Summary: Daniel Kremer's Overwhelm the Sky is an epic odyssey of a spiritually shell-shocked man searching for answers in a world of loners, mourners, kooks, seducers, deceivers, and sleepwalkers. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly describes it as 'part noir, part epic journey from inner mind to outer expanses.' Loosely adapted from the 1799 gothic novel Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OVESummary: Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUPGonzalez, Raul
Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GONRuiz, Raul
Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYPRaul the Third
Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernab©♭, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH RAURaul the Third
Summary: Wrestling star El Toro finds support and motivation from coach Kooky Dooky on a practice day when he feels less than inspired.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN RAUReul, Robin
Summary: Told in separate voices, Jack and Hallie, eighteen-year-olds facing separate crises, discover who they are meant to be while taking a spontaneous road trip together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REURaul the Third
Summary: Using their new truck to carry party supplies over the bridge, Little Lobo and his dog Bernabae are stuck in traffic and decide to throw an epic party to pass the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELWientzen, Raoul L.
Summary: From the start of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task, as she understands it, is to glean her life's meaning. From birth, it was obvious that she was unlike other children: she was born without thumbs. The Assembler left out other parts too, for she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIERaúl the Third
Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: " P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries continue to "probe the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In Whiskers of the Lion, Sheriff Bruce Robertsonis charged with finding a young Amish woman on the run from a murderous drug ring so she can testify in federal court. Wrestling with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUSummary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVERaúl the Third
Summary: Luchadore star El Toro teams up with his fighting partner, La Oink Oink, when a post-match mess at the stadium becomes a bit too intimidating to clean up alone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN RAYColón, Raúl
Summary: "When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLReul, Sarah Lynne
Summary: "Would you like a bite of frizzle frazzle hotchy potch? How about a plate of mushy gushy bloobarsh? NERP, says our hero. Nerpity nerpity nerp! (That's 'NO' to you!) With nonsense language and humorously expressive illustrations, this delightfully silly picture book tells the story of two picky eaters--one child, one pet--of indiscriminate species, a multitude of supposedly tasty goodies, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REUReul, Sarah Lynne
Summary: "Nail is stuck. When Nail needs help getting un-stuck, who from the toolbox will be the best tool for the job?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REUBellow, Saul.
Summary: Tommy Wilhelm tries to save himself from drowning under the weight of his own existence as his life comes apart around him after failing in his job, marriage, and investments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELHerzog, Saul
Summary: "Montana, USA. When Lance Spector quit the CIA, he swore he was out for good. One more government lie and he would go off the deep end. They could find someone else to do their dirty work. As far as he was concerned, Washington, Langley, the Pentagon could all go to hell. Yekaterinburg, Russia . A secret Russian expedition returns with a devastating new pathogen, harvested from the frozen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorContact 2022
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Summary: "Moscow, Russia. A massive bombing kills hundreds. Washington DC, USA - The President is terrified the attack is the opening salvo of a new Cold War. Langley, USA with Washington and the Kremlin on the brink of war, Levi Roth has to find out who's behind the attack. There's only one man for the job, but the last anyone saw of him, he was in Moscow, severely wounded, waiting for the help of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorContact 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSaul, John.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SAUSaul, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAULGaus, Paul L.
Summary: When an Amish, or "plain" boy is kidnapped, Bishop Eli Miller reluctantly seeks help from outsiders, the "vain ones" known as English. Pastor Caleb Troyer and Professor Michael Branden, boyhood friends and lifelong residents of the county the Amish and English share, understand better than anyone that the bishop would not have enlisted their help unless it were a matter of gravest concern, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011