Summary: Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. Desperate to fulfil her hopes, Melanie intends to do everything the right way. Politely she introduces herself to her neighbours with homemade schnapps. At her first day of school she gives a very ambitious speech for her colleagues. She wants to be a 'fresh breeze'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Mouvement 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORSummary: Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TONSummary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPESummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHELaskowski, Tara
Summary: When house sitter Allison Simpson becomes drawn into the story of a girl who disappeared from town thirty years before, she begins to realize that Opal Beach isn't as idyllic as it seems. The walls of the gorgeous homes hide dark secrets. And as Allison digs deeper into the mystery, she uncovers not only the shocking truth, but finds herself caught in the middle of a twisted plot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LASLaskowski, Tara
Summary: Gathering at their lush winery estate for a joint birthday celebration, the Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, find old tensions ignited as they are pushed to the edge during this tradition that turns into a weekend to die for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LASLandsman, Keren
Summary: Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolised and now exploited for their powers. In Israel, the Sons of Simeon, a group of religious extremists, persecute sorcerers while the government turns a blind eye. After a march for equal rights ends in brutal murder, empath, moodifier and reluctant waiter Reed becomes the next target. While his sorcerous and normie friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANKagen, Lesley
Summary: "The summer of 1960 was the hottest ever for Summit, Wisconsin. For kids seeking relief from the heat, there was a creek to be swum in, sprinklers to run through, and ice cream at Whitcomb's Drugstore. But for Frankie, Viv, and Biz, eleven-year-old best friends, it would forever be remembered as the summer that evil paid a visit to their small town - and took their young lives as they'd known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAGCallender, Kacen
Summary: "In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: During a sweltering 1960 Milwaukee heat wave, Sally O'Malley struggles with the trauma of her father's sudden death and her sister Troo's possible role in a string of burglaries, an escape from a reform school, and an orphan's disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAGMahajan, Karan
Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHWang, Daren
Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANČapek, Karel
Summary: Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catbird Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPCallender, Kacen
Summary: Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accounts--anything to build their platform. When former best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread on Lark's Twitter declaring his love for a secret, unrequited crush, Lark's tweets are suddenly the talk of the school--and beyond. To protect Kasim, Lark decides to take the fall, pretending they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALSapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: "The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPZailckas, Koren
Summary: Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--and she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAISapkowski, Andrzej.
Summary: Into a tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witches of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a strange destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world: for good, or for evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2009
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Summary: For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime. Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic, so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested, but instead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALParsons, Karyn
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAREggert, Maren
Summary: In order to fund her own research, a scientist participates in an experiment in which she lives with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect life partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distribution Solutions 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN I'MMaren, Mesha
Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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Summary: When the summer visitors leave in the fall, a new group of visitors moves into the vacation cottage to spend the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAYSapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: "Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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Summary: The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016