Summary: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRASummary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSBlatt, Jane.
Summary: A celebration of the many ways children interact with books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Blatt 2013Plett, Casey
Summary: Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender as well. At first she dismisses the revelation, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of their increasingly volatile lives Wendy is drawn to the lost pieces of her grandfather's past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLEPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: This novel--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PLAWhite, Edmund
Summary: A tale inspired by the final days of literary master Stephen Crane is set in the underworld of turn-of-the-century New York and follows his death-bed dictation of his final novel, "The Painted Boy," while biding farewell to a long-time love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIWhite, Edmund
Summary: "Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC WHIGlatt, Lisa
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GLAGlatt, Lisa
Summary: On the morning that Nina and Asher Teller's marriage falls apart in their Southern Californian kitchen, their young daughter, Hannah, is the victim of a hit-and-run accident that will leave her leg in a cast for much of the next decade. Nina's next husband introduces her to nudism and soon suggests they plunge further into the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Meanwhile, the remorseful driver,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Arts 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLASummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Platt, Cynthia
Summary: While on a playdate with his new friend, Tina, who uses a wheelchair, George sees some kids playing basketball and jumps right into the action, but Tina is too shy to join in, even though he knows she is a great player.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: "Parker really wants to win the school Science Triathlon--but first she'll have to figure out how to keep her BFF from being stolen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PLAPlatt, Jason
Summary: "In order to avoid extra work, middle schooler Newell agrees to participate in a school-wide talent show--without a talent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Platt, Cynthia.
Summary: It's Thanksgiving and George is so excited. But even on Thanksgiving the curious little monkey manages to stir up some trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday Fiction PlattHedlund, Jody.
Summary: "On occupied Mackinac Island, Voyageur Pierre Durant and local girl Angelique Labelle must decide where their loyalties lie, and what they will risk for love"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEDWhite, Edmund
Summary: Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like Wilde's Dorian Grey, Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling, still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIPlatt, Cynthia
Summary: Lexi has always wanted to know more about the mother who passed away when she was only a child, but her dad will barely talk about her. She loves her stepmom, and her half-brother, but is it so wrong to want to learn about the mom she never got to know? When Lexi's grandmother leaves her a chest that belonged to her mother, it contains letters, pamphlets, flyers, and news articles all from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2022
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Summary: Rhyming text invites readers to join George and the man with the yellow hat as they enjoy summer days filled with fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "In this sturdy novelty board book, we crack the case of the missing golden egg. Where did it go? Did someone take it? In the end, readers will find out what happened to this very special egg"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD PLAPlatt, Lucky
Summary: "What do you see when you imagine a wolf? Sharp, pointy teeth? Big, hungry eyes? A soft sweater and a friendly smile? Wait a minute! The wolf in this story would rather knit than huff, puff, or blow anyone's house down. But that doesn't stop the townsfolk from crying wolf anyway. What's a kind-hearted wolf to do when everyone keeps running and screaming at 'Hello'? It's time to show the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, a nurse operates a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Global Road Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOTErlund, Beth.
Summary: Kenge, a small monitor lizard, surprises all the animals of the Serengeti when he bravely faces off with a pride of lions over food. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Erlund Johnson Studios 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Erlund 2010Paz Soldan, Edmundo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004