Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: 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: A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAK NOT RATEDKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KERSummary: Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIKGlynn, Connie
Summary: When the students at Rosewood Hall are targeted by members of a secret society, Lottie Pumpkin and Ellie Wolf must find the culprit before the school is forced to close its doors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLYWard, Lynd
Summary: Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WARGlynn, Dylan
Summary: Wherever Rain Boy goes, rain follows, and when he is invited to Sun Kidd's birthday party the other children complain that his presence is ruining their fun; now Sun Kidd is hiding in her room because she is upset by her friends' behavior, and an apparently an endless storm has descended on the world--until they all discover that something wonderful happens when rain and sun finally get together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2020
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Summary: Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1980
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARWard, Lynd
Summary: Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARGlynn, Alan.
Summary: On a bright Saturday morning, a Wall Stree investment banker is shot dead while joggin in Central park. Hours later, one of New York's savviest hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has hunch that they are connected, and when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, her theory is confirmed. As the story blows wide open and Ellen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLYGlynn, Connie
Summary: Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who has spent her life longing for the extraordinary. Ellie Wolf is the crown princess of Maradova, who wants nothing more than a chance at an ordinary life. When fate puts Lottie and Ellie in the same dorm room at the prestigious Rosewood Hall, there's only one solution: for the girls to swap identities, and live the lives they've always dreamed of. But at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLYWynn, Patricia.
Summary: "Returned from a three-year Grand Tour, Gideon Viscount St. Mars is accused of murdering his own father. Son of a Jacobite with no friends at Court, Gideon must escape arrest or be hanged. The only person willing to help him is Hester Kean, waiting woman to the lady he had hoped to wed. With her intelligence and his daring--in the guise of the highwayman, Blue Satan--they uncover the secrets...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pemberley Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYNPeppins, Brianna
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PEPPeppins, Brianna
Summary: "Avi LeBeau juggles navigating her first year at a Historically Black Boarding School with the revelation that her older sister Belle is in an abusive romantic relationship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PEPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PEPSummary: Peppa is a lovable little piggy who lives with her younger brother George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig. Peppa loves playing games, dressing up, visiting exciting places, and making new friends, but her absolute favorite thing is jumping up and down in muddy puddles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PEPUllmann, Linn
Summary: The loving but difficult marriage between Siri and Jon is challenged during a summer visit on the coast of Norway by the disappearance of their nanny and the wrenching feelings of guilt suffered by everyone associated with her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ULLUllmann, Linn
Summary: Presents a genre-bending novel about time, memory, and the author's extraordinary childhood as the daughter of a genius filmmaker and his muse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION ULLUllmann, Linn.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDFIC ULLPepper, Andrew
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEPSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOEppes, Cindy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPPSummary: "Peppa invites her friends to a very special birthday party, complete with a magic show by the Amazing Mysterio--also known as Daddy Pig. Find out what birthday surprises are in store for Peppa!"--Pate [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019