Summary: Maggie Cole is the self-appointed oracle of Thurlbury, a close-knit town. When a radio journalist interviews Maggie, she gives him far more detail and embellishment about the locals and their personal lives than he was counting on. When the interview is played in full, all the guarded secrets, indiscretions and gossip are broadcast for the whole county to hear, changing life in Thurlbury forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TROUSummary: While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AFISummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYFranco
Summary: To find the evil Mr. Bones, the young dino tracker, Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, follow a trail of fossils to an ancient dinosaur graveyard. The dino fossils Mr. Bones thought were in Australia are actually in Antarctica! But make no bones about it-- this villain still intends to cover every continent with his reborn dinosaur followers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRAFranco
Summary: His father and everybody else at the museum in New York is excited over the dinosaur eggs that Mike Evans found in Montana--the trouble is they are hatching and Mike will need the help of his mysterious and time-traveling friend Shannon to capture them before they wreck the museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: Michael Evans is in Montana on a dinosaur dig with his paleontologist father, but he certainly never expected to find a live Tyrannosaurus Rex plucked out of its own time and looking for dinner, nor encounter a girl with some very advanced technology trying to trap the beast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: Mike Evans goes through the time portal to find his friend Shannon and her troublesome brother Jeff, but he soon finds they all have bigger problems--a robot who wants to repopulate the Earth with dinosaurs and a group of Tyrannosaurus rex babies who remember Mike from New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: Having been defeated in Australia and Antarctica, the evil Mr. Bones hides out somewhere he's sure he won't be found: the Moon! But the joke's on him. The young dino tracker Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, take to space to face off against their enemy in a lunar showdown of dino-sized proportions! But when they finally track him down, they realize Mr. Bones isn't at all what he seems...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRAFranco
Summary: What seems to Mike Evans like a boring dinosaur dig in China turns suddenly dangerous when he finds evidence of a live dinosaur in the neighborhood--and he and his friend Shannon run into a villain in a skull mask called Mr. Bones who is controlling botha feathered dino, and a fierce carnivore.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRAFranco
Summary: Michael Evans and his paleontologist father have been invited by the mysterious time-traveling Shannon to visit the complex built around an underwater portal to the Jurassic period, but Mike uncovers a plot to steal one of the dinosaurs--and then Shannon and her trouble-making brother Jeff disappear through the portal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRASummary: Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSSington, Philip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINBrando, Marlon
Summary: An ex-fighter gets caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONMarais, Bianca
Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGomez, Blanca
Summary: A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH GOMSummary: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEABarasch, Lynne.
Summary: Afraid of losing her best friend, a little girl does everything she can to stop her big sister's wedding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBansch, Helga
Summary: "The animals are all asleep in their respective homes, until things get turned upside down"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANBranon, Bill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BRADougherty, Brandi
Summary: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Inspired by Pixar Animation Studios latest film, The Good Dinosaur, this jacketed picture book features everyone's favorite new prehistoric characters and is complemented by stunning original artwork.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC DOUMarais, Bianca
Summary: Five octogenarian witches gather as an angry mob threatens to demolish Moonshyne Manor. All eyes turn to the witch in charge, Queenie, who confesses they've fallen far behind on their mortgage payments. Still, there's hope, since the imminent return of Ruby--one of the sisterhood who's been gone for thirty-three years--will surely be their salvation. But the mob is only the start of their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MaraisBarasch, Lynne.
Summary: Afraid of losing her best friend, a little girl does everything she can to stop her big sister's wedding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Barasch 2001Breach, Jen
Summary: Clementine Hetherington and her robot brother, Digory, have run away from the orphanage they've been living in since their parents died. Clem and Dig want to follow in their famous archaeologist mother's footsteps, but no one will take them seriously
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRESkyhorse, Brando.
Summary: A novel that explores the lives of those who shed their ethnic identity in pursuit of the American dream highlights a different character in each chapter, including Hector, a middle-aged day laborer who witnesses a murder, and his ex-wife Felicia, who survives a drive-by shooting.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010