Summary: A collection of 9 films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growing as above, so below, growing into your future and your past rather than forgetfully forward. These films deny the idea of art for art's sake and do not exist in self-designed aesthetic vacuums. Their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Sarah

Summary: Expected to make an advantageous marriage, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott rebels shortly before her betrothal is announced and flees, throwing herself into charitable work and befriending a group of similarly-minded, independent women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAR

Summary: Thomas, a young German baker, has an affair with Oren, a married Israeli man. After Oren unexpectedly dies in a car crash, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers about his death. Under a fake identity, Thomas enters the life of Anat, his lover's newly widowed wife. There, he begins to work for Anat, baking pastries that bring her cafe to vibrant life. Thomas becomes deeply involved in her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAK

Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEL

Summary: Season One: Based on the best-selling book series from CJ Box, Joe Pickett is the new game warden of a town as beautiful and charming as it is corrupt and dangerous. When a poacher turns up brutally murdered, Joe decides to investigate it to keep his wife and young daughters safe. This sets off a chain of events that uncovers lies and deceit from within the community, putting Joe and his family...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD JOE

Andersen, Sarah (Sarah C.)

Summary: Do you love networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared? Ugh. Please go away. These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Comics Anderson

Summary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VER

Benwell, Sarah

Summary: In Japan, teenaged Abe Sora, who is afflicted with "Lou Gehrig's Disease," finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster/BFYR 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC BEN

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEN

Bernstein, Sarah

Summary: "A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings--more than she cares to remember --from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. Soon after she arrives, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Canada 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bernstein

Blake, Sarah

Summary: The bereaved matriarch of a powerful early-twentieth-century American family makes a fateful decision that reverberates throughout two subsequent generations further impacted by racism, reversed circumstances, and disturbing revelations.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLA

Blake, Sarah

Summary: With the coming of the Great Flood - the mother of all disasters - only one family is spared, left drifing on the endless waters, waiting for them to subside. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine word to build an ark and launch an escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive. Here is the woman torn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLA

Blake, Sarah

Summary: In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women and of two countries torn apart by war.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Ausio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLA

Cannon, Sarah

Summary: A group of gifted middle-school students must band together to save their town, as well as a fantasy world, from monsters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAN

Crossan, Sarah

Summary: Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee. Running away from an abusive home, Allison takes shelter in a shed behind an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty after all; an elderly woman named Marla, who suffers from dementia, lives there. And rather than turn her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CRO

Dass, Sarah

Summary: "She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Dessen, Sarah

Summary: Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DES

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DES

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DES

Dessen, Sarah.

Summary: After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DES

Dessen, Sarah.

Summary: "During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DES

Dessen, Sarah.

Summary: Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DES

Dunant, Sarah.

Summary: "By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy are matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city of Italians. If...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUN