Birkjær, Betina
Summary: "There's a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster but a quiet one. It's probably making a kid trap. Each night, it grows in the dark. Everyone knows monsters feed on darkness. This is Monster-Scared. With humor and charm, award-winning author Betina Birkjær and illustrator Zarah Juul show us how the things we can't see grow bigger and scarier, how the slightest sound or shadow can send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BIRBertin, Joanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERKline, Kevin
Summary: Middle-aged French chambermaid Hélène suddenly finds she has a talent for chess and, much to her family's consternation, seeks out a reclusive American expat to teach her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF QUESummary: Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINKowalski, William
Summary: "A story of two people who, in looking for a place to call home, find themselves instead."--Book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOWGappah, Petina
Summary: Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa is the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers, and maps, 1,500 miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. "This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPGappah, Petina
Summary: Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPCole, Marjorie Kowalski.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLBertino, Marie-Helene
Summary: "A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCole, Marjorie Kowalski.
Summary: Gus Traynor is the editor of a small weekly newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska. His idealism has been consistently tested but remains mostly intact, and he prides himself on his independence of spirit. As he says, "I won't be kept inside any building I don't want to be in." So when big business threatens the awe-inspiring Alaskan wilderness that he holds dear, Gus calls for support from his best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLEtting, Jessica Koosed
Summary: Abby spends the summer after her senior year of high school--and a life-changing diagnosis--with her aunt on Catalina Island, reconnecting with family, forging a new path, and finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: "Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "As three lost souls search for love, music and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia, together they will discover life's endless possibilities over the course of one magical night"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERSummary: Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret performer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PHOSummary: A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUSSummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Thinking himself the only person alive after a plague that killed his wife and child, a scientist fights a nightly battle with what appear to be vampires, trying to break into his house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LASHerman, R. A. (Ronnie Ann)
Summary: One by one all the other pumpkins are chosen to become jack-o-lanterns, but even though no one buys the Littlest Pumpkin, her Halloween dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HerSummary: Ossei is a strong-willed young man who sets out to rescue his mother when their village is raided. His quest leads him to the stronghold of the dreaded King Adanggaman, an arrogant despot who thrives on the slave trade and uses fierce female warriors to enforce his power. One of these Amazons, herself a former slave, falls in love with Ossei, and they escape to the bush.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADASummary: People near and far are heading for Agrabah as the royal wedding of the century is about to take place. But before Aladdin and Jasmine can say "I do," the legendary Forty Thieves spoil everything in a desperate search for the powerful Hand of Midas -- the ultimate treasure that turns all it touches into gold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALASummary: Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2004
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Summary: "In the aftermath of the wedding of Batman and Catwoman, the Dark Knight's life has changed completely. Having walked down the aisle, how will this new Bruce Wayne view himself? What is to become of Batman now?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018