Summary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAINiederhoffer, Galt
Summary: "Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass' two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Seattle--a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIEGadot, Gal
Summary: An ordinary suburban couple becomes involved in an international espionage plot when they discover their impossibly beautiful and sophisticated new neighbors are covert operatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KEE RATED PG-13Galm, Ruth
Summary: "Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. B. is caught between generations. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGala, Marcial
Summary: "The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSeliktar, Galit
Summary: Weaves together semi-autobiographical stories that take place in rural Ganei-Yohanan between the mid-1970s and late 1980s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare/Ponent Mon 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SELWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A teenage girl, raised on the east end of Long Island among the country estates of the rich, reflects on her understanding of human nature during a seemingly idyllic summer spent with her eight-year-old cousin Daisy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Andy.
Summary: Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her fianc,̌ former SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, must stop King Arthur's legendary blade from falling into the wrong hands because the truth behind the sword's power could plunge the world in a new era of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDGragg, Walt
Summary: "WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm Rising and The Third World War. "Delta-Two, I've got tanks through the wire! They're everywhere!" World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Gal, Susan.
Summary: "As the seasons change, the industrious pigs of Day by Day build a home, plant a garden, help their neighbors, and then gather in a harvest grown with hard work and kindness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALMcDermott, Alice
Summary: "The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McDermott 2013McDermott, Alice.
Summary: A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice.
Summary: A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice.
Summary: Theresa is the town's most sought-after babysitter but she must cope with the challenges presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the mysterious compelling attention of an aging painter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCDGall, Chris
Summary: Introduces the part-dinosaur, part-truck monsters called Dinotrux, including Dozeratops, Digasaurus, Velocitractor, and Tyrannosaurus Trux.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GALGall, Chris
Summary: A young inventor accidentally creates a group of tiny robots that employ their unique abilities and teamwork to become incredibly useful--and maybe even change the world. Includes author's note on the science and uses of nano-robotics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GALGall, Chris.
Summary: Mr. Creacher, a multi-tentacled substitute teacher, warns his prankish students not to misbehave, recounting rhyming cautionary tales of the weird, spooky, and unexpected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GALCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALGall, Chris
Summary: A dog and a cat, both newly adopted and forced to share a room, do not get along until a howling, smelly, terrifying newcomer unites them in a common cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E GALGall, Chris
Summary: "When a toy train falls off a train table, he gets lost in the outside world, but after meeting many different trains who help him along the way, he is finally able to return home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALGall, Chris.
Summary: All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALSummary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005