Summary: Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding, armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Despite his cool efficiency, the plot quickly spirals out of control, sending Jay and his hostage on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi, as all the while attractions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEDJacobson, Jennifer
Summary: Winnie, Zoe and Vanessa are going to summer camp for the first time. Winnie worries no one will like her, she won't have a good time, and her father won't make it to Parent's Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JACOsborne, Melissa Jane
Summary: "16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Genius 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OSBSummary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLSummary: A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TRAMeyer, Marissa
Summary: A collection of Lunar chronicles stories explore how Cinder arrived in New Beijing, how Wolf became a brooding soldier, and when Princess Winter and Jacin realized their destinies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYSummary: 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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Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIPSummary: In season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories, and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies. Facing friends and enemies both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS 2023
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Summary: Season One is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan favorites from Season Two of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series follows Captain Pike and the crew in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STAWish, Katia
Summary: After perfecting the art of snowman-building, Raccoon coaches his friends to build their own but their imperfect creations make everyone unhappy until they try again, working together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WISSummary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANGash, Jonathan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASJen, Gish.
Summary: Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUJen, Gish
Summary: An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jen 2020Jen, Gish.
Summary: Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his WASPy wife Blondie have two adopted children of Asian descent, Lilly and Wendy. The girls are a handful, but they are nothing compared to Carnegie's mother. Mama Wong's dislike for Blondie is relentless--so much so that she introduces a Chinese woman named Lan to the household. When Lilly and Wendy begin to favor Lan over their white mother, Blondie clings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENSussman, Elissa
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Hayley Saffitz, a confident, ambitious, aspiring animation director, participates in her idol's summer program but must risk her blossoming relationship with his son if she is to prove she is as talented as the boys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUSSussman, Elissa.
Summary: "A restless young journalist with big dreams interviews a Hollywood heartthrob--and, ten years later, it's clear that their time together meant more than meets the eye in this sexy, engrossing debut novel. Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she's in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she's hired to write a profile of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSMora, Julissa
Summary: Black and white illustrations of common garden insects are paired with different sayings to greet them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duo Press 2017
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Summary: "In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Contents: Who's Irish? -- Birthmates -- The water faucet vision -- Duncan in China -- Just wait -- Chin -- In the American society -- House, house, home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENMora, Julissa
Summary: Family members head into the kitchen to help Abuelita bake a tres leches cake for Papi's birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MORGish, Elliott
Summary: "A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2024