Ramos, Vanessa
Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAMSummary: Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Summary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: Nine years after giving up his superhero alter-ego, Jefferson Pierce is just your average, everyday high school principal. But the electricity-controlling crimefighter must reluctantly come out of retirement to protect his community from a dangerous gang known as the 100.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the season begins, encouraged by the Red Wedding slaughter in the Riverlands that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats from the south, north and east?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 4Summary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWERamos, James.
Summary: "Secretly hooking up with popular cheerleader Karla Ortega, who repeatedly snubs him in public, multicultural geek and nerd club member Cameron Carson meets Mackenzie Briggs, who isn't afraid to be herself, and unexpectedly bonds with this girl who accepts him for who he is"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAMSummary: After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWORamos, Joanne
Summary: Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMRamos, NoNieqa
Summary: Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAMRamos, Mario.
Summary: Quand un loup a besoin d'être rassuré, que fait-il ? Il va poser cette question tout simple aux habitants de la forêt: "Dis-moi, qui est le plus fort ?" Et tout le monde, du Petit Chaperon Rouge, aux Trois Petits Cochons en passant par les sept Nains, tout le monde répond: le plus fort, c'est le loup. Alors, quand une espèce de petit crapaud de rien du tout lui tient tête, le loup se fâche...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecole des loisirs 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 RAM FRENCHSummary: Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time ever, only to run afoul of a villain's evil plot!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARSummary: Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, superpowered protector of Freeland. And he doesn't fight alone. He is joined by his superpowered daughters, Anissa, aka Thunder, and Jennifer, aka Lightning, as well as his ex-wife, metahuman expert Lynn. Together, the Pierce family combats the ills eroding their city, including a menacing gang that calls itself...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AllSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIBlakeslee, Vanessa
Summary: "Growing up as the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, teenaged Mercedes Martinez knows a world of maids, armed guards, and private drivers. When she falls in love with Manuel, a fiery young activist with a passion for his faith and his country, she begins to understand the suffering of the desplazados who share her land. A startling discovery about her father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLADiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Riley, Vanessa
Summary: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoeder, Vanessa
Summary: Using a cardboard box as his home when he is born without a shell, Terrance the turtle enjoys the uniqueness and versatility of his home until another turtle’s insensitive remarks make him question his differences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROEFranco Ramos, Jorge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASummary: In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014