Summary: Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA NOM

Guilbert, Jean-Claude

Summary: Teenaged Mouchette finds solace in nature and routine as she takes care of her baby brother while her mother lies dying and her alcoholic father is absent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOU

Summary: Caye, a Madrid prostitute, comes to the aid of Zulema, a Dominican streetwalker beaten by a government official blackmailing her for free sex. They form a strong bond and imagine themselves as royalty, to offer them a glimpse of hope.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRI

Vande Zande, Jeff

Summary: Jeff Vande Zande's latest story collection travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood. From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners and Orwellian gated communities, these stories grow ever more surreal, holding a darkened mirror up to that which we are-and may become.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade press 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Summary: Cyrano is a brilliant but hideously ugly poet, trying to get his true love, Roxanne.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CYR

Bandi

Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Vande Zande, Jeff

Summary: Rules of Order tells the story of Harvey Crowe, a community activist, who lives in what could be the last remaining high-rise building in a wrecked city. Cracks in the ground-floor apartments are appearing exponentially. The building's structural strength can't possibly hold the load it bears. Crowe works to inform tenants on the upper floors that the weight of their possessions could bring the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Montag Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Summary: Two-time Critics Choice Award-winner Tatiana Maslany returns in the pulse-racing third season of Orphan Black. After the shocking discovery of Project Castor, Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missing twin Helena and an ailing Cosima searches for the key to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ORP

Vande Zande, Jeff.

Summary: Detroit Muscle is a fearless examination of family and of loss, a picaresque novel about putting these shattered pieces of our lives together again - to examine them, to understand them, and to see how, if at all possible, we can move past them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Vande Zande, Jeff.

Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Cormier, Robert.

Summary: After serving in the United States Army in World War II and having his face blown off by a grenade, Francis, a young soldier, returns home hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC Cormi

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 TWI

Baume, Sara

Summary: "A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another ... They make a promise to climb the mountain, but--over the course of the next seven years--it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAU

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Cormier, Robert

Summary: A high-school freshman who refuses to participate in the annual fund-raising chocolate sale is forced to defend his convictions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COR

Corrieri, Sergio

Summary: In the early 1960s, a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, is also too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEM

Gordimer, Nadine.

Summary: From www.bloomsbury.com: Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gardners Books 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PAC

Baume, Sara

Summary: "A debut novel already praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride) this captivating story follows -- over the course of four seasons -- a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored,even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAU

Corriher, Kurt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Fortier, Anne

Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key, one carried by her mother on the day she herself died, to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. In Siena she discovers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC FOR

Gordimer, Nadine.

Summary: The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

Gordimer, Nadine.

Summary: A collection of short fictional works offers insight into the author's use of rich language to convey themes ranging from politics and sexuality to race and family life, in a volume that includes such pieces as "Friday's Footprint" and "Something Out There."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

Fortier, Anne

Summary: Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse. Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOR

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAC