Summary: Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: The Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARParra, Jessica
Summary: As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARParra, John
Summary: Today Juanito is accompanying his father who is in the landscaping business, and he takes his sketchbook along to draw anything that catches his eye, and gets to help his father plan an entire garden--and then help plant it. Includes an autobiographical note.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC 2022
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Summary: A silent comic that tells the story of a family of foxes whose life is transformed by the arrival of a strange visitor during a harsh winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BORSummary: As Bruno travels the world in search of fame, no one, whether they are celebrities, politicians or even terrorists, will be spared from his signature sense of style and his wickedly off-kilter manner. And, yes, they are all real situations. Prepare yourself for non-stop laughs and outright gasps when you experience the unforgettable antics of Bruno. Bonus material included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRUSummary: In 1915, the Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent, a former prostitute, to spy on the Russians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: Features short fiction by the French naturalist author that is introduced by an essay describing his life, works, and artistic abilities, as well as explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1924
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAMarra, Anthony
Summary: After America's entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father's past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2017
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Summary: In this sequel to Adventures With Waffles, best friends Trille and Lena find their seaside escapades disrupted by a new soccer coach, who puts Lena's goalkeeping dreams on hold, and a new girl on whom Trille has a crush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARSummary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarra, Anthony.
Summary: In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2013
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Summary: A collection of interwoven tales explores themes of family, sacrifice, war, and the redemptive power of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Heritage Press 1978
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hesperus 2002
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Summary: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParry, Ambrose
Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARGustavson, Adam
Summary: "The froggies do not want to sleep and refuse to head to bed; they'd rather play their accordions, go for long drives in the country, or sing opera while shooting themselves out of cannons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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Summary: Jake Hyde yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown in New Mexico for a college on the coast. While his family and friends encourage him to stay, he must deal with his secrets of being gay and some strange new blue markings on his skin giving him a glow when he touches water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SANSanchez, Jasper
Summary: Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021