Summary: He's an antisocial misogynist and proud of it. He is Nero Wolfe and the setting is Rome,1959. Due to small disagreements with the Feds, America's best and brightest detective has moved to Italy with his faithful assistant, Archie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NERSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMFierro, Julia.
Summary: "One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEPiñeiro, Victor
Summary: When Finistere's stern acting principal, Ms. Vlad, invites Mr. Dragon to be her vice-principal, the students immediately adore him, but unbeknownst to them, he is nefariously planning to take over the world, and it is up to Javi to stop him before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PINMulroney, Dermont
Summary: After a teenager becomes the target of an evil supernatural entity, Elise Rainier agrees to help her get rid of the demon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INSDella Pietra, Cheryl
Summary: Inspired by her time as Hunter S. Thompson's assistant, Della Pietra's novel tells the story of Alley Russo, a recent college grad desperately trying to make it in the grueling world of New York publishing. Like so many who have come before her, she has no connections and has settled for an unpaid magazine internship while slinging drinks on Bleecker Street just to make ends meet. That's when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEFierro, Julia
Summary: "It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEPastro, Joana
Summary: In the city of Olinda, Brazil, Clara is looking forward to the Carnaval street parade, with the colorful, fantastic costumes that her great-grandmother makes for the family--but her Bisa is too old to follow the parade, so Clara decides to bring the parade to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGPiedra, Tony
Summary: Eliot's grandfather, El Capitán, has retired from the sea, and after listening to his grandfather's stories, Eliot is ready for an adventure--so they set out together to find one they can share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIEPetry, Ann
Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPinto, Sara.
Summary: Presents pairs of related items, such as an apple and an orange or a bicycle and a motorcycle, and asks why they are similar, while offering unexpected answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PinPitre, Michael.
Summary: "It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITSummary: Irena is a mysterious Ukrainian woman with a secret who works her way into the lives of an Italian, affluent young family. She stops at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter. But deep cracks underneath Irena's dedication soon become apparent as her horrific past and chilling obsession are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNKSummary: "A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEAAspe, Pieter
Summary: A bizarre burglary involving jewels being dissolved in super-strong acid and a note with a square on it left behind sends Inspector Van In on a strange investigation involving Latin phrases, kidnapping, and stolen, priceless art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASPCitro, Asia
Summary: An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust!--from book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Citro 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITAnthony, Piers.
Summary: The Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land. The forget-spell that had covered the Gap was breaking up into small forget-whorls that wandered about, giving amnesia to all they touched. There was trouble on Xanth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTAnthony, Piers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTCitro, Asia
Summary: A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras, use science experiments to help a dragon with a problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CITPinto, Freida
Summary: A young Indian woman falls for a British businessman who has come to India to work for her father's business, but must overcome the pressure of society in order to make their relationship work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRIPirro, Jeanine.
Summary: While investigating a series of brutal crimes against women and children in 1978 New York, Assistant District Attorney Dani Fox takes on the challenging case of a businessman who has been secretly molesting his young daughter for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIRPietroni, Anna Lawrence.
Summary: Cradle Cross in 1933 is a town in the heart of Black Country, England, still reeling from the Great War and dominated by a button factory in terminal decline. Into this exotically grim environment arrives Isa Fly, a white-haired young woman from the coast. The mysterious and magnetic Isa exerts a romantic pull on everyone she meets. As the reasons for Isa's sudden appearance become less clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEPrieto González, José Manuel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000