Deming, Sarah
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2019
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Summary: "Quito Cruz might be a composing and piano genius, but he's a few notes short of success. Broadway, here I don't come. But Quito knows what the problem is. Or rather who. Because ever since that night in college-with pretty-boy jock Emmett Aoki--his inspiration has been completely MIA ... Now Quito's beloved dad wants him to put on a charity performance in his hometown. And there's one hella...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMWest, Dominic
Summary: Follows the affair between a married waitress and a teacher who spends his summer at his in-laws' home on Long Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AFFSmith, Dominic
Summary: "This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2016Betancourt, Ingrid
Summary: "From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate. Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world's most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BETSmith, Dominic
Summary: "Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISmith, Dominic
Summary: "The story of an heir's return to an abandoned town in Italy, the secrets of the family who stayed, and the long shadow of fascism and collaboration in World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISmith, Dominic.
Summary: Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISummary: Chile 1990, at the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a group of adolescents living in a commune, attempt to make sense of their own burgeoning desires and tangled relationships while the adults prepare for the first New Year's Eve under the promise of democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOOSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMSummary: Irena is a mysterious Ukrainian woman with a secret who works her way into the lives of an Italian, affluent young family. She stops at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter. But deep cracks underneath Irena's dedication soon become apparent as her horrific past and chilling obsession are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNKSummary: An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BANSummary: Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, decides to tag along on vacation with her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. Things quickly go awry when they accidentally rent the car some incompetent criminals are using for a drop. Pursued across state lines by goons, and aided by Jamie's ex, who is a cop, the two are oblivious to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DRISummary: Sweet, awkward sixteen-year-old Ruby Gillman is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She's math-tutoring her skater-boy crush, who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she's prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom, has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water. But when she breaks her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact. But when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman, he may be tempting fate by stepping out of the shadows. Jack soon finds himself in an escalating battle to escape from his secretive past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMESummary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CANSummary: As it returns for Season 4, families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent area of the U.S.-Mexico border. After international lines were done away with following the world's end, the characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: Long ago, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. The King of Qin was most determined to become the first emperor of China. Though many tried to assassinate him, only three inspired fear. The King promised endless wealth and power to anyone who defeats his would-be murderers. No results come until ten years later, when a man called Nameless brought the weapons of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HERCage, Nicolas
Summary: While still struggling with the curse of the Ghost Rider, Johnny agrees to save a young boy from the Devil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHOSummary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALAGavaldon, Roberto
Summary: Tells the story of an immigrant family in Spain of the 19th century struggling to establish a farm amidst the hostility of the townspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Returning but not on land, action packed and boat adventures await. Constant threats made after the last escape from land. Truly makes protecting one another the most important on the unsafe waters. Just because zombies can't swim, doesn't mean there isn't anything to be worried about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019