Summary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OAnderson, Kevin J.
Summary: With a fierce war raging and resources running low, the U.S.S Enterprise has been assigned a sensitive diplomatic mission - to enlist aid from the alien race known as the Gorn. But the Gorn have a crisis of their own, a brewing revolution in their ranks. And when it comes to the Federation, some of the Gorn have long memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2012
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Summary: An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the 70s, Kong was the only kaiju who did not participate in the epic battle against King Gidorah, and Godzilla is determined to become the final apex predator. Meanwhile, the humans begin to suspect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GODCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GODCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GODMenard, Rachel
Summary: Seventeen-year-olds Gen and Castor of Olympia race to be the first to complete six nearly impossible challenges to obtain their greatest desire, and only one will win while the other walks away with nothing--if she walks away at all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENPak, Kenard
Summary: "In a simple, evocative conversation with nature, a young girl witnesses how the season changes from summer to autumn"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E PAKCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKPittard, Hannah
Summary: "From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel--based on true events--of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post)... It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight 007, which had been chartered to ferry home...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITGirard, Anne.
Summary: "When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Girard 2014Pickard, Nancy.
Summary: One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents' house--or what she calls her parents' house, though they died when Jody was just a little girl. The three bring shocking news: the man convicted of murdering Jody's father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It's been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PICPittard, Hannah.
Summary: Nora went missing on Halloween. Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize their own, the neighborhood boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl-- and a life-- that no longer exists, except in the imagination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Pittard 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PITRebeck, 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 REBSimard, Rémy
Summary: "Meet Simone, a sweet, rosy-cheeked little girl. Meet Morris, a green, googly-eyed monster. These best friends are back for more adventures! Join them in the topsy-turvy monster world, where stars poop, plants grumble about the weather, and babies are dropped off by fire-breathing dragons! And what do these monsters find scary? A cute kid with a can-do attitude!"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SIMBenard, Lacey
Summary: "Counting in two languages is so much fun with our dim sum friends!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bitty Bao, LLC 2022
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Summary: "Meet Morris. He loves worms in his spaghetti and zombie bowling. Meet Simone. She loves flowers and puppies. Despite their differences, Simone and Morris are best friends. Even if Simone won't eat worms. Jokes abound as we join these two unlikely friends in their hilarious adventures in Morris's monster world!"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SIMPittard, Hannah
Summary: "Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress, Maggie--recently mugged at gunpoint--is lately not herself, and Mark is at a loss about what to make of the stranger he calls his wife. When they are forced to stop for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITPittard, Hannah.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence. As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumors, divergent suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindell's story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Picard, Jean-Luc
Summary: "The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history. His extraordinary life and career makes for dramatic reading: court martials, unrequited love, his capture and torture at the hand of the Cardassians, his assimilation with the Borg and countless other encounters as captain of the celebrated Starship Enterprise"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICPak, Kenard
Summary: "In a simple, cheerful conversation with nature, two young children witness how the season changes from autumn to winter"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PAKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKPak, Kenard
Summary: In simple text, a young boy watches how nature changes from winter into spring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAKPickard, Nancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICPickard, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICRebeck, 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 REBÉnard, Mathias
Summary: "As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2017