Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: The classic comedy caper is about two cunning conmen on the French Riviera. The caddish Freddy Benson enjoys setting up elaborate ruses to seduce women. The suave Lawrence Jameson likes to pose as a prince to swindle the wealthy. When the two men meet, each perceives the other as an interloper and a threat. Upon the arrival of vacationing soap heiress Janet Walker, the two sweet -talking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONSummary: Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDHeling, Kathryn.
Summary: In rhyming text, ten lucky leprechauns play in the woods, in a book introducing both St. Patrick's Day and the numbers one through ten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE HELHolling, Holling Clancy.
Summary: The story of a cottonwood tree growing on the Great Plains, and its contributions to the history of the Southwest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1970
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLHolling, Holling Clancy.
Summary: A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1969
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLHeling, Kathryn.
Summary: By dropping the first letter of a variety of words, Mouse makes several new rhyming words.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE HelMario, Helaine
Summary: In 1945, an Austrian girl discovers a priceless Nazi treasure near a remote alpine lake and sets in motion a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come. Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O'Shea is preparing her return to the world of music. Instead, a nightmare of a haunting rhapsody and hundreds of roses from a deranged stalker propel her into a world of terror....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMelling, David
Summary: "As Ruffles learns about the world around him, he discovers there are lots of things he likes . . . and some things he doesn't! He loves scratching, digging, and chewing, but he does not like wearing his red coat on rainy days. No, no, no, no, NO! But when Ruffles wants to splash in puddles with his best friend, Ruby, he soon learns that sometimes wearing a raincoat is a very good idea after...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MELHeling, Kathryn
Summary: In this story told in a rhyming beat, kindergarteners fondly remember their school year, excitedly attend graduation, and eagerly look forward to first grade.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HELHeling, Kathryn.
Summary: By dropping the first letter of a variety of words and adding a new letter, Mouse makes several rhyming words.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE HELHeldring, Thatcher
Summary: In the summer before high school, Tessa's decision to play football, instead of running cross-country, affects her blossoming romance with football prospect Caleb, her relationship with best friends Marina and Lexie, who are counting on Tessa to try out for cross-country, and her home life with her politically ambitious mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION HELHolling, Clancy.
Summary: An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton 1948
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLHoling, Dwight
Summary: Nick Drake is a troubled Vietnam War veteran seeking redemption as a game warden. But when an Air Force pilot from a nearby base plummets onto a refuge, Nick is plunged into a deadly showdown with the military. Murders ensue, and he turns to his Paiute neighbors to bring justice to the pitiless desert.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLHoling, Dwight
Summary: Living is hard on the high lonesome, but dying is easy. When two of Nick Drake's oldest Paiute friends disappear during a robbery of ancient relics that leads to a double murder, his race to find them puts him on a collision course with an obsessed killer. And that's only for starters. A plane crash on a snowy mountainside after a wedding and with a baby on the way leads to a desperate fight...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLHerring, Peg.
Summary: Book Two of the Loser Mysteries delves deeper into who Loser is--or who she was before the street person named Loser appeared. Determined to help a teenaged boy in crisis, she's pulled back into the world of normal people. But the normal world can be as dangerous as the streets of Richmond. Is Loser ready to handle both a home and a homicide?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHoling, Dwight
Summary: "Hollywood comes to the High Lonesome to make a Western, but not all the showdowns and bodies that fall are make-believe. Nick Drake confronts a double-feature of murder and mysticism when Sheriff Pudge Warbler enlists him to catch a killer among the movie stars and film crew turning Harney County into a celluloid version of the Old West. At the same time, he runs afoul of a sinister gold...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLGalusha, Tadd
Summary: A fictional imagining of a Tyrannosaurs Rex's journey across the prehistoric island continent of Laramidia during the late Cretaceous period; includes a Cretaceous field guide to the animals of the period.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press, Inc. 2019
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Summary: Set in Oregon's high desert in 1968, wildlife ranger Nick Drake must solve a string of murders while recovering from his recent experience on the battlefields of the Vietnam War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLSummary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDMelling, David
Summary: "Eyeing the new green thing in his bowl with distaste, Ruffles refuses to try even the smallest nibble until his friend Ralph comes to play, happily giving the green thing a big bite, which encourages Ruffles to give it try, too!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MELMelling, David
Summary: Come on an alphabet adventure with Duck. Duck is a magician. Abracadabra! He can conjure up a bunny, a chicken and even the king of the jungle. But can he make a dragon disappear?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2017