Summary: Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SWISummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Tucker is an engineer and showman who has a vision of the car of the future. Against formidable odds he raises the money and builds a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three auto manufacturers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUCHarkin, Jo
Summary: "What if you once had a painful memory removed? And what if you were offered the chance to get it back? Tell Me an Ending follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever. Finn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. Mei, a troubled grad school drop-out in Kuala...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSemple, Maria.
Summary: Initiating small changes that she hopes will reverse negative patterns in her life, Eleanor Flood is derailed by her family members' unethical practices before an encounter with a former colleague triggers dramas that reveal a buried secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: To her Microsoft-guru husband, Bernadette is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she's a best friend and, simply, Mom. Bee has aced her report card and claimed her reward: a family trip to Antarctica. For Bernadette, who has become increasingly agoraphobic,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEMParkin, Gaile.
Summary: A novel about the real meaning of reconciliation - about how, in the aftermath of tragedy, life goes on and people still manage to find reasons to celebrate. Angel's kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda, where lives are transformed and connections are made, changing her life and the lives of all around her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARLarkin, Shabazz
Summary: "A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Readers to Eaters 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LARSiple, Joe
Summary: "With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2023
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Summary: Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking, but instead of feeling content, he feels empty. When he meets Alexandra Lopez, a ten-year-old America-loving girl facing deportation, he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, to give her five wishes before she must leave. They set out to check off as many wishes as possible, but when Jason's transplanted heart...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SipleLarkin, Patrick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARSemple, Maria
Summary: Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action--life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Semple 2016Larkin, Allie
Summary: Aspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful, faithful rescue dog, Barkimedes. While she figures out what to do next, she heads back to Florida to live with her grandmother, Nan. But Katie quickly learns there's a lot she doesn't know about Nan--like the fact that in her youth Nan was a mermaid performer in a roadside attraction show, swimming...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Larkin 2019Laskin, David
Summary: "A striking coming-of-age novel set in New York City at the beginning of 1970 as a young man escapes his Long Island suburb to Manhattan where he becomes swept up in the radical causes of the era. As the 1960s turn into 1970 in the Long Island suburb of Great Neck, seventeen-year old Sam Stein is falling in love for the first time. Kim is a young radical in a place where bourgeois white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASLarkin, Allie
Summary: "Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving inan unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARLarkin, Patrick.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance Audiobook 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARLarkin, Patrick.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARSemple, Maria.
Summary: Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMSemple, Maria.
Summary: When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SEMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Semple 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P SEMLakin, Patricia
Summary: Carl the car loves to race at the park with his friends, but after following a sign that says "Park here," they suddenly find themselves in the wrong place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LAKLakin, Rita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LAKLakin, Pat.
Summary: A deaf boy and his father share a special time as they watch the sun rise at the beach.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAKLakin, Patricia
Summary: Four crocodile friends enjoy a snowy day of sledding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2002