Summary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHEMather, Matthew
Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMather, Matthew
Summary: Something big is coming ... big enough to destroy the entire solar system ... and it's heading straight for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter and wife, who are vacationing in Italy: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Summary: Science fiction tales of derring-do, heroism and romance. Set in the future, they relate the adventures of Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo as they battle the forces of the evil Imperial army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasfilm 2013
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI STAHarvey, Matthea
Summary: Ruby Small's embarrassingly eccentric parents take her on a vacation to Norway where she acquires an unwanted pet, a glacier named Cecil, who finds a way to melt Ruby's heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARSummary: A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RINNew, Mathew
Summary: Billy dreams of being a great explorer like his parents, but when he and his friend Barrace, a duck and college linguistics professor, undertake four adventures, they discover little but trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NEWSummary: This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Post 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POSRoth, Matthue.
Summary: Presents illustrated adaptations of three Franz Kafka stories, including "The Metamorphosis," in which Gregor Samsa awakens one day to find that he has been transformed into an enormous bug, and two shorter works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One Peace Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROTSummary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA PRI1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Mathews, Francine
Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCMathews, Francine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: Malou, a mixed-race orphan, is on her own for the first time, trying to discover her parents' identities.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Audio 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC JOCSummary: One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BITDavis, Rusty
Summary: Rakeheart, Wyoming, is a town with troubles. Murders. Violence. Deceit. Into its crosscurrents comes Kane, a troubleshooter sent west to learn why ex-army officer Jared Wilkins was killed. Kane encounters hostility at every turn. The rancher's widow emerges as his prime suspect even as the townspeople who ask him to become sheriff make it clear they are playing a deceitful game. As Kane tries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVLubchansky, Mattie
Summary: "Newly-out trans artist's assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend's bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters -- think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Though they have not identified as a man for over a year, Sammie's old friends haven't quite gotten the message -- as evidenced by their former best friend Adam...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUBMayhew, Julie
Summary: "For seven months of the year, the remote island of Lark is fogbound, cut off completely from the mainland. Three strangers arrive before the mists fall: Ben Hailey, a charismatic teacher looking to make his mark, teenager Viola Kendrick, and her mother, both seeking a place to hide from unspeakable tragedy. As the winter fog sets in, the presence of the newcomers looms large in this tight-knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYBowling, Dusti
Summary: While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWMatthews, Beryl.
Summary: After a traumatic past, life finally seems to be looking up for Hanna Foster. But war is on its way... London, 1938 Hanna and Jack Foster had been sent to an orphanage when their parents were killed in a train crash, but were separated when a couple adopted Jack. Bullied and treated like a slave, it soon became clear it was a dreadful mistake. In desperation, Jack takes his future into his own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2012
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Matthews, Carole.
Summary: Lucy Lombard and her fellow addicts--Autumn, Nadia, and Chantal--join together to form the Chocolate Lovers' Club, which meets at a café called Chocolate Heaven whenever there is a crisis in one of the member's lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008