Summary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCVSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: Class, cultural and sexual differences are explored in this drama about a thirty-year-old gay man returning to his homeland of Tunisia after the death of his father. His over-bearing mother wishes him to stay and get married, but he meets and falls in love with the handyman. Islamic mores, a class-conscious society and his ever-present mother theaten their burgeoning relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TLA Releasing 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STRBar-el, Dan
Summary: "An inquisitive polar bear named Duane befriends an array of animals as he discovers where he belongs in this charming classic-in-the making. In the Very, very far north, past the Cold, cold ocean and just below the hill that looks like a baby whale, you'll find Duane and his friends. Duane is a sweet and curious young bear who makes friends with everyone he meets-whether they're bossy, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: As Duane, a polar bear, explores his new home, he makes friends with the wide variety of creatures he encounters, despite their varied personalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: "An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Summary: "As a warrior in the elven army, Yeeran has known nothing but violence her whole life. Her sister, Lettle, is trying to make a living as a diviner, seeking prophecies of a better future. When a fatal mistake leads to Yeeran's exile from the Elven Lands, both sisters are forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their borders. There they encounter the impossible: the fae court. The fae...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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Summary: "It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELWEl Akkad, Omar
Summary: "More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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Summary: "Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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Summary: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Learn how Tony Stark became the super hero known as Iron Man."--The publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACMacri, Thomas.
Summary: NICK FURY AND S.H.I.E.L.D. are faced with a foe no single person can defeat. So Fury sets out to bring together Earth's Mightiest Heroes and form the Avengers! Join Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye as they battle the Asgardian trickster known as Loki, who plans to unleash a dangerous and powerful force upon the Earth. If Loki succeeds, the world as we know it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2012
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Macri, Thomas.
Summary: After Spider-Man receives a new, powerful costume, the hero begins to wonder where its power comes from and whether it is good or evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MACRoe, Mechal Renee
Summary: "An illustrated, joyful celebration of African-American boys' hairstyles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ROESummary: 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 CLIMacri, Thomas
Summary: Tells the story of how James Howe learned of his superhuman abilities and became the superhero Wolverine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight/Marvel 2015
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Summary: Describes the powers and abilities of the members of the Avengers, including Ant-Man, Hulk, and Thor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight/Marvel 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACMacri, Thomas
Summary: Conflict arises when the merciless Kree and the Skrulls go to war, placing the Earth in danger as it waits for help from Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Conflict arises when the merciless Kree and the Skrulls go to war, placing the Earth in danger as it waits for help from Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: She wants to turn up the heat. He's got the skills to whip her into a frenzy. The Boot Knockers Ranch, Book 5. TV food show host Tabbart Tracy works hard to give viewers her best recipes. But while her fans are legion, her personal life is colder than a meat locker. Most men just want her to serve up some pie-in the nude. One glance at her assistant's sexy brother, though, and her body skips...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insatiable Press 2003
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Summary: "A visual and rhyming celebration of African-American girls' hair"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2019