Summary: In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes, and the ice has been melting every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to their daughter Aga, who left the icy tundra long ago due to a family feud. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGAIvanova, Katina
Summary: A tiny fairy lives with her friends in and around a huge lake with thousands of pink lotus flowers. She meets a boy with a magical bamboo flute and they set out on a quest to rescue a baby dragon. Later, they learn about flowers from bees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erik Istrup Publishing 2022
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Summary: "St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENIvanov, O. (Olga)
Summary: This tail-wagger of a picture book shows different kinds of dogs doing what dogs love to do best - go for a ride! Buckle up and get ready to ride through adorable illustrations and rhymes: You'll meet all different kinds of dogs who love to go for rides in all kinds of different vehicles. There's the K9 dog who sniffs out crime and there's the sports car pup who likes to ride curvy, swerve-y,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE IVASummary: Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEIEngle, Margarita.
Summary: When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENGHerman, R. A. (Ronnie Ann)
Summary: Jack and Jill's mom send them and their puppy Jasper to fetch a pail of water for they need to take a bath. But they tumble down the hill. No water, no bath today! Hurray!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HERFarley, Robin.
Summary: "Mia's big sister, Ava, is the star of a real ballet----and Mia's dance class is going to visit her!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FARFarley, Robin
Summary: Looking forward to learning new steps and donning a fancy new outfit on her first day of jazz class, Mia is disappointed by her drab jazz shoes and devises a creative way to match her ensemble to her jazzy dance routine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FARSharmat, Andrew
Summary: A friendly competition to grow the best organic garden is underway. The prize is tempting--a ribbon, a photo and article in the newspaper, and some all-you-can eat favorites from Ned's Diner! Esmeralda, Annie, Oliver, and Rosamond are among the competitors. Just a few days before contest judging, some of Rosamond's tomatoes go missing, and Nate and Sludge are called to investigate. Who is eager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: Mia the kitten is so excited about her first day of ballet class that she accidentally brings her big sister's tutu instead of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FARFrantz, Jennifer.
Summary: Wilbur is scared about moving to the Zuckerman farm, but makes a friend after he arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: When Nancy, the girl who loves to use fancy words, learns about Earth Day and "being green," her enthusiasm causes problems at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOSharmat, Andrew
Summary: "The Earth Day Fair is days away, but Nate's classroom project--a robot named Mr. Butler--has disappeared. Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, take on the unusual case, and they are soon searching high and low in and around the school. Will Nate find the robot in time for the fair?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SHASummary: Peer over the edge of the Spider-Verse, at five different realities ... and five daringly different spiders! Spider-Man Noir returns, as the Peter Parker of the 1930s finds himself up against Mysterio, and knee-deep in the biggest Spider-Man event of all! What is the secret of Dr. Aaron Aikman, the Spider-Man? Who are the villainous Red Eye and Naahmurah ... and can Aaron live through Morlun's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPISummary: 1987, Communist Romania. During the course of one day, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita get a late-term abortion. With abortion, let alone any kind of contraceptive, being illegal, the women have to use illegal means to achieve their goal. Shows the rough and gritty situation in which these college students, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOUSummary: Audrey and Morgan are two fairly ordinary 30-year-old women who live in Los Angeles. They are best friends, and they always stick together, so when Audrey discovers her ex-boyfriend is an international spy, Morgan joins her on an unlikely adventure. Together, the two of them must try to save him from assassins and help to save the world from a dangerous threat. As they travel around the globe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SpCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SPYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPYWells, Rosemary
Summary: While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Canine Country Day School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two crimes: one real, one fiction. Tadek is a detective who takes on a case involving the murder of a businessman. To his and everyone's surprise the case is identical to a character's murder in a recently published novel by a man named Kozlow. While the crime appears to be an open and shut case, Tadek discovers a darker secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DARMarinca, Anamaria
Summary: Set during the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates have twenty-four hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for an illegal abortion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUSummary: Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TONBucur, Dragos
Summary: Police detective Cristi struggles with his orders to arrest a teenager who is selling drugs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POLO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "In this illustrated book written by bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and James Patterson, a collection of artists each contribute a piece of art demonstrating why the word 'please' makes all the difference in the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ORDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORESummary: "The controversial sitcom that defined the late '70s and became an instant classic, Soap took viewers into the homes of not one but two of the most dysfunctional families ever-- and we couldn't help but embrace every eccentric one of them!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008