Summary: An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit in this sumptuous adaptation of Honore de Balzac's epic novel, Lost Illusions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRLaCorte, Ellen
Summary: Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn't want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn't really have "the gift" and hasn't for a long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACSummary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUSVincenta, Jacquelyn
Summary: Local romance author Lydia Carroll only knows one version of the MSW story: her husband's. English professor Frank Carroll has been fixated on the mystery of her disappearance for years, crafting a narrative based on Mary's poetry and journals that insist that Mary lived past that night in 1939. As Frank's behavior grows more erratic, Lydia sees that his interest in Mary has evolved into an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINVincenta, Jacquelyn.
Summary: On a stormy night in 1939, Mary Stone Walker disappears from her home in White Hill, Michigan. Everyone knew the talented poet was desperate to escape her demons, but when Mary goes missing without a trace, one question lingers in the small town: Did Mary successfully break free of her troubled past and flee, or did her life end that night? Sixty years later, Lydia Carroll's husband is still...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VINBellini, Vincenzo
Summary: During the English Civil War of the 1640's, a Puritan bride goes mad when she feels betrayed by her Royalist bridegroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PURLaMotte, Lily
Summary: "It's almost Lunar New Year, and Chloe can't wait to celebrate! But first, Chloe and her family must prepare for the new year. They buy new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate the red envelope, and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together to cook a fantastic feast, saving a plate for A-má, of course. Chloe enjoys the festive celebration and yummy food, but most of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LAMBellini, Vincenzo
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Opera 2010
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SONVincenzi, Penny.
Summary: When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINVincenzi, Penny.
Summary: A tale set against a backdrop of the glossy magazine and advertising worlds of 1960s London follows a harrowing courtroom custody battle between Eliza, who gave up her writing job to marry, and her ex-husband, Matt, an edgy working-class man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINLaMotte, Lily
Summary: Would you rather blend in or stand out? Claire and Michelle used to be best friends, but now the two sisters couldn't be more different. Michelle will do anything to fit in, even if it means denying her Taiwanese culture, whereas Claire is proud of who she is. So much so that she decides to become a junior counselor at a Taiwanese American summer camp. Sensing a rift between the two, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAMAcosta, Alicia
Summary: Ben liked painting his nails, until some of the kids at school started teasing him. When Dad realized why Ben was sad, he decided to paint his nails too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: nubeOCHO 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACOVincenzi, Penny.
Summary: "Legendary Athina Farrell hires Bianca Bailey to revitalize a once-great skincare company with unexpected consequences. A devastating tale of ambition and ego, passion and wonder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINVincenzi, Penny.
Summary: Meeting by chance in 1985, three young women spend time together in Thailand before going their separate ways and are reunited many years later, unaware that the daughter abandoned at birth by one of them is now searching for her birth mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINAcosta, Carlos
Summary: "Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales--some taller than others--of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love, and identity that span three generations. One day, Oscar wakes to find that he is alone in the world. As the sole descendent of his family line, he is not sure what to do or where to go, but he holds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACOLacome, Julie.
Summary: A cat seeks a quiet place for her family of kittens away from the noisy sounds of the other animals on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Toddler Lancome 1988Vincent, Gabrielle.
Summary: When Celestine momentarily loses Ernest at the museum, she fears that he prefers the paintings to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC VINVincent, Norah.
Summary: Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. He begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINVincent, Rachel
Summary: Michaela is a junior in high school, close with her single mom. Her dad lives a few towns away and pops in and out of her life only on holidays and birthdays. They barely know each other beyond surface obligations. That is, until her mom dies. Suddenly on her own, Michaela has to move in with her Dad . . . and learns he's been married with kids all this time, and she was the product of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Vincent, Rachel
Summary: "When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom brutally stripped away as they are sold into The Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife." Specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts and living party favors, the Spectacle's owner, Willem Vandekamp, caters to the forbidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINVincent, Rachel.
Summary: I died on a Thursday--killed by a monster intent on stealing my soul. The good news? He didn't get it. The bad news? Turns out not even death will get you out of high school... Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected. After weeks spent "recovering," she's back in school, fighting to stay visible to the human world, struggling to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012
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Vincent, Rachel.
Summary: Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them. Until something does. Demon breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The Netherworld kind. The kind that really can kill you. Somehow the super-addictive substance has made its way to the human world. But how? Kaylee and Nash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2010
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Zandri, Vincent
Summary: "Sometimes fences make for nice neighbors. Other times they hide the evil within. Orchard Grove is a town like any other, with quiet neighborhoods and apple groves... though Ethan, the depressed screenplay writer, and his secretive wife, Susan, would tell you differently. So would the seductive serial killer living right next door...."--Dust jacket, p. [2]
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2016