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Abuelas Novela juvenil Air travel Juvenile fiction Bilingual books English-Spanish Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Comedy films Fathers and daughters Drama Grandmothers Juvenile fiction London (England) Fiction Materiales bilingües en español inglés Spanish language materials BilingualSummary: "Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BREThomason, Dustin.
Summary: From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon--perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown. For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Thoman, Lauren
Summary: Is it the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time? Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents. The unsolved crime happened long before Justin was born, but the ripple effects are still felt after thirty-eight years. Justin always knew he wouldn't have much of a future. He just never imagined that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ThomanThomason, Dustin.
Summary: Shortly before December 21, 2012, a CDC expert encounters a confounding medical mystery, and a talented Mayan scholar comes into possession of a priceless codex with terrifying implications for modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGuo, Xiaolu
Summary: "A Chinese woman moves to London to start a new life. She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, and will their love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is a love story told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUOJones, Guy
Summary: When Jess, a girl who is allergic to the sun, sneaks out of her house, she discovers a magical garden made out of ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JONGordon, Gus
Summary: Alice sends a message in a bottle that travels the River Seine and lands with François, who helps her heal from the loss of her beloved grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Invites readers to imagine being the moon as it shines to guide a journey home, glistens beautifully on icy snow, and wishes peace and safety for travelers, friends, and troubled hearts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2019
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Summary: The ghost of a villainous ne'er-do-well is haunting the corridors of Castle Grotteskew, gunning for Stitch Head's hear ... and soul. Certain that his heart once belonged to the vicious rogue, Stitch Head's world is torn apart. Will he surrender to the evil ghost and agree to do his bidding?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stripes 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BASGunaratne, Guy
Summary: Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edges of modern-day London. While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf organize their lives around soccer, girls, and grime, Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful, impassioned, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNPearce, Guy
Summary: After World War II, a former Dutch resistance fighter tries to save the life of a renowned artist and art dealer accused of conspiring with the Nazis because he is convinced of his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASSaville, Guy
Summary: In an alternate world where a victorious Nazi Germany has enslaved the native populations of Africa, former assassin Burton Cole struggles to stop a threat against Britain's surviving colonies from a messianic racist with ties to a brutal plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVVanderhaeghe, Guy
Summary: The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSummary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDLee, Huy Voun
Summary: "Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEEMoreno, Gus
Summary: "A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORLee, Huy Voun.
Summary: Xiao Ming shows the new Chinese characters he has learned to write to his friends during a visit to a farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEESummary: "By the early-1970s, Chang Cheh was already Shaw Brothers' most prolific and well-known director with a plethora of box office hits (including the One-Armed Swordsman franchise) to his name and renowned for discovering the hottest young talents to star in his films. Three of those stars - David Chiang, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng - all feature in Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple, two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHAKay, Guy Gavriel.
Summary: "Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his life-- in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later-- and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAYEndore, S. Guy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Publishing Group 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDGay, Roxane
Summary: Mireille Duval Jameson is a rich and self-assured Haitian woman who is kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men. Held captive by a man who calls himself the Commander, Mireille must endure his torment until her unwilling father pays up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2014
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Summary: Tenzing Norbu ('Ten' for short)--ex-Buddhist monk and soon-to-be ex-cop--takes on his first case as a private investigator in Los Angeles. Growing up in a Tibetan monastery, Ten dreamed of becoming a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. So when he was sent to Los Angeles to teach meditation, he joined the LAPD instead. But as the Buddha says, change is inevitable; and ten years later, everything is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HENGuy, Ginger Foglesong.
Summary: Bilingual text describes a children's party and provides practice counting in English and Spanish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1996