Summary: A determined young woman from southern Ohio is handed her ticket out of a dying industrial town when she's accepted to college. To pay her way, she joins her brother on a dangerous scrap metal crew which steals from the once-thriving factories at night, then mans the scrapyard during the day. With her goal in sight, Ruth discovers that the ultimate cost for an education for a girl like her may...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ASPSummary: When a ship carrying two thousand humans setting out to colonize a distant planet encounters a system failure, they land on a moon and discover a race of hostile aliens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ALIJestin, Victor
Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JESHalperin, Hanna
Summary: "By the author of Something Wild, a gripping portrait of a tumultuous, consuming relationship between a young woman and a recovering addict When Leah Kempler meets Charlie Nelson in line at the grocery store, their connection is immediate and intense. Charlie, with his big feelings and grand proclamations of love, captivates her completely. But there are peculiarities of his life-he's older...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHalpern, Julie
Summary: "Tenth graders Eliana and Dmitri could not be more different. He's an outgoing, self-confident drummer in a punk band called Unexpected Turbulence. Eliana is introspective and thoughtful, and a movie buff who is living with depression. Dmitri quite literally falls for Eliana when he sees her in gym class and slams into a classmate. The pair then navigate the ins and outs of first love....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HALHalpern, Sue
Summary: "People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Halpern 2018Halpern, Adena.
Summary: When young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old Ellie Jerome finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, she wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a wish like that to come true?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHalpern, Jake
Summary: "After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in America. Among the few refugees to receive visas, they finally landed in JFK airport on November 8, 2016, Election Day. The family had reached a safe harbor, but woke up to the world of Donald Trump and a Muslim ban that would sever them from the grandmother, brothers, sisters, and cousins...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALDHalpern, Julie
Summary: After her father's accidental death, Alex refocuses on her family life only to learn that her friend, Becca, is dying of cancer, a situation that compels Alex to help Becca complete a bucket list.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HALHalpern, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALKorman, Justine.
Summary: Simba believes he is responsible for the death of his father, the king, and flees--but returns to claim his kingdom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROB QG #4Robson, Justina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBHalpern, Julie
Summary: In a world where the name of one's "meant to be" mate appears on one's chest at age eighteen, Aggy must decide whether to trust the phenomenon or follow her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2017
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Summary: A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer, and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HALBuntin, Julie
Summary: "An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Buntin 2017Ireland, Justina
Summary: The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father--a man she's never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby--she doesn't have much of a choice. At least, she thinks, she won't have to spend much time with him--something that becomes clear when he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IREIreland, Justina
Summary: When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018