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Summary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Girl 2004

Summary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Licorice 2022

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Summary: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Urquhart, Alaina

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Summary: From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URQ

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M URQ

Summary: In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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Mang, Veronica

Summary: "It's a dark and stormy night when three sleuthing little girls get pulled into a web of mystery. They have mistakenly uncovered a secret society of some of the most famous female spies in history. A glamorous spy named Josephine Baker enlists the girls to find out who has kidnapped Chiquita, her precious pet cheetah. Do the girls have what it takes to become spies themselves?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAN

Many, Paul.

Summary: Pete and his Dad do everything together in the morning except comb their hair, but when Dad shaves off the last few stragglers it takes Pete some time to adjust to his father's new look.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAN

Zann, Tara

Summary: "A shy girl teaches a wild boy everything about modern living so he can impress Gam Gam at a family dinner"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ZAN

Amann, Skylaar

Summary: Sophia loves finding fossils and digging up dinosaur bones. But she doesn't love the way all the grownups just want her to smile. What does smiling have to do with the very serious business of being a scientist?!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AMA

Summary: "In the taut thriller Alice, a woman, is pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon. While on vacation with two close girlfriends, Alice rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective. Slowly, she starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. But Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering and, once unleashed, it...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALI

Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WEL

Mann, Don

Summary: Navy SEAL Thomas Crocker and his highly trained team must break through a web of terrorist cells to find a ruthless sheikh who is at the helm of an international kidnapping ring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Summary: Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VER

Many, Paul.

Summary: When a magician accidentally uses the wrong book to make pancakes, his children are led on a merry chase through town trying to catch their wiggly, sneaky breakfast.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2002

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAN

Meyers, Maan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

Vann, David

Summary: In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis étranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Vann, David.

Summary: The prize-winning author of Legend of a Suicide delivers his highly anticipated debut novel. On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011

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Summary: The wedding bells are ringing, but will Castle and Beckett really tie the knot? On the biggest day of his life, Castle is nowhere to be found, and it's not because he has cold feet. Now, in a season of brilliant twists and turns, Castle and Beckett take on New York City's most fascinating cases while they try to solve the mystery of their own relationship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CAS

Vann, David.

Summary: The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund—old money that his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012

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Martel, Yann.

Summary: In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Ahmad, Aamina

Summary: "Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AHM

Wilson, Lakita

Summary: "Leila is crushed when Dev, her boyfriend of four years, breaks up with her right before graduation. Just when she's thinking she wasted her entire high school experience on a dead-end relationship, her best friend Bree reminds her that Last Chance Dance is just around the corner. A high school tradition, the Last Chance Dance gives all the students one last opportunity to find love before they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIL

Martel, Yann.

Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listeners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAR

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