Summary: Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEICallison, Zach
Summary: Adventures of a young boy and the Crystal Gems, his human-like alien friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STEDysart, Joshua
Summary: GRAPHIC NOVELS. At last - the essential origins and early adventures of Valiant's most powerful heroes and allies, collected between two covers for the first time anywhere! Celebrate 25 years of the largest independent superhero universe in comics with these all-star explorations of Valiant's indelible comics book icons, including X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Valiant Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VALHines, Zach
Summary: In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HINKing, Zach
Summary: Award-winning digital media star Zach King brings his unique brand of magic to the first installment of a lively, fun-filled trilogy about Zach, a middle schooler in search of his magical powers while navigating the crazy, confusing world of public school. Everyone in Zach King's family has a magical power. His father can turn back time, his sister can turn invisible, and his mother can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KINSmith, Zach
Summary: "In small-town Deerburbia, young superhero Dolphin Girl and her dad, Captain Dugong, run a popular tropical-themed restaurant. Pizza Paradise! also doubles as their hideout. And danger is never far away! One day, while Dad is training Dolphin Girl in signature moves (Blowhole cannon! Extreme breath holding!), they get word that their rivals are up to no good. It's time to swim into action! But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel + Ink 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SMIWeinersmith, Zach
Summary: "Listen! Hear a tale of mallow-munchers and warriors who answer candy's clarion call! Somewhere in a generic suburb stands Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary where generations of tireless tykes have spent their youths making merry, spilling soda, and staving off the shadow of adulthood. One day, these brave warriors find their fun cut short by their nefarious neighbor Grindle, who can no longer...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Love Spell 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CACSummary: After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERCallison, Zach
Summary: Adventures of a young boy and the Crystal Gems, his human-like alien friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STEGalifianakis, Zach
Summary: Due to financial difficulties and his inability to learn French, Chip Baskets flunks out of clown school in France, returning home to California to live with his mother and work as a rodeo clown while confronting his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASPowers, Zach
Summary: "A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cold War, the Russian space program, and the amazing fraud that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world. It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Powers 2019Lach, William
Summary: In association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art Now the best-selling series Can You Find It? in a great new format! Similar to Abrams best-selling series, Can You Find It? , in this book, young readers are introduced to great music through great works of art. From "The Flight of the Bumblee" to "The Four Seasons" to "Night on Bald Mountain," beloved music is illustrated by great works of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine LachSummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDDesarthe, Agnes.
Summary: At forty-three , Myriam has been a wife, mother, and lover—but never a restauranteur. When she opens Chez Moi in a quiet neighborhood in Paris, she has no idea how to run a business, but armed only with her love of cooking, she is determined to try. Barely able to pay the rent, Myriam secretly sleeps in the dining room and bathes in the kitchen sink, while struggling to come to terms with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2008
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Summary: In 1963 Brittany, 18-year-old Josephine Chevalier uncovers a shocking secret about her mother that leads her to Paris where she learns the story of a forbidden love as a city fought for its freedom--and of a betrayal so deep, it changed two young lives forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUDruart, Ruth
Summary: A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUDewar, Isla.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWEwart, Claire.
Summary: As the seasons pass on the family farm after her mother's death, a young girl searches for the giant that her mother said would look after her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EWARowan-Zoch, Julie
Summary: "An exasperated hare mistaken for a rabbit by a chipmunk claiming to be a squirrel engage in a giggle-inducing battle of wits that reveals the distinctions between similar-looking species, from turtles and tortoises to sheep and goats"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROWSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATDesai, Kiran
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007