Summary: A young man from the projects and just out of prison is hired by a French millionaire quadriplegic to be his caretaker, beginning an unlikely friendship between the two men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INT
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INTSummary: A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OUTMealey, Cathy Ballou
Summary: When Grizzly Bear shows up at his campfire unexpectedly, Roscoe the raccoon graciously offers him a s'more, and when additional hungry guests arrive, he happily makes s'more after s'more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEYSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRAbdel-Fattah, Randa.
Summary: Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith without losing her identity or sense of style.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ABDAbdel-Fattah, Randa.
Summary: Lara Zany promised to stop being a friendship matchmaker but when Majur, a refugee from Sudan, transfers to her school and clashes with the school bully, Chris Martin, both boys need her special skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABDAbdel-Fattah, Randa.
Summary: Lara Zany is her middle school's official Friendship Matchmaker, but a new student, Emily Wong, has her own ideas on the subject and they vie to match two "hopeless cases" with their perfect best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABDBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELAbel, Jessica.
Summary: Carla Olivares, a young Mexican-American woman, goes to Mexico to "find herself," and moves in which an old fling, but when his circle of Anglo expat friends fail to provide her with the authentic experience she seeks, Carla becomes involved with el Gordo, a drug don who takes her down a dangerous path. Presented in graphic novel form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ABEAbel, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ABEAbeel, Erica
Summary: "Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Review Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Abdel Gawad, Aisha
Summary: "A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan. It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. On the precipice of adulthood, they plan to embark on a summer of teenage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAWAbdel-Fattah, Randa
Summary: "A family has fled their homeland in search of safety in another country, carrying a single suitcase. As their journey unfolds, the oldest child reflects on the special contents of that suitcase: photo albums that evoke eleven of many names for love in Arabic. From sunshine-warm friendship to the love that dissolves all tears; from the love that makes you swoon to the love that leaves you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABDAbel, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEAbel, Kenneth.
Summary: A small town in St. Tammany's Parish, just north of New Orleans, is home to a slave burying ground, so long forgotten that it doesn't appear on any maps. When a group of white teenagers appropriate 'the burying field' for after-hours drinking, racial tensions in the area begin to rise. One night the drunken party turns violent, and the town explodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEKaram, Adel
Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSMellom, Robin.
Summary: As a documentary is filmed at their middle school, roles reverse for worrier Trevor and his lifelong best friend Libby, who has always rescued him from embarrassing situations but is now focused on being "cool" and no longer wants to be his "friend friend."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MELAbdou, Angie
Summary: The lives of two women burdened with secrets : a novel on the complexities of class, race, gender, parenthood, and desire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDHennie, Aksel
Summary: A successful headhunter subsidizes his expensive lifestyle by stealing valuable artwork, but when he meets a former mercenary his two professional worlds collide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEAAbel, James
Summary: "When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Abel 2015Mellom, Robin
Summary: Enthusiastic Hannah Sparkles is overjoyed to start first grade, and learns along the way that sometimes being a good listener is the best way to be a good friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MELSelfon, Brian
Summary: "Shecky Keenan's family is under fire - or at least it feels that way. Bank accounts have closed unexpectedly, a strange car has been parked near the house at odd hours, and Emil Scott, an enigmatic artist and the family's new runner, is missing - along with thedirty money he was carrying. Shecky lives in old Brooklyn with his niece Kerasha and nephew Henry, and while his deepest desire is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SELAbela, Deborah
Summary: Collects three stories about Jasper Zammit and his under-11s soccer team, the Rovers, in which Lil and Jasper work to become friends, Aamir is bullied by another team's player, and the team is assigned a new coach obsessed with winning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Australia 2014