Summary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHOSummary: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter, Olive, is growing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SYNArtist Not Provided
Summary: Follows the adventures of Clifford the giant dog, his owner Emily Elizabeth, and his canine friends as they learn about sharing and caring on Birdwell Island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: DVD JUV CLIMichell, Hannah
Summary: "At home in Seoul, former journalist Sae, is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work. He has never been this late before. Her children are crying, and Sae, exhausted and anxious, turns on the TV to distract herself. She clicks to the news, which shows a horrific disaster, the collapse of a massive skyscraper where Jae was an engineer. Minutes, then hours, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICWitchel, Alex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WITBaker, Mishell
Summary: Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess. Now, in a final visit to the scene of the crime, Millie and her former boss Caryl encounter Teo's tormented ghost. But there's one problem: according to Caryl, ghosts don't exist. Millie has a new life, a stressful job, and no time to get pulled back into the Project,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKBaker, Mishell
Summary: In the third book of the Nebula Award-nominated Arcadia Project series, which New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called "exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted," Millie Roper has to pull off two impossible heists--with the fate of the worlds in the balance. Three months ago, a rift between agents in London and Los Angeles tore the Arcadia Project apart. With both fey Courts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKRichell, Hannah
Summary: Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beautiful object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's Chilterns manor house....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richell 2018Baker, Mishell.
Summary: "A cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in the first book of a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKHummel, Maria
Summary: "Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so whydid she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMHummel, Maria.
Summary: To provide for his children after being drafted into military service, surgeon Frank Kappus, a recent widower, marries a young woman who struggles to keep one of the children from being declared mentally unfit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMHummel, Maria.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Michels, Tilde.
Summary: Peter discovers fish, bugs, birds, berries, clouds, and trees as he spends a summer day in the meadow near his house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1992
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hummel, Maria
Summary: "Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hummel, Maria
Summary: Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMMitchell, Adrian
Summary: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: D. Kindersley 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MITMitchell, Jane
Summary: Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MITSharmat, Mitchell.
Summary: A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Four Winds Press 1985
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAMitchell, David.
Summary: "A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MITMitchell, Gladys
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Joseph 1985
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITMitchell, Malcolm
Summary: Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge--until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MITMitchell, Saundra.
Summary: In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MITSmith, Mitchell
Summary: With the peace of the Middle Kingdom shattered by the deaths of the King and Queen and the murder of the crown Prince, Bajazet, the only surviving member of the royal family, becomes a pawn in a twisted game of political intrigue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004