Summary: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MANNoyes, Anna
Summary: This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book. Charles Baxter Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOYSummary: "While vacationing in Morocco, Ben and Jo McKenna are suddenly immersed in a dangerous situation after a French spy dies in Ben's arms. Discovering that their son has been kidnapped and taken to England, the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of espionage, assassinations and terror. Soon, all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth that leads to a chilling climax...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER MANSummary: Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIASummary: The sequel to Hope and glory, Bill Rohan is grown up and drafted into the army where he and his best mate battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUENoyes, Anna
Summary: "It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's sinister past and their absent mother, whom their father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Summary: The trial of Stephen Bellamy and Susan Ives, accused of murdering Bellamy's wife Madeline, lasts eight days. A trial that seems straightforward at its outset grows increasingly confounding as it proceeds, and surprises abound; by the time the closing arguments are made, however, the reader, like the jury, has all the evidence needed to pass judgement on the two defendants --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HartMoyes, Jojo
Summary: "Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYMuir, Tamsyn
Summary: Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life, but leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MUITomasi, Peter.
Summary: It's the prelude to "The Blackest Night" as the "War of Light" continues to intensify! Mongul attempts to establish his hold on the Sinestro Corps by enslaving the planet Daxam and making it the home world of his Corps. What does Sinestro's right hand man, Arkillo, think of all this? And will Sodam Yat, the Green Lantern known as Ion, fight to save his homeworld, which he's vowed to never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC TOMMuir, Tamsyn
Summary: "Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? "You will love Nona, and Nona loves you." -Alix E. Harrow "Unlike anything I've ever read." -V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth "Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original." -The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUITomasi, Peter
Summary: "Batman and Robin Vol. 5 collects the DC Comics--The New 52 origin of Two-Face and Carrie Kelley! The origin of Two-Face begins as Batman finds himself in the crossfire of a vengeful war between Two-Face and Erin McKillen! Both are hell bent on killing each other and anyone else who dares to step between them. And what are the mysterious connections between Harvey Dent's life and the origin of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATTamarit, Nuria
Summary: "Fleeing the fires of her war-torn homeland, a young woman travels to the New World in search of gold to rebuild her life. In this strange, lawless land, Joana encounters friends (the kind Native women Tala and Opa), foes (the cruel gold hunter Matwei and his men), and an unexpected traveling companion who may just be her good luck charm - and amidst the icy reaches of the wilderness, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 TAMGores, Joe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GORNobel, Julia
Summary: Before returning to Wellsworth, twelve-year-old Emmy receives a letter from her father telling her to trust no one, but the Order is up to no good and she will need help to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NOBTamani, Liara
Summary: "Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Tamani 2020Tamani, Liara
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMGores, Joe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORSummary: In this Australian film, a couple on their small boat rescues a half-delirious stranger from the sea. This man is a demented killer and the couple are soon in a fight for their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1989
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEAHoles, Frank.
Summary: Michigan?s legendary Dogman returns in Nagual: Dawn of the Dogmen by Frank Holes, Jr. The third book in the series is a masterful blend of fantasy and folklore, delving into the pre-dawn history of the mysterious creature and then rushing forward to the present day. The supernatural beast is seen from two fronts. The first encounter, part of a 1700s French fur-trader?s dream, chronicles the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLMerchant, Tamzin
Summary: When Cordelia Hatmaker's beloved father fails to return from a sea voyage, she is determined not only to find him, but to discover who is using magic to start a war--and why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series MerchantMerchant, Tamzin
Summary: Cordelia Hatmaker has saved England from war, but danger is lurking around every corner, and she must convince the rival Maker families to work together for once--not only to bring her father home, but also to save the very essence of magic itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022