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Summary: A "ghost therapist" is hired to exorcise the ghosts in an old house so the owner can search for its fabled treasure, but the ghosts have other ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CASLeopard, Bones
Summary: Aoe, Thel, and Gen, better known as The Lovely Trio, first burst onto the scene five years ago when they saved Earth from a surprise space monster attack. As a result, everyone idolizes them as super-heroic pop icon magical girls, including Gigi, whose brother died as a bystander in one of their battles. But when Gigi witnesses the Lovely Trio battling a monster firsthand, she sees something...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 LEOLeonardi, Marco
Summary: In turn of the century Mexico, a young woman loves a boy whom her mother forces to marry her sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Like 2011Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Contents: The general prologue -- The Miller's prologue and tale -- The Reeve's prologue and tale -- The Cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's prologue and tale -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue and tale -- The squire's prologue and tale -- The Franklin's prologue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHWPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: "A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PADPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUEDiCaprio, Leonardo
Summary: In the 1990s a wealthy stockbroker becomes involved in a securities scam that leads him to a life of crime and corruption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WolfCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WoCarranza, Leonarda
Summary: "In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARLeonardo, Cory
Summary: Alastair the African grey parrot is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky and his sister, Aggie, by twelve-year-old Fritz, spoiling his plans to fly away with Aggie. Told in Alastair, Albertina, and Fritz's voices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEOLeonardo, Cory
Summary: With the help from friends, Marcel the hedgehog tries to find his way back to The Emerald City Theater, the place he has called home since getting separated from his beloved owner, Dorothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEOChance, Maia
Summary: "After her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with her Swedish cook to the only place she could--her deceased husband's secret love nest in the middle of Manhattan. Her only comforts were chocolate cake, dime store detective novels, and the occasional highball (okay, maybe not so occasional). But rent came due and Lola and Berta...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACharney, Noah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CHAChaucer, Geoffrey
Summary: A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E CHAChance, Maia
Summary: Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibition-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery. After all, their client, Lord Sudley, promises them a handsome paycheck, and the gin and tonics will be free. But no sooner do they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChance, Maia
Summary: Hannah McCullough's life is far from perfect, but you'd never know it by looking at her. Instead, you'd see a beautiful young mother wholly devoted to her two children and a docile wife utterly besotted with her self-made millionaire husband, Allan. You'd see the designer clothes she wears, the luxury car she drives, the dewy-eyed au pair she employs. You wouldn't see the dark secret she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2024
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Summary: The eve of destruction. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChance, Megan
Summary: Grace discovers that she must fulfill an ancient prophecy and choose between two groups of Irish warriors, the Fomori and the Fianna.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHAChance, Megan
Summary: After finding an archdruid to teach her how to use her power, Grace Knox struggles to learn the spells, while Patrick and Diarmid fight their feelings for Grace and their duty to their warring brotherhoods.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHACohen, Barbara
Summary: A version in modern English of four of Chaucer's tales, beautifully illustrated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.1 COHChancy, Myriam J. A.
Summary: "From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families forever joined by country-and by long-held secrets-and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALeppard, Lois Gladys.
Summary: A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEPAckroyd, Peter
Summary: Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 ACKChancy, Myriam J. A.
Summary: "At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAGiffen, Keith
Summary: You've never seen the Mystery Inc. gang like this before, as Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo seek answers to the mystery plague that turned the world into a monster-strewn wasteland! But now something strange has happened to the marauding monsters--they're suddenly all single-mindedly heading in one direction, almost like they're under a spell! If someone has figured out a way to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018