Summary: A group of old friends, in true British fashion and while the rest of the world faces impending doom, reunite to celebrate Christmas in the comfort of an idyllic country home. Burdened with the inconvenience of mankind's imminent destruction, they adopt a stiff upper lip, crack open another bottle of prosecco and continue with their festivities. But no amount of stoicism can replace the courage...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SILSummary: Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KNIBearden, Romare
Summary: When a company of black Union soldiers tells L'il Dan that he is no longer a slave, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BEATruhen, Aidan
Summary: "In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. All is good in the life of Jack Price. His drug operation is the Amazon of cocaine trafficking, and no one can breach his complex security system. But then: his downstairs neighbor is professionally executed....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRURoasek, Rachel
Summary: Seventeen-year-old overachiever Sam attemtps to encourage a love connection between her athletic ex-boyfriend Christian and her academic rival Ros while trying not to fall for Ros herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROATrundle, Boo
Summary: "This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink. Katherine, a lost creative soul and the mother of two lovely teenagers with her strapping provider of a husband, has struggled into her forties with compulsive self-harm and intermittent fears of sexual intercourse. This brisk, mesmerizing version of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUGay, Roxane
Summary: Mireille Duval Jameson is a rich and self-assured Haitian woman who is kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men. Held captive by a man who calls himself the Commander, Mireille must endure his torment until her unwilling father pays up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2014
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Summary: Donald Duck has a secret identity in this collection of short comics stories - the infamous super-anti-hero, Duck Avenger!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISWilson-Trudeau, Marty
Summary: "Phoenix loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance--ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Sometimes Phoenix gets picked on and he struggles with feeling different, but his mom and brother are proud of him. With their help, Phoenix learns about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people in Anishinaabe culture and just how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILHarris, Trudy.
Summary: Rhyming text expands on the nursery rhyme, "Hickory Dickory Dock," as a cat chases the mouse up the clock, followed by other animals, until midnight arrives and the tired creatures fall asleep. Includes facts about clocks and basic information about telling time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HARSummary: Presents stories about three different Amish couples, including "Their Second Chance," where Amish nanny Hannah Eicher falls for English fireman Rob Prince, but does not believe their love can overcome her family's objections.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAGay, Roxane
Summary: "Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYGay, Roxane
Summary: "Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC GAYLudwig, Trudy.
Summary: When Jack makes friends with Charlie, a trouble-maker, he learns the difference between an insincere apology and showing that you are truly sorry. Includes information for parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LUDPoranek, A. B.
Summary: When attempting to rid herself of magic, seventeen-year-old Liska is captured by the demon warden of the spirit-wood who offers her one year of servitude in exchange for any wish, but she soon discovers the sinister truth at the heart of their deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PORTrueit, Trudi
Summary: Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers. Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: "The first few years of Brian Reyes' life were unremarkable--nothing weird about this kid, no sir. Then, one day, a bump appeared on his head, and it grew... and grew... and grew until it was a full-blown, sparkling, singing unicorn horn. That's absolutely the last thing a shy kid like Brian wants, but destiny waits for no unicorn boy. Luckily, Brian has his reassuring pal Avery to keep him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2024
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Summary: Told in rhyming text, dogs have a wonderful day at the dog park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRIOsman, Trudy.
Summary: A boy experiences the anger and sorrow involved in seeing his parents get divorced, but he comes to realize that they both still love him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ideals Children's Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC OSMHarris, Trudy.
Summary: The wolf from "The Three Little Pigs" shows up at a party attended by lots of piggies, but his plans for dinner are disrupted by the pigs from "This Little Piggy Went to Market."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HarriLudwig, Trudy.
Summary: Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LUDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUDLudwig, Trudy.
Summary: With help from his father, older brother, and teacher, D.J. learns how to handle a classmate who claims that his mean-spirited "teasing" is just a joke.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Social Emo Ludwig 2006Summary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ONECanavan, Trudi
Summary: Five years have passed since the Rebels confronted the Raen. Five years, in which the boy Rielle rescued, Qall, has safely grown up among the Travellers. Five years, in which Tyen has made a new home for himself, hidden from those who call him a traitor and the Spy.Five years of chaos in the world, barely contained by Baluka and the Restorers. Worlds are at war, some overrun by machines, some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017