Summary: An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STIContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN
Summary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUNTamura, Yumi.
Summary: Rescue workers Rei and Uozumi were looking for earthquake survivors when they uncovered man-made violence. Then their squad was attacked and murdered. Some secret lurks in those ruins. To find it, Rei and Uozumi join a privately funded hostage rescue organization run out of a Tokyo bar called Chicago. They help people while they look for their own salvation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHITamura, Yumi.
Summary: When rescue workers try to help Tokyo after a great earthquake, Rei discovers that the team's members are murdered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIWebber, Tammara.
Summary: After rescuing her in a chance encounter, Lucas becomes attracted to Jacqueline, but the past he's worked so hard to overcome and the future she's put so much faith in threaten to tear them apart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBAlexander, Tamera
Summary: Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted Confederate soldier he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin. Catriona leaves their Irish homeland in search of him with their seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, hoping to reunite the siblings. Wade Cunningham is a former...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Tamera.
Summary: McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P ALEAlexander, Tamera
Summary: From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALEThorne, Tamara.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOPizzoli, Tamara
Summary: Tallulah the Tooth Fairy, a black businesswoman who runs one of the most successful tooth collecting organizations in the world, finds herself unexpectedly stumped when six-year-old Ballard Burchell leaves a note instead of his tooth under his pillow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALEAlexander, Tamera
Summary: A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville hoping to buy land and begin farming, determined to stay as far away from thoroughbred racing as possible. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2015
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Summary: Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight. When Alanna became the King's Champion, it was decided that girls would henceforth be allowed to train for the knighthood. But ten years have passed, and no girls have come forward. Now, however, someone is about to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIEPierce, Tamora.
Summary: Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIEPierce, Tamora.
Summary: Alanna continues to create her own life as a female warrior when she and new companions journey to the Roof of the World seeking the powerful Dominion Jewel, perhaps the last hope of saving her country from dissension and hostile magic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIEPierce, Tamora.
Summary: The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIEGrantham, Tamara
Summary: Gothel, a witch, is being punished for the actions of her mother. Her choice is simple: either she stands guard over Princess Rapunzel-- or she dies. Protecting Rapunzel means watching as the princess lays trapped in a tower, bedridden by hair that is so long and heavy it's slowly driving her insane. When a prince and his squire appear at the tower, they need the only object that can cut...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clean Teen Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRABundy, Tamara
Summary: Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNBundy, Tamara
Summary: After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Bundy 2017Pierce, Tamora.
Summary: The Legend of Beka Cooper gives Tamora Pierce's fans exactly what they want, a smart and savvy heroine making a name for herself on the mean streets of Tortall's Lower City, while offering plenty of appeal for new readers as well.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PIEPierce, Tamora.
Summary: Residents of the island of Starns send for help from Winding Circle temple, and when prickly green mage Rosethorn and young stone mage trainee Evvy respond, Evvy finds that the problem is with a long-dormant volcano and tries to use her talents to avert the looming destruction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIEPierce, Tamora.
Summary: After becoming a squire to Lord Raoul, commander of the King's Own, Kel of Mindelan, must face a terrifying test in the Chamber of the Ordeal before she can be a knight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: When messengers arrive in Gyongxe "inviting" Dedicate Initiate Rosethorn and her two young companion mages, Evumeimei and Briar, to court to celebrate the birthday of the Emperor of Yanjing, Rosethorn is eager to go, but Briar suspects that there is an ulterior motive behind the invitation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 0000