Summary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BACSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISouza, Joseph
Summary: "Lucy Abbott returns home to Fawn Grove, Maine, after serving time in Afghanistan, then years spent as a sous chef in New York. She's realized her only hope of moving on from the past involves facing it again. But Fawn Grove, like Lucy herself, has changed and the murder of a Muslim girl brings back difficult memories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SOUSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRILuca, Luciana De
Summary: "A gorgeously illustrated, sparingly written story about the often complicated feelings brought on by anxiousness, perfect for helping young readers identify this complex emotion. The little girl in this picture book would love to dance, sing, and play with her friends, but she is struggling with anxious feelings that get in the way. Sometimes she feels scared and sometimes she feels shy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUCLuciani, Brigitte.
Summary: The reader is asked to guess what Roxanne must leave behind (ball, umbrella, book, turtle, or baby) as she tries various means of transportation to get to the beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2000
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Summary: The reader is asked to guess what Roxanne must leave behind (ball, umbrella, book, turtle, or baby) as she tries various means of transportation to get to the beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J468 LUC SPANISHLuciani, Brigitte.
Summary: Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LUCLozano, Luciano
Summary: When Diana finds herself struggling in school and unable to concentrate, her family enrolls her in dance classes and soon she finds it is easier for her to think if she is moving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOZSaracino, Luciano
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: After mysteriously receiving a copy of an old manuscript, an archeologist sets off around the world to photograph and document the existence of a variety of fairies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCAZinovieff, Sofka
Summary: An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINSummary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEEGoodman, Juliana
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOOGray, Juliana
Summary: "Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archaeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, once belonged to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSoria, Gabriel
Summary: After entering an abandoned mall, readers must pick to play one of two games and their choices will determine if they beat the game or die.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SORKouga, Yun
Summary: The long-awaited continuation of the best-selling series, a masterpiece tale of intrigue and innocence lost. Ritsuka Aoyagi is alone in the world-never fitting in at school and alienated from his own past by a fragmented memory. When his beloved older brother is brutally murdered, Ritsuka is heartbroken but determined to find answers. His only lead is Soubi, a mysterious, handsome college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVSlouka, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLOSegovia, Sofía
Summary: En Linares, al norte del país, con la revolución mexicana como telón de fondo. Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH SEGSlouka, Mark.
Summary: Still reeling from the death of his older brother, a sixteen-year-old track star befriends a street-fighting rebel and together they search for redemption amidst the social changes of 1968.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOSoria, Destiny
Summary: "Happily Ever After" is a total scam, but at least this time the princess is the one controlling the grift--until her true love arrives and threatens to ruin the whole scheme. Intrigue, magic, and wit abound in this Cinderella fairytale reimagining. I'm not who you think I am. My transformation from a poor, orphaned scullery maid into the enchantingly mysterious lady who snagged the heart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SORFinck, Liana
Summary: "Parents will be parents, but the joke is on them in this clever collection of subversive parent-child interactions by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE FINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FINSoule, Charles
Summary: Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge--and wariness--of technology to his new novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world. Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2019