Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARCampbell, Lisbeth
Summary: When a country is held in thrall to a vicious, despotic king, it's up to one woman to take him down in this gorgeous literary fantasy debut from Lisbeth Campbell. Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself. But after finding the missing queen's diary, Anza--impassioned by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMSummary: "Germany 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Against the will of his immediate superior, young prosecutor Johann Radmann begins to examine the case of recently identified teacher who was a former Auschwitz guard. Radmann soon lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LABPosthuma, Lisabeth
Summary: "Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSSlegers, Liesbet
Summary: A child describes what he enjoys about all four seasons, from listening to birds sing in spring and collecting shells on the beach in summer to seeing colorful leaves in fall and building a snowman in winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2014
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2 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SLEKooser, Ted.
Summary: Built on a treeless yard by a family who cleared away all the sprouting trees on the property, a house is eventually abandoned and left to deteriorate on a lot that is gradually overrun by wild trees, in a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triumph.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOOKrisher, Trudy
Summary: Told in rhyming text, dogs have a wonderful day at the dog park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRILasser, Scott.
Summary: After losing his son and divorcing his wife, a Detroit native returns home after twenty-five years and becomes involved with the sister of his murdered high school girlfriend as he tries to put back the pieces of his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASReiser, Lynn.
Summary: When two dogs, Whistle and Spot, play at racing and jumping, sometimes one wins and sometimes the other one does, but until Spot learns to swim, Whistle always beats him across the pond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REIGaider, David.
Summary: For Dragon Age newcomers, this comprehensive volume brings you up to speed on everything you need to know about the regions, religions, monsters, magic, and more! For dedicated fans, never before have the secrets of BioWare's epic fantasy been revealed so completely and so compellingly!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2013
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Summary: This novel-from-life is an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAYYates, Maisey
Summary: "Welcome to Lone Rock, Oregon's Wild West. Chance Carson is the one man in Lone Rock who gets Juniper Sohappy all riled up. His family is ranching royalty. He's arrogant, insufferable and obnoxiously charming -- she'll keep her distance, thanks. But when Juniper finds him on her property, injured and without his memory, she saves his life . . . and sort of lets him believe he's her ranch hand....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC YATBailer, Darice.
Summary: Instead of doing what other dogs do, Charlie Brown's dog imagines himself chasing the German World War I pilot, the Red Baron.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BAIKisner, Adrienne.
Summary: Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren't much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But then, an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KISLasser, Scott.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASSlegers, Liesbet
Summary: A book filled with recognizable images of a brisk fall day and a winter's day in the snow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SLEMailer, Norman.
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMailer, Norman.
Summary: Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAILasser, Scott.
Summary: On September 10, 2001, Kyle tells his sister, Cat, that he believes he has fathered a son. The next day both Kyle and the boy's mother head off to work and are never heard from again. Cat--a single mother of a young son--sets out to find her brother's orphaned child. Nearly a year later, that search is ongoing when her father, Sam, asks Cat to come to California for the anniversary of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC LASPedersen, Kailee
Summary: "Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology. The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PEDReiser, Lynn.
Summary: Child and cat prepare for bedtime, and suddenly the cat disappears from sight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC REIBailer, Darice.
Summary: Lucy thinks Linus is too attached to his blanket and wants to see what will happen to him without it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BAIGaider, David.
Summary: "It's unusual for a king to embark on a dangerous quest himself rather than send emissaries, but King Alistair Theirin has caught wind of a rumor big enough, and personal enough, that he is compelled to investigate. With the deadly pirate Isabela and underworld merchant Varric Tethras by his side, Alistair travels to Antiva--the nation of assassins--to learn the fate of his long-lost father,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DRAKassner, Heather
Summary: Made from bone dust and imagination, Irreélle accidentally destroys another of Miss Vesper's creations and flees to the underside of the graveyard, seeking the magic that brings bones to life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019