Summary: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRESummary: Discover hope and forgiveness in a small-town diner! With Christmas on the way, homeless single mother Rose and her young daughter, Katy, are befriended by a feisty waitress, a big-hearted short-order cook, and a storefront Santa. When Rose has a "chance" encounter with a wealthy art collector, will it change the path of her small family?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Multimedia Group 2018
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Juv LeSmath, Jerry
Summary: PICTURE STORYBOOKS. This best-selling book based on the popular children's song has driven its way into the hearts of many since its 1991 release. With wheels that go round, doors that open and shut, wipers that swish, and people that go bumpety-bump, this board book version of "Wheels on the Bus" is perfect for little hands and can be enjoyed by the youngest of readers. Ages 0+
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Smath 2016Smyth, Ciara
Summary: A teen girl, Aideen, makes a journey from self-protectively tough to ready and willing to face her main problem: her single mother's alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMYSmath, Jerry.
Summary: Edna the alligator has quite an adventure when she goes to buy a hat to wear while fishing with her husband Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgewater Books 1993
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket SMAAmish
Summary: A tale inspired by Hindu mythology is set in a powerful empire in ancient Meluha, where a hero foretold in legend rises to save his people from the threats of a dying river and Chandravanshis terrorism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmish.
Summary: Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westland 2013
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Summary: The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path of evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westland
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Summary: If happy endings were real, Saoirse's mother would still be able to remember her name and not be in a care home with early onset dementia. And if she inherits the condition, Saoirse doesn't see the point in igniting any romantic sparks when she's bound to burn out. Until Saoirse meets Ruby, a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. Ruby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Cracow, 1893. Zofia Turbotyńska--professor's wife and socialite--is bored at home, with little to do but plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crimes. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SzymiczkowaStith, Shaunna
Summary: Based on actual events, this picture book tells the story of the first Earth Day through the eyes of a young girl named Sam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STISmit, Audrey
Summary: "In a village where the flowers grow as big as trees, lives a girl named Lily Huckleberry. As a member of the Worldwide Adventure Society, Lily has a magic globe that takes her on whimsical adventures around the world. In this first book of the series, Lily goes to Scandinavia for a Midsummer party, where she finds herself ker-splat in the middle of a strawberry mystery. As Lily travels around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: This Little Street 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMISmit, Audrey
Summary: Lily's magic globe takes her to Japan for Golden Week. Her friends ask her to help find the pieces of a broken dragon statue and undo a curse that has fallen over Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: This Little Street 2019
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Summary: Standing trial for extortion in 1917, beautiful con artist May Dugas recounts her version of the events that led to her arrest, from her reluctant residence in a famous Chicago bordello and her insinuation into high society to her world travels as a seductress and blackmailer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIALucier, Makiia
Summary: When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCMakiya, Kanan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKMatula, Christina
Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATLucier, Makiia
Summary: When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCLucier, Makiia
Summary: Lord Cassia is taken prisoner, while a plague sweeps over the land. Three years later, he wants only to return to his home. Meanwhile, his home has changed, and an assassin has targeted the queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCSummary: Poppy and Branch discover that they are but one of six different Trolls tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb, aided by her father King Thrash, wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Trolls 2020Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrOwara, Sumito
Summary: "Midori loves to design worlds. Tsubame loves to animate. Sayaka loves to make money! And at Shibahama High, they call them Eizouken--a three-girl club determined to produce their own spectacular science fiction anime! But with no budget from their school and a leaky warehouse for a studio, Eizouken is going to have to work hard and use their imagination ... the one thing they've got plenty of!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEEArndt, Skyla
Summary: "Wil Greene's mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed-they claim she skipped town and you can't find a woman who wants to disappear. But she knows her mom wouldn't just leave ... and she knows the family of her former best friend, Elwood Clarke, has something to do with it. Elwood has been counting down the days until his 18th birthday-in dread. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023