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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Cats Fiction Conduct of life Juvenile fiction Country life Michigan Tioga Fiction Jewish girls New Jersey Fiction Sisters New Jersey Fiction Teenage girls New Jersey Fiction Tioga (Mich.) Fiction Upper Peninsula (Mich.) FictionWatts, Julia
Summary: Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south. Their journey through the heart of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatts, Julia
Summary: "In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATSummary: Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, and finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ShallowsCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHA RATED PG-13Summary: A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILLMignola, Mike
Summary: "Join monster hunters extraordinaire and jump into eerie and whimsical Victorian-style tales of monster hunters, vampires, and supernatural sleuths in this collection of stories that is equal parts chilling and charming. In this collected edition, Professor Meinhardt and his assistant Mr. Knox pursue the undead and Mr. Higgins's tragic history; explore strange supernatural happenings with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 MIGSummary: "Join your pals, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph and Zuko in this treasure trove of short stories from the world of Avatar: the last airbender. From Earth King Kuei to the Kyoshi Warriors, and Mai to the Boulder, your favorite friends are back for a wide-ranging exploration of life in their world. And, where they go, danger, fun and hijinks are sure to follow!" -- Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics 2020
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Summary: "Join Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this graphic novel that features a comic adaptation of the classic story Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, classic Schulz strips, previously published stories, and an all-new original story about Linus and his trusty blanket! From rainy days to learning new things and working as a team, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang have plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determened to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyling takes Rudy on a bumy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams." -- container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CROSummary: 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
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Summary: "The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANSummary: In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SELSimon, Clea.
Summary: Caught up in her probe into a dangerous new designer drug, reporter Theda Krakow puts her investigation on hold when an animal rights activist, who had been struggling to rescue feral cats on the eve of a ferocious winter storm, is killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMHill, Patti (Patti Ann)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILLacy, Patti.
Summary: A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Dallas hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Simon, Clea.
Summary: "When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has too good a nose not to lead her to the remains of the beautiful young woman, and despite her own best instincts, Pru can't avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat-and Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimon, Clea.
Summary: Dulcie Schwartz struggles to prove her innocence when a scholar she recently threatened to kill for ruining her thesis turns up dead, in a case that is further complicated by cryptic advice from ghost cat Mr. Grey and her kitten, Esmé.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimon, Clea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCallahan, Patti
Summary: "It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CallahanSedaris, David
Summary: "In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEDMedearis, Angela Shelf
Summary: A child visits a friend who lives in a topsy-turvy house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Sedaris, David.
Summary: The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 SEDCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit SedarisCerato, Mattia
Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERGage, Cully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1993