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African American women Fiction Barbie (Fictitious character) Cerebrovascular disease Patients United States Drama Friendship Fiction Grandfathers Fiction Horses Fiction Horses Juvenile fiction Physician and patient United States Drama Psychiatrists California Los Angeles Drama Race relations FictionSummary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Girl 2004Summary: 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 COMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: A widowed professor, trying to raise his overachieving teenage daughter on his own, learns about relationships from a former student and an unexpected visit from his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMASummary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANSummary: Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV's most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: American Horror Story is TV's most original new drama, a deeply stylish psychosexual.The Harmons' fresh start in a new home deviously twists to reveal discoveries of love, sex and murderous revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEChambers, Essie
Summary: In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: Moving to a new part of London, Kwasi finds refuge and inspiration in an eclectic and run-down charity shop where he forms an unexpected friendship with its owner, giving each of them a new sense of belonging until local politics threaten to divide them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANIBagley, Jessixa
Summary: When Bea's best friend, Henry, seems sad and stops talking to her, she gently tries to find out what is wrong.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAGJestin, Victor
Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JESGaynor, Jessie
Summary: "Jane Dorner, account manager at a flashy New York public relations firm, has two modes: PR Jane, twenty-five, peppy, chummy and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator or a self-care-slash-bereavement subscription box; and Actual Jane, twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre work days and lackluster dates while paralyzed by her crushing mountain of medical debt. When her job performance is called...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYHaas, Jessie.
Summary: Gramps gets a good bargain on an apparently perfect bay mare for Lily, but because the horse is named Beware he suspects that there may be something wrong with her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HAAMihalik, Jessie
Summary: As a recovery specialist, Lexi Bowen's jobs typically require more trickery and thievery than honest work. Her former captain might not approve of her flexible morals, but stealing artifacts for rich assholes pays the bills, and Lexi's had enough of war and death. The FHP left her to die once; she doesn't plan to give them a chance to finish the job. Unfortunately, her latest contract takes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIHParker, Jessie.
Summary: Barbie's horse is scared to jump. But Barbie knows that a true champ never gives up!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE PARSima, Jessie
Summary: When a house believes she is haunted, she tries everything in her power to stop it in order to get people to move in--until she realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIMSima, Jessie
Summary: Spencer excitedly takes his new pet to the park, the veterinarian's office, and a birthday party, but for a pet balloon, those places are full of danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIMAMessier, Mireille
Summary: "When two siblings go on a treasure hunt, they aren't sure exactly what kind of treasure they are looking for. What they do know is that treasures are shiny, mysterious and precious--and that all the best treasures are hard to find! As they explore the forest together, the pair learns that the most special treasures are not always something we can pick up in our hands"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Books Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MESBurton, Jessie
Summary: Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, distrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BURBurton, Jessie.
Summary: On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office–leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin.But Nella's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Greengrass, Jessie
Summary: "The remarkable first novel from the award-winning British writer, Jessie Greengrass 'It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHaas, Jessie.
Summary: Nora helps her grandfather mow the field by watching for little animals in the tall grass and warning him to circle the horses and mowing machine around them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1994