Summary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONSummary: Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora for her biggest challenge yet: High School. When her parents mysteriously disappear while searching for the Lost City of Gold, Dora must swing into action and lead a group of ill-equipped high schoolers on a quest to save them. It is a high stakes mission as Dora and her new friends navigate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DORCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TILSummary: 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TILCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD TILSummary: A basketball coach with a checkered past becomes the new coach of the underdog high school basketball team in a 1951 sleepy Indiana farm town, using methods that infuriate the townspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOOSummary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001Barbash, Tom
Summary: An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbash, Tom
Summary: This collection of stories explores the many ways people try to connect to each other and the world around them, from a newly single mother who interferes with her son's love life to a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARDorison, Guillaume.
Summary: The Little Prince has had a peaceful life on Asteroid B612 with his friends Rose and Fox, dreaming under the starry sky. But now star systems are vanishing one by one. An old enemy, the Snake, is bent on destroying the universe ... and it will take all of the Little Prince's imagination and Fox's determination to stand against the Snake and his shadowy monster servants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LITDorison, Guillaume.
Summary: The Chlorophyllians, a farming people, are having serious problems with their crops, all the planets are dying. The Little Prince can see that the problem is the fading starlight, which has a direct influence on all plant life on the planet. Someone called the Astronomer is uprooting stars and planets from the sky, to create a perfect replica of the night on the roof of his tree-house hideout....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LITBarber, Barbara E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARCastro Urío, Bàrbara
Summary: One-by-one twelve colorful cats, viewed through die-cut holes, return to the big white house, and settle down to sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC. 2019
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Summary: Media magnate Tristan Sabina is a charmer whose talents have not gone unnoticed by his assistant Sheri. Following a night of shared passion, the two are bombarded by the paparazzi. Now to stave off scandal, Tristan has asked Sheri to play the role of his fiancée--a part she is only too willing to throw herself into.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2008
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Two girls from France and Italy who possess uncanny respective abilities to communicate with nature and perform music at a preternatural level come into contact with magical and malevolent forces before meeting each other in world-changing ways. "An inspiring literary fantasy about two gifted girls from the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Life of Elves sings of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel.
Summary: The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2008
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Summary: The Little Prince has had a peaceful life on Asteroid B612 with his friends Rose and Fox, dreaming under the starry sky. But now star systems are vanishing one by one. An old enemy, the Snake, is bent on destroying the universe . . . and it will take all of the Little Prince's imagination and Fox's determination to stand against the Snake and his shadowy monster servants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LITBambara, Toni Cade.
Summary: Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMStreisand, Barbra
Summary: In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe where women are denied higher education, Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YENSummary: It's Christmas Eve and an unidentified corpse is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne gardens and Inspector Antoine Jouin investigates the murder. Or was it suicide? It's a case that takes him deep into Paris' secret underbelly and into the heavily wooded park on the outskirts of Paris. In this place, people go to seek out and satisfy their darkest desires surreptitiously. This time, Jouin must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024