Summary: Michael Peterson was 19 years old in 1974. Reckless, and hoping to make a name for himself, he picked up a homemade sawed-off shotgun and set off to rob a post office. Caught and arrested soon after, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison. Ultimately, Peterson ended up behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which were spent in solitary confinement. While incarcerated, his alter ego,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BROSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Constant 2006Summary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONSummary: A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHEDe Niro, Robert
Summary: When an aging comedian trying to make a comeback is sentenced to community service for accosting an audience member, he meets the daughter of a real estate mogul and the pair find inspiration in each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDMackall, Dandi Daley
Summary: "Everyone knows that war romances never last . . . After a whirlwind romance and wedding, Helen Eberhart Daley, an army nurse, and Lieutenant Frank Daley, M.D., are sent to the front lines of Europe with only letters to connect them for months at a time. Surrounded by danger and desperately wounded patients, they soon find that only the war seems real--and their marriage more and more like a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mackall 2017Mackall, Dandi Daley
Summary: Playful rhymes and illustrations are paired with scriptural passages to celebrate the blessings of spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Kids 2015
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: J 231.7 MACMackall, Dandi Daley.
Summary: During the Great Depression, Jack helps his mother make cookies for the needy at their church, learns the story of how the first Christmas cookies were used to spread the gospel to people who could not read, then finds a way to bring that story to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MacMackall, Dandi Daley
Summary: After being dropped off at her grandmother's house, a young girl and her grandmother spend the evening dancing to rock and roll music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACSenna, Danzy
Summary: As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSummary: "There is no dispute. The Warner Bros. Cartoons are the funniest animated shorts in all of film history, and its classic cartoon stars Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Porky Pig, The Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote, to name but a few are the most popular of all time. This second collection of rarely seen gems - all presented here for the first time on Blu-ray - features twenty-five more titles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The reader follows Waldo as he hikes around the world and must try to find him in illustrations of some of the crowded places he visits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANHandford, Martin
Summary: "Where's Waldo? In the spotlight ... somewhere! Now that the rest of the scene has gone dark, finding him is a new challenge"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: The reader follows Waldo and other characters as they travel through various scenes and tries to find them and their lost objects in the illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANRodriguez, Fanny
Summary: This is the tale of Nathan, an ordinary human (or so he thinks) living an ordinary life (or so he wishes). Everything changes when he meets Haven, a mysterious creature who is neither human nor volken. Nathan soon learns he has mysterious powers, even though humans aren't supposed to have magic. But there's no time to dwell on that because this discovery sets the group on a perilous quest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RODRainsford, Sue
Summary: Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAIHosford, Kate.
Summary: Fed up with the unbearably dull hairstyles of her classmates, Annabelle wrangles her hair into a giant bouffant hairdo to be different--until her new style becomes the trend to follow!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Hosford 2011Handford, Martin.
Summary: The reader follows Waldo as he travels through different time periods in history and must try to find him in the illustrations of some of the crowded events in which he participates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANHandford, Martin.
Summary: Invites young fans to comb through intricately detailed spreads to find the ever-elusive Waldo and several other cleverly obscured objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HanCates, Donny
Summary: In GODCOUNTRY, readers meet Emmett Quinlan, an old widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn't just a problem for his children--his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle. When a tornado levels his home--as well as the surrounding West Texas town--a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage. An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him more than a sound mind and body,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CATHandford, Martin
Summary: The reader is invited to find Waldo in the detailed illustrations of several crowded Hollywood movie sets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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Summary: "Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate search-and-find champion? Are your eagle eyes in focus? Waldo summons you to a search-off! Just take a seat opposite a friend or family member and open up this book of adventures, designed to lie perfectly flat between you so each can search one side of the spread. Try racing against the clock or go head-to-head with your fellow Waldo-hunter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023