Huerta, Lizz
Summary: "Indir is a Dreamer, descended from a long line of seers; able to see beyond reality, she carries the rare gift of Dreaming truth. But when the beloved king dies, his son has no respect for this time-honored tradition. King Alcan wants an opportunity to bring the Dreamers to a permanent end--an opportunity Indir will give him if he discovers the two secrets she is struggling to keep. As violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUESummary: "When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CocoonSummary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INDSummary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: Daniel Milton's once comfortable world as a talented surgeon is pushed to even greater extremes as he risks everything to stay ahead of his lies in the much-anticipated second season. Daniel's wife Beth has woken from her coma and their daughter Eve is reeling with the discovery that her mother has been alive all this time. Lee, the co-founder of the underground clinic, gets swept up in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TEMTate, Dizz
Summary: A group of teenage girls discover a dark secret about their fame-hungry Florida town that will haunt them for the rest of their lives when their friend, the local preacher's daughter, Sammy, goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TATSummary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Summary: "An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism. Romania--the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group.One day Adina returns home to discover that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULMuller, Herta.
Summary: From the winner of the IMPAC Award comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULBoyd, Lizi
Summary: In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYBoyd, Lizi
Summary: A celebration of the joy of reading books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOARD BOYBoyd, Lizi
Summary: In this story without words, a boy explores the woods after dark with a flashlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYMuller, Herta
Summary: A collection of stories on life in Romania under Communism, illustrating the violence and the corruption. They are based on the writer's experience in her youth, in a village in the German-speaking part of the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.914 MULMüller, Herta.
Summary: January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULDent, Lizzy
Summary: Everyone imagines running away from their life at some point. But Birdy has actually done it-- and the life she has run to belongs to her best friend Heather. The only problem: she hasn't told Heather. But the summer job at the highland Scottish hotel that her world class wine-expert friend ditched turns out to be a lot more than Birdy bargained for. Can she survive a summer pretending to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENRockwell, Lizzy
Summary: Jennifer and her friends at the community center are making a quilt. They begin with lots of colorful fabrics and an idea. Then they measure, cut, stitch, layer, and quilt. It's the work of many hands, many hours, and many stories. And the result is something warm and wonderful they can all share. Lizzy Rockwell tells the heartwarming story of a diverse group of people coming together to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROCGuerra, Wendy
Summary: "A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUESummary: Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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3 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HISBarber, Lizzy
Summary: "Raised in a quiet rural community, Anna has always been taught that her mamma's rules are the only path to follow. But, on her 18th birthday, she defies her mamma for the first time in her life and goes to Astroland. She's never been allowed to visit Florida's biggest theme park, so why, when she arrives, does everything about it seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMason, Lizzy
Summary: After deciding to leave home to attend New York University and be near the boy she likes, eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman learns that her long-absent father is schizophrenic and she may be, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MASSummary: When a harsh winter threatens the majestic Scottish Highlands, Rob Roy MacGregor is forced to borrow money from the less-than-noble Marquis of Montrose to provide for his clan. When Montrose's evil henchmen conspire to take the wealth for themselves, they thrust Rob into the most challenging battle of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROBHuett, Caleb
Summary: Ollie has always been happy just being an elf and inventing new games for Christmas with his best friend Celia--but then the current Santa (descendent of the original) decides to retire and announces that there will be an open competition for the position of next Santa (his son Klaus is not pleased) and suddenly Ollie and the other elves are vying with the Santa children for the Big Red Suit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FIC HUEBarber, Lizzy
Summary: "There are summers that will change your life. There are summers that may end it. In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici--a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can't believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she's drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BarberDent, Lizzy
Summary: Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend's Audi--the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that's what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel. Two years later, she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023