Summary: A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features, Universal Studios 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACESummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACFranky, Lily
Summary: A Japanese family that makes ends meet by shoplifting takes in a little girl they found alone on the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHOLessac, Frané.
Summary: A young boy goes with his best friend to visit the little Caribbean island where he was born.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1984
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LESFranco
Summary: His father and everybody else at the museum in New York is excited over the dinosaur eggs that Mike Evans found in Montana--the trouble is they are hatching and Mike will need the help of his mysterious and time-traveling friend Shannon to capture them before they wreck the museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: Michael Evans is in Montana on a dinosaur dig with his paleontologist father, but he certainly never expected to find a live Tyrannosaurus Rex plucked out of its own time and looking for dinner, nor encounter a girl with some very advanced technology trying to trap the beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: To find the evil Mr. Bones, the young dino tracker, Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, follow a trail of fossils to an ancient dinosaur graveyard. The dino fossils Mr. Bones thought were in Australia are actually in Antarctica! But make no bones about it-- this villain still intends to cover every continent with his reborn dinosaur followers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRASummary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAFranco
Summary: Mike Evans goes through the time portal to find his friend Shannon and her troublesome brother Jeff, but he soon finds they all have bigger problems--a robot who wants to repopulate the Earth with dinosaurs and a group of Tyrannosaurus rex babies who remember Mike from New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAGirard, Franck
Summary: "Toby may be the class clown, but he's smart enough to know what's what. Whether he's late for school, early for recess, or just in time to fail the next quiz, he's always got something to say about it. But even though his friends think he's funny, the adults in his life aren't laughing--mostly because they're not in on the jokes. No matter! Toby makes the best of it as he coasts through the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GIRFranco
Summary: What seems to Mike Evans like a boring dinosaur dig in China turns suddenly dangerous when he finds evidence of a live dinosaur in the neighborhood--and he and his friend Shannon run into a villain in a skull mask called Mr. Bones who is controlling botha feathered dino, and a fierce carnivore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRAFranco
Summary: Michael Evans and his paleontologist father have been invited by the mysterious time-traveling Shannon to visit the complex built around an underwater portal to the Jurassic period, but Mike uncovers a plot to steal one of the dinosaurs--and then Shannon and her trouble-making brother Jeff disappear through the portal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: Having been defeated in Australia and Antarctica, the evil Mr. Bones hides out somewhere he's sure he won't be found: the Moon! But the joke's on him. The young dino tracker Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, take to space to face off against their enemy in a lunar showdown of dino-sized proportions! But when they finally track him down, they realize Mr. Bones isn't at all what he seems...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRALesser, Carolyn.
Summary: A great polar bear sleeps, hunts, wanders, and mates as the seasons pass.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LESSummary: 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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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASNesser, Håkan
Summary: Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESFranck, Julia.
Summary: A multi-generational family story set in the Germany of the early twentieth century that reveals the devastating effect of war on the human heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAThilliez, Franck.
Summary: Beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle investigates an obscure film that causes anyone who watches it to end up dead, and, along with analyst Inspector Sharko, finds herself deep in a worldwide conspiracy of art and darkness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THIVischer, Frans.
Summary: When Fuddles the cat escapes from his house and goes to explore the great outdoors, his adventure is more taxing than he expected it to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011