Summary: 1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MARKantorovitz, Sylvie.
Summary: Young Sosha buys a shaggy old teddy bear at a yard sale and brings him home for some special care and love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WicksPerry, Sylvie
Summary: Claudia Morgan is a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is good for Henry. But there's something a bit off about the school. When Henry brings home stories of ceremonies in the woods and odd rules, Claudia's instincts tell her that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCathrall, Sylvie
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A mischievous little rabbit from a magician's hat sets his eye on a bunch of fresh carrots on the magician's kitchen counter, but before he can enjoy them he must get past a grumpy dog that is intent on keeping the clever little rabbit away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DESSummary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIRSummary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESDesrosiers, Sylvie
Summary: A clever magician's rabbit named Hocus Pocus is up against a fast train and his meddlesome nemesis Dog in his quest to reunite a stuffed toy with its young owner.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DESMisslin, Sylvie
Summary: "Princesses Rose and Josephine are ready for adventure. But only two paths lead them to a sweet happy ending"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "Watch out on your next walk through the forest, because you just might encounter a real rapscallion in the form of a tiny bird! In this hilarious tale, Chickadee recounts how he went from a normal bird 'childhood' to a daring life of crime. One cold, snowy morning, shivering and hungry, he discovers a vault of gold -- and steals from it! His natural colouring resembling a mask helps him blend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILSummary: An otherworldly tale of a glowing green orb from outer space that spreads destruction throughout the galaxy. Only when it encounters its one true enemy will goodness prevail in the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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Summary: "Anaïs Phalèse plays softball, panics about her physics exams, and lives on what the rest of the interdimensional realities dismiss as Boring World . . . better known to us as "Earth." That is, of course, until one fateful trip to the organic food market when Anaïs gets shot in the arm while trying to help a bizarre and beautiful stranger. This is the fabulous Fauna Lokjom, Licorice Princess of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2019
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Summary: "In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUSilvis, Randall
Summary: What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILWyllie, Stephen.
Summary: Three ghostly apparitions search for a place to haunt before settling in the "Ghost Train" ride at an amusement park. Includes holograms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1992
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E WylSummary: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR SUSNeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUReynard, Sylvain.
Summary: Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REYSummary: Ron's Gone Wrong is a computer-animated film set in a world where it's the norm to have B-Bots, digitally connected robot companions. Barney is a shy middle-schooler who is the last one in his city to finally get Ron, his B-Bot. Unfortunately, his "Best Friend Out of the Box" becomes a major pain, malfunctioning on a regular basis. Not knowing what else to do, Barney sets out to teach Ron about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "At four hundred pounds, Billy Brennan can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food's colors, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy's beloved son Michael takes his own life. Billy determines to make a difference in Michael's memory...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROHJames, Syrie.
Summary: Discovering a letter written by Jane Austen inside of an old book, Samantha investigates the letter's suggestions about a possible undiscovered manuscript and searches the historical home of handsome Anthony Whitaker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCokal, Susann
Summary: Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: When a field mouse discovers that his friend is sick in bed, he is determined to make her feel better.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYLBissell, Sallie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001