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Summary: When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After hearing a story by the campfire, domesticated Boog is terrified by the story and decides to 'chicken out' of their annual summer camping trip until he knows the werewolf is gone. Determined to help Boog overcome his fears, Elliot and their woodland friends band together to scare the fear out of Boog and uncover the mystery of the Wailing Wampus Werewolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OPESummary: Fantasia: Features a blend of animation set to classical music, and live action scenes of the orchestra. Pieces include: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, The Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FANSummary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Duval, Kathy.
Summary: After taking a walk on Christmas Eve while their freshly baked gingerbread cools, Papa, Mama, and Baby Bear arrive home to encounter another "trespasser," who does not have golden hair but wears a red suit and leaves presents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2005
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE DUVSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SCHSchine, Cathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDDuvall, Dianne
Summary: After a spaceship is attacked, an Earthling survivor, Eliana, is finally rescued by Commander Dagon. As he and Eliana hunt for her missing friends, a bond grows between them, until Eliana becomes the hunted one.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUVKoen, Karleen.
Summary: An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Assuming the responsibilities of governing France after the death of his prime minister, Louis XIV embarks on a love affair with his sister-in-law, Henriette, triggering a scandal that is complicated by a finance minister's growing power and a mysterious boy with an iron mask.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: In the early 1700s, recently widowed Barbara Montgeoffry, the 20-year-old Countess of Devan whose husband died in scandalous circumstances, sails to Virginia for a change of air and takes over management of a family tobacco plantation. In Virginia she creates a stir with her conquests--despite being in mourning--and by freeing slaves. Disturbing news from England, however, send her home to take...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEDuvall, Robert
Summary: When talented young golfer Luke Chisolm blows his shot at making the professional tour, he escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself stranded in Utopia, Texas, where he meets rancher Johnny Crawford who helps him see life from a new perspective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEVSchine, Cathleen
Summary: "The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is inactuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCHSummary: Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Daly, Cathleen.
Summary: After her parents get divorced, Emily finds comfort in making and learning about art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DALBarnhart, Cathleen
Summary: Told in two voices, middle-schoolers Sammie and David's long-term friendship is endangered when new student Luke begins flirting with Sammie just when David decides to confess his crush on her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARSchine, Cathleen
Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen
Summary: "Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Canine companions compel their masters to go outside themselves, take part in the Manhattan community they live in, make friends, and fall in love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Greta finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her grown daughter, Elizabeth, by the increasingly eccentric behavior of her widowed mother, and by unexpectedly falling in love with someone other than her devoted husband.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003