Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALISummary: For Rayna James and Deacon Claybourne, the road to intimacy is rocky as ever. Devastated by his sister's death, jealous of Rayna's focus on a sexy recording artist and unsettled in his new role as Maddie's father, Deacon lashes out, forcing Rayna to make some agonizing choices. And, despite having a new baby and a hit movie, Juliette Barnes is spiraling downward in a haze of partying, drugs and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NASSummary: Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ILOPeebles, Frances de Pontes
Summary: "The story of an intense female friendship fueled by admiration and affection, envy and pride -- and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Peebles 2018Summary: Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY HORROR USZann, Tara
Summary: "A shy girl teaches a wild boy everything about modern living so he can impress Gam Gam at a family dinner"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ZANSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELPeebles, Frances de Pontes.
Summary: In 1930's Brazil, a vigilante gang invades the home of two seamstresses, kidnapping one of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEEVan Peebles, Melvin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANPPeoples, Daria
Summary: "A day in the park with her grandfather sparks an unlikely connection between a young girl and a street musician without a home"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PEORand, Ayn.
Summary: The story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RANAnno, Mitsumasa
Summary: A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1977
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE ANNVann, David
Summary: "Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother-- a docker at the local container port-in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin accesses a shimmering universe beyond her own. When she befriends an old man at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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Summary: Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIF RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIFAhn, Flora
Summary: When Sunny's new little sister Rosy loses Sunny's favorite toy and Rosy sets off outside by herself to find the missing toy, Sunny must recover both her sister and her toy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AHNStohner, Anu.
Summary: A headstrong sheep rescues the flock when their shepherd is injured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION StohnerCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOAnno, Mitsumasa
Summary: Records in drawings the author's journey through northern Europe and his impressions of the land, the people at work and play, and their art, architecture, folklore, and fairy tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins-World 1978
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Anno 1978Stohner, Anu.
Summary: Santa's littlest Helper is too small to deliver cookies and presents to the world's children, but when he learns that the forest animals never receive anything, he knows just what to do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC StohnRand, Ayn.
Summary: The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of objectivism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 1996
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Summary: The prize-winning author of Legend of a Suicide delivers his highly anticipated debut novel. On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Summary: This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RandVann, David
Summary: In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis étranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANAnt-Man
Summary: "This is the incredible story of an ex-con turned world-saving Super Hero. In Look Out for the Little Guy, Scott Lang shares with the world a bracingly honest account of his struggles and triumphs, from serving time to being a divorced dad to becoming Ant-Man and joining The Avengers. These are stories of epic battles won and lost, as this everyman turned Super Hero finally tells all--from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023