Summary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WITRania
Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RanSummary: Will spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates, unborn souls, arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NINSummary: A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Searchlight Pictures 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMPSummary: It's been more than ten years since our last appointment at Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. The ladies bring their own flavor, drama and gossip to the shop challenging the fellas at every turn. Despite the good times and camaraderie within the shop,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANStojic, Manya.
Summary: The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOStojic, Manya.
Summary: As snow approaches and begins to fall, Moose, Bear, Fox, and other forest creatures prepare for winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANStrieber, Whitley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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Summary: A Biography of a Chance Miracle explores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracy-ridden and nationalistic Western Ukrainian city of San Francisco. Lena is a misfit from early childhood due to her unwillingness to scorn everything Russian, her propensity for befriending forlorn creatures, her aversion to the status quo, and her fear of living a stupid and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cadmus Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIMYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUEHuff, Tanya.
Summary: When former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds out why space pirates needed salvage operator Craig Ryder, she calls in the Marines to get him back--and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFStrecker, Susan.
Summary: "One October night, when Jensen Reilly is sixteen, she and her high school sweetheart, Ryder, are involved in a horrible accident that kills her brother, Will. Ever since then Jensen has been running--from her past, from the Connecticut shoreline home she loved, to boarding school and then out west, where she dropped out of college to elope with her professor, a charismatic artist who takes her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRHuff, Tanya
Summary: When Auntie Catherine warns the Gale family of an approaching asteroid, Charlotte "Charlie" Gale turns to her supernaturally complicated family for help and soon discovers that the asteroid is the least of her problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: The military adventure continues in this brand new entry in Tanya Huff's bestselling Confederation series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Charlotte, a Wild Power, partners with a family of Selkies to fight offshore oil drilling while her formidable Aunt Catherine is hired by the oil company to steal the Selkies' sealskins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFAldrich, Bess Streeter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aeonian Press 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDAldrich, Bess Streeter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1985