Summary: Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALMitford, Nancy
Summary: "Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley. In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin's country house, including her rebellious daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, A division of Random House LLC 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITMogford, Thomas
Summary: "An old friend persuades Gibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti to take a well-earned rest on Corfu's beautiful north-east coast. But when the bloodied body of a young Albanian is found and a local man accused of his murder, Spike reluctantly agrees to take the case. Beneath the island's veneer of wealth and privilege Spike uncovers truths so damaging that those involved will go to any lengths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOGMogford, Thomas.
Summary: "A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep. Solomon is on the run. A Spanish girl has been found with her throat cut on a beach in Tangiers and he is accused of her murder. He has managed to skip across the Straits but the Moroccan authorities want him back. Spike travels to Tangiers to try to delay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOGMountford, Karl James
Summary: "One morning, Fox is drawn toward the forest. There, in a clearing, he sees something small and silent, perhaps forgotten. It's a bird, lying as still as can be. Fox is confused, upset, and angry. Is the bird broken? Why doesn't it move or sing, no matter what Fox does? His curious antics are spied by a little moth, who shares a comforting thought about the circles in the sky -- that the sun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOUCokal, Susann
Summary: Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSSloan, Susan R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOSloan, Susan R.
Summary: A Jewish high school teacher is falsely accused of murder, based on evidence of bigoted students. It happens on Seward Island, off Seattle after the murder of a 15-year-old pregnant girl, stabbed repeatedly in the stomach. Police chief Martinez and detective Ginger Early have an explosive case. By the author of Guilt by Association.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOMcKenna, Susie (Susan G.)
Summary: "Young married couple Andy and Deana Harris head up to Canada on an exciting snowshoe adventure. When Deana's snowshoe breaks, her husband leaves her to go for help--or does he? Deana soon comes to the horrifying realization that her husband has left her for dead, and she must use all her wilderness know-how to get out alive. Deana fell for the oldest trick in the book: a handsome face hiding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKManso, Susana Madinabeitia
Summary: A boy describes different things that happen in the springtime, from rainbows in the sky to birds singing, and declares he wants to imitate them and that he will do each activity well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Manatee Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: BOARD SPANISH MANNielsen-Fernlund, Susin
Summary: Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NIEDeb, Sopan
Summary: "From a New York Times reporter and memoirist Sopan Deb comes a heartwarming and charmingly funny debut novel about a box in the attic that leads one Bengali-American family down a path toward rediscovering family love, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his 60s, he finds himself iced out of his traditional Bengali community after an uncouth divorce from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUURautbord, Sugar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAUSosin, Danielle
Summary: Lake Superior, the north country, the great fresh-water expanse. Frigid. Lethal. Wildly beautiful. The Long-Shining Waters gives us three stories whose characters are separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by a shared geography. In 1622, Grey Rabbit-an Ojibwe woman, a mother and wife-struggles to understand a dream-life that has taken on fearful dimensions. As she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOSZusak, Markus.
Summary: Before THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: THE UNDERDOG, FIGHTING RUBEN WOLFE, and GETTING THE GIRL. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, and generally disappointing girls, their parents, and their much more motivated older siblings. They're intensely loyal to each other, brothers at their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ZUSShafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAHole, Stian.
Summary: As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLRim, Sujean
Summary: "Chee-Kee, a young panda, moves with his parents to a new land of opportunity. Just when he's resigned to never fit in, Chee-Kee finds a way to use his own experience and ingenuity to save the day and show that he's one of a kind in all the best ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMSeeboruth, Sumana
Summary: "'Undies! For me. Like those, Daddy!' This excited tot can't wait to get a pair of undies. Time to learn to use the potty!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2022
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Summary: Leonard's loneliness comes to an end when he meets a new cat and they spend their days exploring the city together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022