Summary: An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PEA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PEA
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PEACopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PEALimon, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMTwiss, Jill
Summary: "Pudding the snail and his friends can't seem to agree on anything. Whatever Jitterbug the chipmunk wants, Geezer the goose does not. Whatever Toast the butterfly wants, Duffles and Nudge the otters are absolutely against. And if somehow Toast and Duffles and Jitterbug and Nudge all agree on something, then Geezer is not having it. So when Toast suggests they need a leader, the friends try to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TWIHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "A novel about an aspiring screenplay writer--full of script ideas but unable to follow through on any of them--who becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Contents: Islands -- The life and work of Alphonse Kauders -- The Sorge spy ring -- The accordion -- Exchange of pleasant words -- A coin -- Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls -- Imitation of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: The murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggers ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: Jitterbug the chipmunk doesn't like change, so when someone new comes into the woods, Jitterbug needs the help of her friends to learn how to accept a new friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TWILymon, Bria
Summary: "Young children can join Malibu and Brooklyn as they care for horses and learn to ride in one story, and then flip the book over to follow the girls as they learn about all the adorable animals on a farm"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: You can be a teacher: Malibu and Brooklyn help teach children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Lemony Snicket investigates his own possible murder after receiving a note under his door stating that his breakfast was poisoned.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SNISnicket, Lemony
Summary: After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SNISnicket, Lemony.
Summary: Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SNISnicket, Lemony.
Summary: The elusive author provides a glimpse into his mysterious and sometimes confusing life, using fanciful letters, diary entries, and other miscellaneous documents as well as photographs and illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SNIStark-Nemon, Barbara
Summary: Abbie Rose Stone's acquired wisdom runs deep, and so do her scars. She has successfully navigated the shoals of a long marriage, infertility, challenging children, and a career. Now it's her turn to realize her dream: producing hard apple cider along the northern shores of Lake Michigan that she loves. She manages to resist new versions of the old pull of family dynamics that threaten to derail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press, a division of SparkPoint Sudio, LLC. 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P STADeaon, Natashia
Summary: "Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in bya caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEOLaymon, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAYAdelson, Leone
Summary: When he awakens from hibernation, Little Bear's hunger leads him to a house where a Purim celebration is just beginning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday AdelsonAmmon, Richard.
Summary: Some Amish children celebrate Christmas in their one-room school and in their own simple ways with their family and relatives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC AMMLafon, Lola
Summary: Fascinée par le destin de la petite gymnaste roumaine de quatorze ans apparue aux JO de Montréal en 1976 pour devenir immédiatement un mythe planétaire, la narratrice de ce roman imagine de l'expérience que vécut cette prodigieuse fillette, venue, par la pureté de ses gestes, incarner aux yeux du monde le rêve d'une enfance éternelle. Mais quelle version retenir du parcours de cette petite...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Actes Sud 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 LAF FRENCHLaymon, Richard.
Summary: Leigh is a beautiful girl, 18 years old, headstrong and rebellious. All she wants from her summer by the lake is a chance to relax and have some fun. And that handsome boy she just met certainly looks like fun. But her summer fling will lead to terror. That night in the old abandoned house will haunt her nightmares for the rest of her life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books In Motion 2006
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Lebow, Laura
Summary: "In 1788 Vienna, Court Poet Lorenzo Da Ponte is putting some finishing touches on the libretto for the premiere of his new opera with Mozart, Don Giovanni. A huge success when it debuted in Prague, the Emperor has decreed that it shall be performed in Vienna. But Joseph II is off prosecuting a less-than-popular war against the Turks, and the city itself is in a bit of turmoil. There are voices...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEBStein, Triss
Summary: Erica Donato is researching the 1930s when Brownsville, New York, was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. Two young women are found murdered. One of them, Savanna, had helped Erica at the local library. Erica digs deeper than necessary into her research and encounters an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015