Dearman, Lara

Summary: "The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility--but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger. When bones are discovered on Derrible Bay and an elderly resident is violently murdered,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEA

Dairman, Tara

Summary: Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End, until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DAI

Dairman, Tara.

Summary: Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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

Dairman, Tara

Summary: "Two families flee extreme weather in India and come together on a mountaintop"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAI

Dairman, Tara

Summary: "Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAI

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GHO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GHO

Summary: 10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAI

Summary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAG

Summary: United in the face of peril, the brave firefighters, rescue squad members, and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51 are pulled apart by issues beyond their control in the red-hot fifth season. Firehouse Lt. Matt Casey and Gabriela Dawson work to build a safe home for their growing family, even as their life-saving jobs demand their full attention. Rescue Squad Lt. Kelly Severride risks it all,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 5

Summary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015

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

Summary: Picking up one week after the emergency response team stormed Litchfield Penitentiary, the ladies of Litch have been torn apart, literally and figuratively, as they enter a new facility. Now newbies starting at the bottom, they must navigate new rules and power dynamics while getting hazed by inmates and tortured by guards.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORA

Gillen, Aidan

Summary: Follows the adventures of a college professor after the government asks him to investigate UFO sightings and alleged alien encounters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2020

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

Summary: A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JIN

Summary: It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Di

Summary: A story about two old friends and ex-lovers whose surprise reunion turns their lives and the lives of everyone else in town hilariously upside down!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY Bra

Summary: Inspired by real events. When a radical white supremacy terrorist group steals toxic materials in order to build a dirty bomb, FBI Agent Nate Foster goes undercover in order to infiltrate their shadowy underworld. But can Nate find the group's leader and the bomb before his cover is blown?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate Premiere/Grindstone 2016

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY IMP

Thomas, LaLa

Summary: Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High-- until she gets pregnant. Having a baby at sixteen was definitely not part of the plan. Kelly's plan was to dominate junior year grade-wise and on the basketball court, so she can get an athletic scholarship. She intends to be a good auntie, and help Erykah through the pregnancy. Along the way they'll learn some harsh realities about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THO

Vara, Vauhini

Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Zgheib, Yara

Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGH

Carrier, Lark

Summary: Page cutouts and short descriptions give clues to familiar Halloween characters hiding in the pages of this rhyming story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 1999

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CAR

Hveberg, Klara

Summary: "Rakel has a rare talent for math, but she has never mastered the art of making friends. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university, and meets Jakob, a brilliant, older teacher. He is also working on a novel about Sofja Kovalevskaja, the first woman who became a professor in Mathematics. Just as Kovalevskaja was very close to her much older advisor, Rakel and Jakob are instantly drawn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HVE