Summary: Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwright David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHISummary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMSummary: In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008Summary: When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as the master is being...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER REDPidgeon, Sean.
Summary: An archeologist teams up with a linguist to follow a trail of mysterious clues hidden in an old Welsh war poem that points to the origins of the King Arthur myth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIDPak, Jiyeon
Summary: A young girl notices that her grandfather is unhappy and thinks a new chair might cheer him up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKHigson, Charles
Summary: When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HIGPichon, Liz.
Summary: When their mother sends them packing, three pigs find despicable ways to find new accommodations, but when the big, friendly wolf tries to show them the error of their ways, the pigs respond by huffing and puffing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PichoRebeck, Theresa.
Summary: Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REBSterer, Gideon
Summary: A clever magician teaches young readers his most top-secret tricks as he disappears and reappears throughout the book's pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEMills, Simeon
Summary: "A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MillsRebeck, Theresa.
Summary: "The pathos of Beautiful Ruins meets the hilarity of Crazy Rich Asians in this comedic and tender novel. Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter howyou look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rebeck 2016Rebeck, Theresa.
Summary: With no parental guidance, Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller are caught in a whirlwind rise to fame that quickly spirals out of control. Narrated in four parts by the three sisters and their quiet, neglected brother, this is a sharp, perceptive, and brilliantly written debut novel from an acclaimed playwright. -- back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REBHigson, Charles
Summary: After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HIGSummary: After years of humiliation and failed attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award, Pirate Captain and his oddball crew go on a race to pillage the most booty. They soon cross paths with scientist Charles Darwin, who persuades the Captain that the crew's 'parrot,' Polly, could be the answer to the riches they are searching for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIR RATED PGPichon, Liz
Summary: Irritating his teachers with his lack of focus and creative excuses, Tom Gates spends his time drawing pictures and writing down observations about everything from his grumpy sister and annoying classmate to an unsatisfying camping trip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PICPichon, Liz
Summary: Tom Gates fills his notebooks with sketches and comments about his family and friends, including seeing his sister Delia without her sunglasses, trying to get in shape for Sport's Day, and forming a band, the Dogzombies, with his friends for the school talent show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PICPichon, Liz.
Summary: Penguins at the zoo have an exciting afternoon when one finds a camera left behind by a visitor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE PicPichon, Liz
Summary: Tom Gates fills his notebooks with sketches and comments about his two-week school vacation, tormenting his sister Delia, his hopes of getting the most gold stars from Mr. Fullerman, in spite of his rival Marcus, and his neglected homework.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PICPichon, Liz
Summary: Tom Gates, a middle schooler who documents his eventful life in a humorous, illustrated journal, describes his adventures on a school field trip, an outing in which even his sister wants him to take part.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PICPiven, Ḥanokh
Summary: A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PivSterer, Gideon
Summary: "Bird builds the perfect nest, the only problem is everyone else wants to sleep in it!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019