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Brothers and sisters Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Detectives Massachusetts Boston Drama Fog Drama Friendship Massachusetts Boston Drama Grocery trade United States Drama Human-alien encounters United States Drama Murder Investigation Massachusetts Boston Drama Special operations (Military science) United States Drama United StatesSummary: From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHAGwyn, Aaron
Summary: "1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWYSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: It is the height of the cold war, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER IPCLurie, Susan
Summary: A photographic tale about Duckling the reluctant swimmer finds him resenting the pressure exerted by his patient Mama and Papa Duck, preferring to stay dry and take a nap before eventually deciding to join his siblings in the pond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JESIsop, Laurie.
Summary: A child figures out the best way to hug a porcupine as he watches his friends hug other animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E ISOSummary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CASSummary: When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISShort, Sharon Gwyn.
Summary: Talented high-school senior Donna Lane yearns to leave her Midwestern home in pursuit of a career in design, but she feels obligated to stay and care for her helpless father and her younger brother, Will. In fragile health and obsessed with the television show Sergeant Striker and the Alaskan Wild, Wills dearest companion is a mute Siberian Husky named Trusty. The arrival of two outsiders...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOGay, Marie-Louise.
Summary: Stella introduces her little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Gay 2013Gay, Marie-Louise.
Summary: Sam is full of questions on his first trip to the seashore and his older sister has an answer for each one, except whether or not Sam will ever come into the water.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION GayCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYGay, Marie-Louise.
Summary: Ever-inquisitive, carrot-top Stella takes a peek at her early days when she couldn't read but, now that she's grown, she can read to her little brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYSummary: Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRAWhitehouse, Lucie
Summary: When her husband disappears during a business trip to the U.S., Hannah, who believes she has married the perfect man, begins to have doubts when his co-workers tell a different story, prompting her to dig into his life, which unexpectedly leads her to a place of violence and fear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIYoon, Susan
Summary: Spending the day preparing their favorite treat, hotteok, a brown sugar-filled Korean pancake, to celebrate their father's long-awaited arrival home the next day, sisters Haejin and Hanna wonder how they'll ever make something special in time when their batter is ruined.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOOGay, Marie-Louise
Summary: After leaving his war-torn country with his family, Mustafa visits a park near his new home and finds beautiful flowers, lady bugs, fall leaves, and finally, a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYGay, Marie-Louise
Summary: Sam has the help of his big sister, Stella, when he has trouble getting dressed in the morning, decides Fred the dog needs to learn some new tricks--including swimming, cooking, and painting--and cannot sleep because he misses Fred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYGay, Marie-Louise
Summary: Collects a series of humorous short stories that explore the things kids think about, from what trees talk about to lies their mother tells them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Gay, Marie-Louise.
Summary: Stella introduces Sam to the fun of playing in the snow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION GayCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYSummary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MysticSummary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after the brutal murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter and Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004