Summary: Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RECSummary: An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODLeyner, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEYSu, Tong
Summary: "In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learned to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then, one day, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labor on a project of terrifying ambition and scale - the building of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSeidler, Tor.
Summary: Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC SeiLeyner, Mark.
Summary: Modern gods and goddesses wreak havoc on an unemployed butcher from New Jersey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEYPon, Cindy
Summary: Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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Summary: After a mysterious key arrives for her, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal that ever loved a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, thepet she buried under the rosebush and together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALMFreeman, Tor.
Summary: Olive has been told a big secret and she tells someone else until it eventually reaches the person who first talked to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRESeidler, Tor.
Summary: Mean Margaret, the tyrannical toddler, turns the lives of everyone around her upside down, from the human Hubble family to a pair of newlywed woodchucks, a squirrel, a snake, a skunk, and a couple of bats, until she discovers that there is more to life than being nasty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEIWon, Brian
Summary: While Turtle seeks his favorite book, each of his friends offers his or her favorite to thank him for sharing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONWon, Brian.
Summary: Elephant wakes up in a grumpy mood, but a present on his doorstep--a hat--cheers him and he sets out to greet his neighbors who all, it seems, need hats of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Summary: "In the spirit of Colleen Hoover and Jojo Moyes's Me Before You, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks the question: is love worth risking everything for?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: A seventeen-year-old star student and gifted athlete hides the painful truths about her private life, including a failing family farm, her mother's growing apocalyptic fears, the institutionalization of her special-needs sister, and her romance with the son of Hmong immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEYSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACGoldberg, Tod
Summary: "With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLGoldberg, Tod.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLPon, Cindy
Summary: "Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONPon, Cindy
Summary: With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PONSummary: The Man with the Yellow Hat and George are going on vacation, but their plane is delayed and there's a long wait ahead. The Amazing Balancing Zucchinis are in town, prompting George to try acrobatics. George and The Man with the Yellow Hat are having a sandcastle contest at the beach and George is determined to make the best castle ever. George meets a turtle and decides to bring his new friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008