Summary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: In this Western, the action begins as Kansas Red rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout. The boy asks Red for help protecting his family from outlaw Thorn, who has just kidnapped Billy's mother, Carol. As Red and Billy ride off to rescue Carol, they run into beautiful, tough-as-nails Leslie, who's managed to escape Thorn's men. They race to stop Thorn's wedding to Carol with guns...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DESBitov, Andreĭ
Summary: Seemingly unrelated stories attempt to recreate and identify the writer of a novel once read by the author.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMiedoso, Andres
Summary: After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEFeiffer, Jules
Summary: Our story opens in Bay City in 1931 in the midst of the Great Depression. Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way, as his Irish immigrant father would have wanted, against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his home town. At the same time he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FEIFeiffer, Jules
Summary: Although Rupert liked watching his owner Mandy dance during the day, he secretly enjoyed dancing at night while Mandy slept.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FEIFeiffer, Jules.
Summary: "Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FEIFeiffer, Kate.
Summary: A young girl describes all the ways in which her mother and father conspire to ruin her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy escapes from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ITAKurkov, Andreĭ
Summary: Sergey Sergeyich is one of the last residents of a Ukrainian village in the "Grey Zone," a no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces in Crimea. Sergeyich's one pleasure in life is taking care of his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must move the bees to a place they can safely collect pollen. On his journey, he will meet people on both sides of the battle lines in a country...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURKurkov, Andreĭ.
Summary: In the prequel to Penguin Lost, aspiring writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev--he's out of work and his only friend is a penguin, Misha, that he rescued when the local zoo started getting rid of animals. Even more nerve-wracking: a local mobster has taken a shine to Misha and wants to keep borrowing him for events. But Viktor thinks he's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville International Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURLivadnyĭ, Andreĭ
Summary: He is a cyber dweller. A gamer who's grown up in the web of virtual illusion woven from hundreds of phantom worlds. His biggest dream is to dump the real world for good. His desperate hunger for new experiences forces him to take a risk and become one of the first proud owners of a neuronet implant. The new gadget becomes part of him, but soon it's not enough. If only he could finally burn all...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Summary: A baby does not want to go to sleep, even as everything else around her wishes her a good night.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2012
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Summary: Desmond and Andres visit the acquarium where they discover a mermaid whose song puts anyone who hears it under a spell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEFeiffer, Jules
Summary: Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things that film noir could only dream of" (Chris Ware). In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FEIFeiffer, Jules
Summary: "When George's mother asks him to add one plus one, two plus two, and three plus three, George would rather eat, go for a walk, and take a nap. But soon George finds himself in a colorful dream about . . . numbers!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Di Capua Books, Harper Collins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FEIFeiffer, Jules.
Summary: A mother dog tries to teach her pup how to bark, and is surprised at why he wasn't learning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1999
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FEICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE+ FEIKurkov, Andreĭ
Summary: A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Penguin Lost finds Viktor Zolotaryov sneaking back into Kiev under an assumed identity to undertake a dangerous mission: He wants to find Misha, his penguin, whom he fears has fallen into the hands of the criminal mob looking for Viktor himself. Guilt-ridden and determined to do what it takes, Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who employs him in an election-rigging campaign, in return for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURMiedoso, Andres
Summary: Desmond, Andres, and their ghost-friend Zax take turns trying to tell the scariest story of all while gathered around the campfire on a camping trip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEMiedoso, Andres
Summary: Desmond and Andres attend a school dance at Kersville Elementary that is complicated by reluctant dancers, over-loud music, teacher supervision, and ghouls on the dance floor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: A little girl and her favorite dress have extraordinary adventures together, but when the girl emigrates from Greece to the United States they are separated, and the dress travels the world searching for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANDDandrea, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 1986