Summary: Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIFSummary: Six characters recreate different stages in Bob Dylan's career. Begins with the wanderings of an 11-year-old black runaway named Woody Guthrie. His raucous duet with Richie Havens on "Tombstone Blues." Ends with a silver-haired Billy the Kid watching the Old West die before his eyes. In the interim, there's the folk singer-turned-preacher, the actor, and a rock star.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IMSummary: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: Ashley Jensen is back as formidable and fashionable PI Agatha Raisin in Series 4 of this comic mystery series based on the books by MC Beaton.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: A father brings up his baby girl as a single dad after the unexpected death of his wife who died a day after their daughter's birth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATSummary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLASummary: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LITGreig, Louise
Summary: When a little boy opens the Night Box, darkness swoops out, a fox uncurls, and a thousand stars sparkle and shine. Night flows freely then, cavorting and exploring, caring for all its creatures until morning comes, and it's time for Night to rest again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GREHeilig, Heidi
Summary: "Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HEIReis-Frankfort, Tamar
Summary: Dandelion Launchers is a structured phonic reading series for beginner readers that can be used with any phonic program. These decodable books were developed by reading and dyslexia specialists and offer children engaging stories right from the beginning of learning to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phonic Books Ltd 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE REIMcAuley, Roisin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCARaisin, Ross
Summary: Give it Tom. Every lunchtime, every P.E. game, bouncing off the walls for years. Give it Tom. Give it Tom. Tom Pearman has been tipped for football stardom all his young life. But after spending his teenage years training with a Premier League team, the bright future he imagined for himself disappears from one day to the next when he finds out his club has decided to let him go. Now he's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAIReiser, Lynn.
Summary: Child and cat prepare for bedtime, and suddenly the cat disappears from sight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC REIReiser, Lynn.
Summary: When two dogs, Whistle and Spot, play at racing and jumping, sometimes one wins and sometimes the other one does, but until Spot learns to swim, Whistle always beats him across the pond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REIReiser, Lynn.
Summary: Puppies from one to ten are counted and sorted according to their different features.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REICohen, Ivan
Summary: When Giganta steals the Pandora Jar from a museum in New York and opens it, releasing a wave of misery that changes the behavior of every human it touches, Wonder Woman suspects that somebody else is behind Giganta's actions; on the hidden island that was once her home Wonder Woman discovers that the real villain is Ares, God of War, and he is planning to use the jar to unleash World War III on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COHHeilig, Heidi
Summary: Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's ship. As long as he has a map, Nix's father can sail The Temptation to any place, any time. But now he's uncovered the one map he's always sought: 1868 Honolulu, before Nix's mother died in childbirth. Nix's entire existence is at stake: if her father changes the past, it could erase Nix's future, her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HEIHeilig, Heidi
Summary: Nix's life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix's father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he's uncovered the one map he's always sought, 1868 Honolulu, before Nix's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: In 1977 San Francisco, Julie wants to be just like her new friend Carla, until she discovers that Carla is either in big danger or telling big lies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC REIReisz, Tiffany.
Summary: Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery. When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen--a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRaisin, Rebecca
Summary: "When bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered the opportunity for a job exchange with her Parisian friend Sophie, saying yes is a no-brainer--after all, what kind of romantic would turn down six months in Paris? Sarah is sure she's in for the experience of a lifetime--days spent surrounded by literature in a gorgeous bookshop, and the chance to watch the snow fall on the Eiffel Tower. Plus, now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAIReisz, Tiffany
Summary: On the day of Lia's university graduation party, her parents--wealthy art collectors with friends in high places--gift her a beautiful wine cup, a rare artifact decorated with roses. It's a stunning gift, and one that August Bowman, a friend of her parents and a guest at Lia's party, also has his eye on. The cup, August tells her, is known as the Rose Kylix, and it's no ordinary cup. It was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REIReisz, Tiffany
Summary: "They called themselves "the lucky ones." They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by their parents and chosen by legendary philanthropist and brain surgeon Dr. Vincent Capello to live in The Dragon, his almost magical beach house on the Oregon Coast. Allison was the youngest of the lucky ones living an idyllic life with her newfound family ... until the night she almost died, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIPak, Greg
Summary: The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel uncover a plot by the Toymaster to use a secret, potentially deadly element in his new video game, the characters created by players manifest in real life. The ultimate fighting game results--and a world-wide network of players must team up to create the most powerful, skilled Super Heroes imaginable with one goal: To kill Batman. When Batman and Superman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2014