Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANASummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Created by The Hangry Hermit, Really?!? is a light-hearted comic strip that welcomes you into the lives of an average Asian-Canadian family. With a speed-cubing big sister, a mischievous little sister and a Mom who has mastered 'the look of true exasperation,' Dad is a comic artist who shares their sweet daily moments in this book. From encounters with ancestral moths to overly mature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [the Hangry Hermit] 2020
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Summary: Charlie and Mouse and their parents are going on a camping trip, and there will be hiking, storytelling, marshmallows, and campfires, and the joy that comes from sharing it all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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Summary: A boy named Mouse is mixing up a magic potion: put a drop on your nose and make a wish--and in these four stories Mouse, his brother Charlie, and their father find out if the magic potion works and their wishes come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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Summary: In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now. David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBarry, Dave
Summary: In uproarious, brand-new pieces, Barry tackles everything from family trips, bar mitzvah parties and dating (he's serious about that title: "When my daughter can legally commence dating--February 24, 2040--I intend to monitor her closely, even if I am deceased") to funeral instructions ("I would like my eulogy to be given by William Shatner"), the differences between male and female...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 306.85 BARSummary: Another comical compilation of the longest-running scripted show in television history has arrived. Season seventeen contains all 22 outrageous episodes, a vast repertoire of Springfieldian special features, plus a mind-blowing list of celebrity guest voices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIMSummary: Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films/Shout Factory 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NeHess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 ... [this] is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HESHarvey, Jacqueline
Summary: After a school excursion goes horribly wrong, Kensy and Max are left with a sneaking suspicion that the incident was no accident. But there's no time for investigation as the twins are whisked away on a fully sanctioned Pharos mission. Upon landing in Zermatt, Kensy and Max are tasked with infiltrating the Van Leer family. Strange as the Van Leers are, proof of their misdeeds is scarce. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Harvey 2022Summary: The Postables discover an antique vase with a letter inside and decide to track down its origin; the Postables take a road trip to track down a boy who might have been kidnapped; the Postables discover a letter with clues about a young woman's missing mother while preparing for Norman and Rita's wedding; the Postables help a boy with leukemia to reunite with his lost friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMWolk, Lauren
Summary: Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's Christmas and Miranda leaves Seattle with a suitcase full of presents to join her long lost family in Carlton Heath, where she will experience the joyful traditions she missed as a child. But this Christmas, she fears the warm welcome she received from the Whitcomb family will soon turn cold when Miranda receives an anonymous text from someone who threatens to expose her identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD EnFox, Lauren
Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sigmund and the Sea Monsters was an American children's television series that ran from 1973 to 1975, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and aired on Saturday Mornings. The show centered on two brothers, Johnny and Scott Stuart, who discover Sigmund, a friendly young sea monster who has been thrown out by his comically dysfunctional undersea family for refusing to frighten people. The boys hide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SMK Pictures 2011
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Summary: A child describes all of the adventures she has with her two daddies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2021
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Summary: #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author returns with the fifth installment in the bestselling Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia as well as brothers Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma only to break apart before the Wizard’s Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates. Following the murderous events of the “gripping…thrill-ride” (Karin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARHarvey, Kristy Woodson
Summary: "Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives...and history as they know it. Present Day: Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells Julia that even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: When Hank's sister, Emily, is upset that she can't have a reptile show at her birthday party, Hank comes up with a plan of his own. He'll disguise himself as the Westside Wizard and pull a snake out of thin air. But learning the trick is harder than he thought. Can Hank pull it off without blowing his cover?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WINSummary: Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect, Dutton family patriarch John Dutton is determined to protect his ranch and his family's legacy by any means necessary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019