Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILSummary: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 1917Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 1917Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NiBroder, Robert
Summary: A father teaches his daughter about woodworking and she contributes imagination and fun as they build a shed together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROMcDougall, Kirsten
Summary: "Alice: 30-something, IQ of 159 (almost a genius), only communicates with her mother in Morse code. Her imaginary friend is back. Erika: 15, daughter of hot 'wealthugee' who loves Russian literature, genuine genius, killer eyeliner and killer instincts. The climate is in crisis and wealthy immigrants are flocking to New Zealand for shelter, stealing land, driving up food prices, and taking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDKistler, Bonnie MacDougal
Summary: Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some precious moments of alone time and leave Pete’s son Kip, a high school senior, in charge of Leigh’s fourteen-year-old daughter Chrissy at their home. Driving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISRoper, Jane
Summary: "In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale. Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROPRoker, Al
Summary: "After waking up the neighborhood with The Morning Show Murders, and keeping readers up late solving The Midnight Show Murders, Al Roker returns with his most tantalizing mystery to date. Celebrity chef turned sleuth Billy Blessing finds his plate full of danger once again, as secrets from his long-buried past threaten to make a comeback. Before Billy had his five-star restaurant in New York,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROKRoker, Al.
Summary: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Al Roker and Dick Lochte's The Talk Show Murders. Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water when a brutal killing cancels a TV show--and its host--during its debut. Billy has reluctantly agreed to fly westward and play second banana on a new late-night talk show hosted by comic Desmond O'Day in Los Angeles, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Roker, Al.
Summary: After waking up the neighborhood with The Morning Show Murders, and keeping readers up late solving The Midnight Show Murders, Al Roker returns with his most tantalizing mystery to date. Celebrity chef turned sleuth Billy Blessing finds his plate full of danger once again, as secrets from his long-buried past threaten to make a comeback. Before Billy had his five-star restaurant in New...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Roker, Al
Summary: Sequel to the author's mystery debut, "The Morning show murders." Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water, when a brutal killing cancels a TV show -- and its host -- during its debut. -- Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROKRoker, Al.
Summary: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Al Roker and Dick Lochte's The Midnight Show Murders . As famous for his popular cooking segment on Wake Up America! as for his swank Manhattan bistro, Billy Blessing can add prime murder suspect to his impressive list of accomplishments. Because when one of the network's top honchos ends up dead, it's a poisoned serving of Blessing's coq au vin ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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McDougall, Len.
Summary: "A survival expert's skills are put to the test when he is confronted by a team of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists hell-bent on destruction"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McDougallRoper, Gayle G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROPRoper, Richard
Summary: Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home, to help wash the day's cares away. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Andrew didn't mean for the misunderstanding to happen, yet he's become trapped in his own white lie. The fantasy of his wife and two kids has become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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Summary: Celebrity chef Billy Blessing struggles to clear his name by solving the murder of his producer, who has been poisoned while eating a dish from Billy's four-star restaurant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ROKRoker, Al
Summary: Celebrity chef Billy Blessing struggles to clear his name by solving the murder of his producer, who has been poisoned while eating a dish from Billy's four-star restaurant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROKRoker, Al
Summary: Billy Blessing is reinventing himself as a chef down in North Fork, Long Island. That is, until a young woman walks into the restaurant he works at talking about murder, asking if Billy could look into it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXKruger, Diane
Summary: Follows the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her servants in July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FARGower, Catherine.
Summary: Long-Long and his grandfather go to town as everyone is getting ready for the Chinese New Year to sell their cabbages and earn money to celebrate the holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GOWRagen, Naomi
Summary: A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGBoiger, Alexandra
Summary: "Max and Marla are best friends. And aspiring Olympians! With their eyes on the prize, they know exactly what it'll take to reach sledding success: preparation, practice and perseverance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOIBroder, Melissa
Summary: "Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROEager, Edward.
Summary: When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999