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Animals Fiction Authors Fiction Civil rights Alabama Selma Drama False personation Fiction Friendship Fiction Glasgow (Scotland) Social conditions Fiction Mumbai (India) Fiction Secret service United States Drama Selma (Ala.) Race relations Drama Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) DramaSummary: The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage, about an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PHAMandine, Selma
Summary: Teddy Bear learns that although there are many different kinds of kisses, the best ones come from the people you love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SELSummary: Special agent James West and fellow agent and crackerjack inventor Artemus Gordon team up on a daring assignment to stop legless Dr. Arliss Loveless and his diabolical plot for a Disunited States of America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WILEl-Wardany, Salma
Summary: "It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EL-WCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EL-WCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELWPatel, Reema
Summary: "A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival"-- Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led to the loss of her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn't belong, Rakhi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPella, Judith.
Summary: While the Civil War is raging, Brenton Baldwin has promised to provide a safe escort to California for Caitlan O'Connor. But now that his heart is totally hers, how can he leave her once they finally arrive? Meanwhile, Kiernan and Victoria O'Connor struggle as his work on the Central Pacific Railroad keeps them separated for long periods of time. Then a devastating accident with explosives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Wolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13Alikhan, Salima
Summary: When a massive fire breaks out in 1871 Chicago, twelve-year-old orphan Ollie and his young charge Leo scramble to escape the burning city, but before they find shelter they must search for Ollie's lost sister Eliza among the wreckage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALIPella, Judith.
Summary: When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Their stepdaughter becomes enthralled with an Irish railroad worker and James must stop a destructive plan among the workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELScelsa, Kate
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft-or think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces. After losing her best friend and first love, Chloe, Eleanor has spent the past year in a haze, vowing to stay away from anything resembling romance. But when a handwritten guide to tarot arrives in the mail at the witchy souvenir store where Eleanor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCEShinya, Shima
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Hyperspace Disaster, young Jedi Knight, Lily Tora-Asi is assigned to help displaced civilians relocate to Banchii, a newly inhabited planet in the Inugg system far in the outer rim. Banchii is the site of a new Jedi temple led by Master Arkoff, Lily's Wookiee mentor, who imagines the temple as a place of peace for new inhabitants and for those who are traveling beyond....
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STASimukka, Salla
Summary: From a world where winter never seems to end, eleven-year-old Alice falls into a land of summer, meets her soul-sister Marissa, and works with her to overcome powerful Queen Lili.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIMKelman, Stephen
Summary: John Lock has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England--decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss, and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife--and has come to India to meet his destiny. A destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. John has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kelman 2016Saterstrom, Selah
Summary: On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and it is really Barbara Walters she's narrating this tale to? We're too dazzled to know more than that this is about how a girl ends up in the backwash of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATForrest, Bella
Summary: "We walk in dreams," the Head had said. "It was only a matter of time before a nightmare followed us back." "Kingstone Keep. Falleaf House. Stillwater House. Spellshadow Manor. Seek these places, and do not leave them. Cower within their walls..." Alex doesn't have all the answers yet, but he and his friends are running out of time. With Aamir's new position as a professor, they hoped he might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightlight Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Forrest 2017Rushdie, Salman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSHeine, Helme.
Summary: To settle a quarrel between three hens, the king must choose which one lays the most beautiful egg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1987
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Summary: The romance of Mariana Remizov, a Russian nurse, and Daniel Trent, an American war correspondent, during the 1905 Russo-Japanese War. By the author of Heirs to the Motherland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: Alice Brill struggles to come to terms with the hidden truths of her life--her unrealized aspirations as a writer, her lackadaisical marriage, her troubled younger son, and her father, who is slipping into senility in a nursing home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOLKelman, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKelman, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKelman, Judith.
Summary: Author Claire Barrow's life begins a downward spiral after her cop husband commits suicide, she becomes the victim of identity theft, and a killer her husband helped put behind bars is freed on a technicality and embarks on a course of revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003