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Summary: Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOO

Summary: The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADD

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Addams 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADD

Summary: A misplaced sausage and his savory friends embark on an existential adventure through the aisles of a massive supermarket in this raunchy animated comedy. As the store's annual 4th of July sale draws near, the perishable pals must return to their rightful places on the shelves before the customers come flooding in to fill their carts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAU

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: In an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a complicated and compromised chief of police is forced to decide how far he's willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder. A harrowing journey into the lives of a small town with big secrets, where people are driven by loyalty, love, and desperation, and bad choices come far too easy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AME

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV AME

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AME

Summary: Leon Bronstein is a young man who has made the discovery that his birth name is the same as that of Leon Trotsky, the celebrated Russian revolutionary and socialist theorist. This coincidence leads Leon to believe that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky and it is his destiny to follow his path as closely as possible, which is a bit difficult when you have rich parents and attend an upscale...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRO

Martel, Yann.

Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listeners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Martel

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAR

Martel, Yann.

Summary: In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Summary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAI

Damezin, Yann

Summary: "It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qays...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAM

Martel, Yann

Summary: Patel Pi is a young man living in India, his father is the owner and manager of the zoo in the city but decided to emigrate to Canada and seek a better life through the sale of animals. After complex procedures, the family begins a journey Patel that is cut short by tragedy: a terrible storm wrecks the ship they are traveling on. Pi will have to use his talents to survive while he also deals...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Destino,  2003

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH MAR

Martel, Yann.

Summary: A collection of four short works includes the title novella and "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Martel, Yann.

Summary: When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey and the epic journey they undertake together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010

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Martel, Yann.

Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Summary: A three-part British police drama tells the true story of scientist Alec Jeffrey's discovery of DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s and its introductory use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in catching a double murderer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COD

Martel, Yann.

Summary: Like "Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil" uses animals to discuss the human condition, in this case, to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys, a novelist and a taxidermist, who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAR

Martel, Yann.

Summary: Like "Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil" uses animals to discuss the human condition, in this case, to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys, a novelist and a taxidermist, who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Martel, Yann.

Summary: The High Mountains of Portugal—part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable—offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century—and through the human soul.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Martel 2016

Martel, Yann.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC Martel

Martel, Yann.

Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003

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Summary: On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA SUL

Summary: "In Season 2, when a notorious serial killer and his mysterious accomplice escape the police, Detective William Wisting races to stop the killers before more lives are lost. In Season 3, FBI agent Maggie Griffin returns to assist Wisting with the investigation of the brutal murder of an asylum seeker"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIS

Zann, Tara

Summary: "A shy girl teaches a wild boy everything about modern living so he can impress Gam Gam at a family dinner"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ZAN

Napolitano, Ann

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him, so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAP

Vann, David.

Summary: The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund—old money that his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012

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