Summary: 1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RETSummary: Ip Man's life remains unchanged after his wife's death, but he and his son are slowly drifting apart. To seek a better future for his son, Ip Man decides to travel to the U.S. only to find a stable, peaceful life abroad is only skin deep. Underneath lies deep-rooted racial discrimination that is far worse than he has expected. Ip Man re-examines his position and ponders on the reason he took up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN IPSchott, Ben
Summary: Jeeves and Wooster embark on another elegantly uproarious escapade as spies in service to the British crown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMoore, Scotto
Summary: "In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSlott, Dan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Publishing 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SPISchott, Ben
Summary: As a member of the Junior Ganymede Club--an association of butlers and valets that is in reality an arm of the British intelligence service--Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy, with the help of his hapless employer, Bertie Wooster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTMoore, Scotto
Summary: "Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person. But when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOUnderhill, Scout
Summary: "Four adorable dogs are tail-waggingly excited to play their favorite role-playing game in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill. They've picked their characters and favorite dice, and are ready to set off on the adventure their game master Magnus has created for them. Pickles, a rough and tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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Summary: "A captivating and original story of two sisters caught in a moment of transformation, set against the vivid backdrop of modern India. Escaping her failing marriage, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry from the United States to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an inheritance she could not have expected-a property on the beaches of Madras-and discovers a sister she never knew...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSStott, Apryl
Summary: Coco sets out to help her new friend, Bear, show other animals he is not mean just because he is big, and soon they all have learned something about kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Paris, 1815. Napoleon has surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in the city to study anatomy, only to realize that his letters of introduction and his gift of precious coral specimens - on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends - have been stolen by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STOSummary: In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat. Duchess has three little kittens. A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARICopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ARIFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Contents: The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalrymple goes wrong -- The four fists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITSummary: A crossover anthology depicts Kung Fu Master Shang-Chi's high-action partnerships with other fan-favorite Marvel superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARDyckman, Ame.
Summary: When her parents find a baby wolf on their doorstep and decide to raise him as their own, Dot is certain he will eat them all up until a surprising encounter with a bear brings them closer together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WOLSummary: Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FLYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlyHamilton, Tisha.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIShort, Luke
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W SHOSotto, Samantha.
Summary: Three years after her husband Max's death, Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man who Paolo says is his grandfather though he never seems to age, is Max. "Her" Max. And he is alive and well. As outrageous as Paolo's claims seem--how could her husband be alive?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOTStott, Apryl
Summary: When Coco, a young girl, loses her brave during dress rehearsal for their special dance at the summer festival, she and Bear decide to quit the show, but when Bear gets stuck on a wobbly bridge, Coco bravely rescues him, so perhaps she has enough brave to join Bear onstage after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOSummary: Two 1980s' feature films about Eddie Wilson, whose car took a dive off a Jersey bridge with the troubled rock idol at the wheel. His body was never found.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDDSloat, Teri.
Summary: Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing 2000