Summary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003Summary: "John Doe," a genial and aimless tramp, is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero; John Doe clubs are formed and a spontaneous movement begins. John Doe is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 1998Summary: The year without a Santa Claus: When Santa decides to take Christmas off, two elves go to find children to convince Santa to come back, but first they have to get past the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD YEASummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: When it comes to snobbery, Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') is in a class of her own. Desperate to impress the neighbors and elbow her way into the local aristocracy, every moment of Hyacinth's day is spent going to manic lengths in her quest for perfection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KEEBriskin, Mae
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Daniel 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIPipkin, John
Summary: In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIPArnaldo, Monica
Summary: "Grub is a lonely raccoon. Rumbling in the trash. Looking for food. Seed is, well, a seed! Patiently waiting in the trash. Hoping someone will plant it. When the two finally meet, they realize they might be able to help each other! Grub has just one big question first: What will Seed grow? Could Seed grow Grub's favorite food, mouthwatering cheeseburgers? Seed isn't sure what a cheeseburger is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNLustig, Arnost
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUSRipken, Cal
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Cody Parker moves to Baltimore, Maryland, where as a fat eighth-grader, he has to deal with brutal teasing from a baseball teammate, and his school is beset by a rash of mysterious thefts that threaten to sideline Cody and ruin a goldenseason for his team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIPArnott, Robbie
Summary: Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom - the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches - a far cry from life on Limberlost, the family farm, where his father worries and grieves for Ned's older brothers. They're away fighting in a ruthless and distant war, becoming men on the battlefield, while Ned - too young to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBagnold, Enid
Summary: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BagnoldRijken, Jelleke
Summary: When Bear's grandfather dies, Chicken and Elephant try to comfort their friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIJArnaldo, Monica
Summary: When a kindergarten class arrives for the first day at school, they are greeted only by the words "Mr. S" on the chalkboard and a delicious-looking sandwich, resulting in merry mayhem as the kids wonder if the sandwich is their teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ARNCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNArnott, Robbie
Summary: A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNGrunberg, Arnon
Summary: "Jörgen Hofmeester had it all: a beautiful wife, a nice house with a garden in an upper-class neighborhood in Amsterdam, a respectable job as an editor, two lovely aughters named Ibi and Tirza, and a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. But during the preparation for Tirza's graduation party, we come to know what he has lost"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUHarrold, Jess.
Summary: Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope! This deluxe edition collects all of Marvel's 40th anniversary art retelling the story of A New Hope - as illustrated by some of the industry's most gifted artists. Extras include sketches and pencils, commentary, essays, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 STAAikin, Jim.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1993
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Summary: "A story following an old woman and a young soldier in a war-torn country as they seek a mythical creature called the Rain Heron"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARNRaskin, Ellen
Summary: The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction RaskinRaskin, Ellen.
Summary: The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RASCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RASGiffin, Emily
Summary: A young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. It's two AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city and whether she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GIFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GifGiffin, Emily.
Summary: A chance encounter forces one woman to question her decisions, her marriage, and herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008