Summary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: A hilarious look at marriage, divorce, and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakery, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IT'SCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITS RATED RCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ITSSummary: Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROSJohns, Geoff
Summary: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps must join forces with their rivals of the other colors to battle the Black Lanterns, an army of undead superheroes and villains--all their deceased friends and foes--who are out to destroy all life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHSummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVSummary: Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNPSummary: En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MINPerera, Anna.
Summary: Innocent until proven guilty? Not here, you're not. He's fifteen. He's hasn't done anything wrong. It was supposed to be just a trip to visit his mum's family in Pakistan. But for Khalid Ahmed, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. He's kidnapped—then taken to a place thousands of miles from his home in the UK. A place where torture and terror are the daily routine. A place he may never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2011
View online at OverDrive
Perera, Anna.
Summary: Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PERSummary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMAlai
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Zentner, Alexi.
Summary: A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENFinn, Perdita
Summary: "Back in Equestria, Twilight Sparkle listens to the music of springtime ... she lets the sounds take her away on a rock'n' roll daydream ... DJ Pon-3 suggests the girls start a band in time for the Spring Fling."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FICZentner, Alexi
Summary: "All Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn't seem impossible. He's a standout varsity football player. A good student. He works at the local movie theater to help his mother make ends meet. But it's hard to live a normal life when everybody in town knows that your stepfather is a white supremacist--a white supremacist who was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENDonne, Alexa
Summary: Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONWoolley, Persia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poseidon Press 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOFinn, Perdita
Summary: "The third exciting adventure in the Equestria Girls series! The girls rock a new story about friendship at Canterlot High --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC FINThomas, Lex.
Summary: "In this final installment of the Quarantine trilogy, David and Will are alive, but on the outside of McKinley High, while Lucy is the last of the trinity left inside to deal with Hilary, who will exact revenge before taking over McKinley High"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOMartin, Alexa
Summary: Maxwell has finally met an opponent that he can't best in this new football romance from the author of Fumbled. According to Brynn Larson, Maxwell Lewis is more trouble than he's worth. She doesn't care if he's a football god with a rock-hard body that brings most women to their knees. After an encounter that ends poorly, she's not interested in giving him a second chance. The last thing Brynn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPearl, Alexa
Summary: Sasha and her better-than-best friend Wyatt have discovered Crystal Cove, the magical land where other flying horses live! - Cover, page 4.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction PearlThomas, Lex.
Summary: When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EgmontUSA 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOFinn, Perdita
Summary: Canterlot High meets its rival school, Crystal Prep Academy, in a competition that's a long-standing tradition: The Friendship Games. Sunset Shimmer is tasked with keeping magic out of the games to avoid the appearance of impropriety while she and her friends compete against Crystal Prep's top students led by someone with an equal amount of interest in Equestrian magic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Martin, Alexa
Summary: "Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn't anticipate inheriting her grandma's bookstore, The Book Nook. She's in way over her head even before the shop's resident book club, comprising six of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2022