Summary: Ossei is a strong-willed young man who sets out to rescue his mother when their village is raided. His quest leads him to the stronghold of the dreaded King Adanggaman, an arrogant despot who thrives on the slave trade and uses fierce female warriors to enforce his power. One of these Amazons, herself a former slave, falls in love with Ossei, and they escape to the bush.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADASummary: Death at La Fenice : After a famous conductor dies from cyanide poisoning during the intermission of his concert, Brunetti probes into the maestro's past, and uncovers a shocking picture of immorality and ruthlessness, as well as a legion of bitter enemies, some of whom have held a grudge for many decades. Based on Donna Leon's first Comissarrion Brunetti novel which introduced Guido Brunetti...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SONDickens, Charles
Summary: Combines the classic tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future with holiday recipes from four noted cooks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5686 DICSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 3Gibala-Broxholm, Scott.
Summary: After playing with a new human friend, Scary Fright begins behaving strangely--choosing a kitten for a pet, developing a taste for pizza, and drawing rainbows on her wall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday Gibal-BroxholmLakemeier, Martijn
Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WINMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When teenage best friends, Callie and Avery are kidnapped from a tent in their front yard in a sleepy Midwestern town, the entire population of Newell is rocked to its core.But when one of the girls returns twenty-four hours later, her body covered in injuries and zero recollection of what happened, the search is on for the girl who didn’t get away…Callie is still missing, her whereabouts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Blair and Bristol Bellamy’s overprotective parents agreed to let their daughters spend spring break in Oahu, they never anticipated that only one of them would return. What should have been a week of soaking up the Hawaiian sun next to pristine blue waters takes an unexpected turn when Blair wakes up on the beach one morning with no purse, no shoes, and no memory of what happened the night...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMartins, Sara
Summary: A British cop is out of his element after he is sent to the tiny island of Sainte Marie to solve a murder case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 4Murray, Martine
Summary: Molly longs for normalcy but when her mother accidentally turns herself into a tree, Molly must embrace all the things she has tried to run away from.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MURLeavitt, Martine
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like her -- a girl filled with ideas and opinions? Someone gallant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEAMartins, Elsa
Summary: A highly interactive board book with a simple rhyming text and die-cut holes that allow children's fingers to become elephant trunks in a story about a big and a baby elephant. Very little children and their grown-ups can poke their fingers through the holes to become the trunks of Big Elephant and Baby Elephant and tell a simple story. Baby Elephant learns to reach for leaves to munch, suck up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2021
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Summary: Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star...until she's dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating--it could end her career. Her PR team's desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy--not a soft-hearted British...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARMontgomery, Marin
Summary: What does the tragic death of a twenty-seven-year-old Portland beauty have to do with a suburban mother in Houston? Everything. Only Meghan Bishop doesn't know it yet. When the married mother stumbles upon evidence suggesting someone close to her may have ties to the heinous crime the nation can't stop talking about, she's forced to dive headfirst into an ocean of secrets she never knew...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontgomery, Marin
Summary: "From the outside looking in, Sibley Sawyer has a perfect life. As a successful attorney, she's worked hard to get to the top of her game--but when her personal and professional lives implode, Sibley looks for a way to turn the page. Unable to shake the tragic circumstances that caused her to flee her rural Midwestern hometown, Sibley wants nothing more than to reunite with her estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONSummary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELEMartins, Vitor
Summary: The house at Number 8 Sunflower Street tells the stories of three teenagers who have lived within its walls in the 21st century--Ana, a lesbian forced to leave her home, Greg sent to live with his aunt when his parents divorce, and Beto, a would-be photographer living during the COVID pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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Summary: After discovering Wind Rider, an abandoned magical sailboat, Max and Sofia arrive on a beach in Hawaii where, with new friend Laila, they rescue newly-hatched sea turtles. Includes facts about sea turtles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After losing her virginity, seventeen-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOUMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Levin Crowdley stumbles upon evidence that suggests her adoring fiance is behind the murder of her childhood best friend, she knows fleeing from him is the only way to stay alive. But Alec won't be left that easily. In fact, nobody has ever left him and lived to tell. The moment Alec finds their dream home empty and Levin's engagement ring lying in the crib he'd purchased for the baby he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONDumas, Marti
Summary: "While the other girls have always known they were destined to be witches, Hasani is a Wildseed---a stray witch from a family of non-witches, with no background knowledge, no way to control her magic, and a lot to catch up on. 'Wildseed' may be an insultthat the other girls throw at her, but Wildseeds are more powerful than they know. And Hasani will learn that there are ways to use magic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUMMartini, Steve
Summary: When a lawyer friend and his client are murdered outside the San Diego courthouse, attorney Paul Madriani fears he may have been the actual target and takes the case of a suspect he believes may hold the answers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMartini, Steve
Summary: When a fellow attorney is gunned down, Paul Madriani takes on a client who may have been involved in his friend's murder. Conflicted between his duty to his client and the search for the truth, Madriani sets off on a dangerous quest that takes him from California to the jungles of Mexico and the ancient cultures of the Yucatan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003