Summary: An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LivingSummary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARSummary: After he is dumped by his fiancee, Vera, British artist, Colin, flees to the village of Hope in New England to bury himself in his art. Colin ends up sulking about in a small Vermont hotel run by Joanie. When Joanie becomes aware of Colin's broken heart, she decides to match him up with a local woman named Mandy. But just as romance begins to ensue between Colin and Mandy, Vera suddenly shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD DumboHertmans, Stefan
Summary: "The Middle Ages have just begun when Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous French family, falls in love with David Todros, a student at the city's yeshiva, and the son of a rabbi. To be together, they must flee their city, Vigdis renouncing a life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father's knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHertmans, Stefan
Summary: "In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHermans, Willem Frederik
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCollins, Olive
Summary: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics, neglecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCollins, Olive
Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLClover, Andrew
Summary: Ten-year-old Rory Branagan teams up with his neighbor, Cassidy Corrigan, and canine sidekick, Wilkins Welkin, to investigate his father's disappearance seven years before, but first gets caught up in neighborhood mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLOBoehm, Deborah Boliver.
Contents: The Samurai goodbye -- The fire down below -- An itching in the heart -- The beast in the mirror -- Hungry ghosts in love -- The undead of Uguisudani -- The snake spell -- Naked in the moonlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOEPoliner, Elizabeth
Summary: Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLHesse, Hermann
Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESBliven, Julie
Summary: A quiet boy, called too shy, notices objects that might also be labelled shy, from the slow-rising sun to seedlings slow to sprout, and shows that in the right situation, he is not quiet or shy at all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLIDunrea, Olivier
Summary: Gemma is a small yellow gosling who likes to explore and her little brother Gus likes to follow her, but one day, Gus sets out to explore on his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: While enjoying his solitary trek through the barnyard, Gus the gosling finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE DUNDunrea, Olivier.
Summary: Gideon is a small gosling who likes to play so much that he will not stop to take a nap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E DUNDunrea, Olivier.
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Ollie and the other goslings anxiously await the arrival of Father Christmas Goose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JBR ORANGE DUNHesse, Hermann
Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1976
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Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes an intricate web of love, magic, and rival witch families in New York City. In modern-day Manhattan where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal empires. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters - each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless - and their mother, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlake, Olivie
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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Summary: When Pearl, a little gosling who loves to sing all day long, loses her voice, she discovers that, with the support of her friends, she can handle anything that comes her way!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUNDunrea, Olivier.
Summary: Although they love each other, Old Bear and his little Cub have a tug of war over which one knows best in a variety of situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUNDunrea, Olivier.
Summary: Ollie is an egg that does not want to hatch until Gossie and Gertie sit on him and use reverse psychology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003