Summary: This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BARLattari, Katie
Summary: "A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees. Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lattari 2021Marra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: After America's entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father's past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARGinsburg, Mirra.
Summary: Every night the sun goes to the house of his grandma, the deep blue sky, is tucked in bed by his grandpa, the wind, and is awakened the following day by the morning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1981
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Summary: The scholar Faust makes a pact with the forces of evil to gain higher truths, and must pay for what he has received.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAUHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORJortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORSummary: A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPUSummary: "A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEAMurgia, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The only way sixteen-year-old Nate, a Genetically Engineered Metatissue, can get life-saving medication is to work for a shadowy terrorist organization, which would mean leaving the boy he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INGIngrande Mora, Maria
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Brynn can't stop thinking about death. Her intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety leave her feeling helpless--and hopeless. So after her mom interprets one of Brynn's blog posts as a suicide note, she takes extreme measures, confiscating Brynn's phone, blocking her Internet access, and banishing her to stay with her father who lives "off the grid" on a houseboat in the Florida...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INGMurata, Kiyoko
Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURMurata, Sayaka
Summary: "With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURRoosevelt, Maura
Summary: The Whitbys: a dynasty akin to the Astors, once enormously wealthy real-estate magnates who were considered "the landlords of New York." There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the longtime family lawyer to his clan of children (from four separate marriages) and the news...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOMunda, Rosaria
Summary: "Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives--and for each other--as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUNMurata, Sayaka
Summary: "As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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Summary: Kelsey and her father begin tapping sugar maple trees as family and friends gather to help in the process of turning the harvested sap into maple syrup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KNOSummary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICKnowlton, Laurie Lazzaro.
Summary: Cowboy Slim Jim Watkins has everything he needs to start his own ranch--except a unique brand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KNOGainza, María
Summary: The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019