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Baby-sitters club graphic novels 12 Focus Features spotlight series Zom-B 4 Zom-B 5Summary: A group of four friends, all with different life goals, struggle to survive on one person's salary. After going into business together as thugs and assassins they find fame and fortune and at the same time strive to maintain their friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GANSummary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MISSummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: Editors Harris and Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations frightening, funny, and touching -- for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DEAShah, Tahir.
Summary: Here, travel writer Shah sets out on a bold new journey across Morocco. As he wends his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakesh, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, Tahir collects a dazzling treasury of traditional stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Mukherjee, Bharati.
Summary: Taken under the wing of an expat teacher for her ambition and talent, Anjali Bose hopes to escape unfavorable prospects and falls in with a crowd of young people in Bangalore, where she endeavors to confront her past and reinvent herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKShah, Sonali
Summary: It is time for Diwali, and Ariana is excited to participate in all the holiday traditions--but her three-year-old brother, Rafi, keeps making a mess of everything, and her parents just smile at his antics. Includes information about the holiday and its traditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAChen, Shan Shan
Summary: On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEChau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BABCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHAShah, Neel
Summary: Madeline and Elliot's relationship unfolds through a series of thrilling, confounding, and funny exchanges with each other, and, of course, with their best friends and dubious confidants (Emily and David). The result is a brand-new kind of modern romantic comedy, in format, in content, and even in creation--the authors exchanged e-mails in real time, blind to each other's side conversations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHARāwī, Shahd
Summary: "Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAWShan, Darren.
Summary: "Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHAShan, Darren.
Summary: "Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHAShahi, Arya
Summary: "Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him and to show everyone that he truly belongs in Tucson, Arizona, the only home he's ever known. Neither the school play's Shakespearean English nor his parents' Farsi seems up to the task, and it's only when Omid delves into the rhymes and rhythms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: BellaRosaBooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PAPTuiasoa, Shar
Summary: "Punky loves to do a lot of things--except meeting new friends. She doesn't feel brave enough. So when her grandmother asks her to go out and grab butter for her famous banana bread, Punky hesitates. But with the help of her grandmother's magical sunglasses, and with a lot of aloha in her heart, Punky sets off on a BIG adventure for the very first time"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TUINewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: As Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine. But just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual. Each coping in their own way, Eyal and Vicky both attempt to regain a sense of control over their future, as they struggle to discover that there are still things in life worth living for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONESummary: "Rizwan, an Indian man with a unique way of looking at the world, moves to San Francisco and meets a vivacious single mother named Mandira. They form a special bond and fall in love against all odds, but fate and tragedy conspire to tear them apart. That's when Rizwan embarks on a remarkable journey across America to win back the love of his life"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYYoungblood, Shay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUBhadra, Sangeeta
Summary: "This is the house where Jill plays. This is the oak that holds the house where Jill plays. This is the nut that fell from the oak that holds the house where Jill plays ... So begins Sangeeta Bhadra's The Nut that Fell from the Tree, a cumulative tale that pays homage to "The House that Jack Built," and a playful account of how difficult it is for an acorn to grow up into an oak! The story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BHANewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates. One he places little effort at, but he has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2009