Summary: When aspiring filmmaker Lorenzo gets a scholarship to Columbia University, he and his girlfriend Ludovica move to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and fall in with a group of artistically-minded Italian expats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACCanty, Kevin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCanty, Kevin.
Contents: Tokyo, my love.--Aquarium.--Flipper.--Honeymoon.--Tell me what I'm doing.--Red dress.--Sleepwalkers, holding hands.--Little Debbie.--Scarecrow.--Little palaces.--Girlfriend hit by bus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANSummary: "For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRESummary: Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AMECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMECanty, Kevin
Summary: A tale inspired by events in an isolated Idaho mining town in the 1970s traces the experiences of a handful of survivors after a disastrous fire and how they struggle to endure wrenching losses while rebuilding and pursuing dreams made harder by the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANMontaña Ibáñez, Francisco
Summary: "Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONStork, Francisco X.
Summary: Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOStork, Francisco X.
Summary: "Hector has always worked hard and minded his own business. He wants to be captain of his school's chess team, go to college, and help his family make their way to a better life someday. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021