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Summary: "Text based on a Hebrew lullaby tells the story of a Jewish refugee family traveling by night to find a safe home in a new land"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE G

Wisler, G. Clifton.

Summary: In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lodestar Books 1997

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WISLE

Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Summary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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

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

Juster, Norton

Summary: When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Juster 2011

Miller, G. F.

Summary: As eighteen-year-old high school Fairy Godmother Charity faces an existential crisis and blackmail from Noah, on whom she has a crush, she learns a great deal about her magic and herself.-- Charity doesn't wear a poofy dress or go around waving a wand, but she is a fairy godmother. She knows the deepest desires of the student population at Jack London High School -- because she can glimpse...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021

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

Hennessey, M. G

Summary: Hiding his transgender identity behind a veneer of an everyday student who loves baseball and working on his graphic novel, Shane is threatened with exposure by a classmate and begins a painful journey toward acceptance and empathy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEN

Summary: Anna and Ben are a couple who can't stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to turn all their fights into song, and with the help of their neighbor Dave, they start a band.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAN

Summary: Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013

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

Summary: After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCI Entertainment 1965

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

Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MY

Summary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Mitter, Matt

Summary: "Join Sofie and all her friends on the sweetest day of the year as they make Valentine's Day cards and paper hearts, decorate cakes and cookies, and have a holiday party to celebrate their friendship! Lift more than 50 flaps to discover fun surprises and be introduced to early learning concepts including shapes and matching."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun International 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIT

Summary: When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love - proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANY

Summary: Freshman Rusty Cartwright arrives at college and decides he no longer wants to be the boring geek from high school. He decides to pledge a fraternity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED R

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

Disher, Garry

Summary: "The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIS

Messer, Claire.

Summary: "Have you ever had a grumpy day and not known why? Penguin is having a grumpy day like that. No matter what he does, he just can't shake it! Sometimes the only thing left to do is wash the grumpy day away and start over"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MES

Mistry, Rohinton

Summary: A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIS

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COM

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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