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Basketball players Juvenile fiction Best friends Juvenile fiction Families Families Juvenile fiction Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Friendship Mexican Americans Juvenile fiction Middle school students Juvenile fiction Schools Fiction Women Sexual behavior California Los Angeles DramaSummary: Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 47 RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FORSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALSummary: An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTSummary: Intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson, is tasked by the army to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War, it's crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLOVarious
Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOCSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A group of seemingly "perfect" high-school buddies lead double lives. They fly high in a world of petty crime and material excess - a free-wheeling lifestyle that soon takes a downward spiral, leading to an unexpected, violent end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BETCisneros, Ernesto
Summary: Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CISCopies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CISCisneros, Ernesto
Summary: While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CISBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BURSummary: In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PAPCisneros, Ernesto
Summary: Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won't change things at home, not without each other's help. This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Follows the lives of the Macahans, a family living in the Old West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOWCass, Kiera
Summary: In "The Prince," Maxon reveals there was another girl in his life before America; and in "The Guard," America falls for Aspen Leger, a Six who has risen in the ranks to become a member of the royal guard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Classics 1997
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HEMHill, Ernest
Summary: Tyrone Stokes was imprisoned for shooting a man in a convenience store. His wife, Pauline, saw her chance to end their marriage and raise their son, Marcus, on her own. Now Tyrone has returned to Brownsville, Louisiana, to discover that Marcus needs help. Marcus has been convicted of the rape and murder of a young white girl.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILArness, James
Summary: Follows the adventures of Marshall Matt Dillon as he brings law and order to Dodge City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNLustig, Arnost
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUSRigler, Laurie Viera.
Summary: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, inexplicably awakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes--who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIGErnst, Kathleen
Summary: Continues the story of Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNErnst, Kathleen
Summary: Chloe Ellefson, starting fresh as curator of Old World Wisconsin, finds herself in the middle of a mystery when a woman looking for a priceless eighteenth-century Norwegian ale bowl dies in a mysterious car crash and Chloe beings to realize that someone is trying to erase all traces of the bowl's existence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERNLee, Honest
Summary: After being struck by purple lightning, Ms. Linda and her students gain superpowers and in an effort to save the world, they nearly destroy it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018