Summary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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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 SUNoni, Lynette
Summary: Kiva Meridan is a survivor. Not only did she survive Zalindov Prison, but also the deadly Trial by Ordeal. Now, Kiva's purpose goes beyond survival to vengeance. For the past ten years, her only goal was to reunite with her family and destroy the people responsible for ruining their lives. But now that she has escaped Zalindov, her mission has become more complicated than ever. As Kiva settles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NONMohsin, Moni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOHAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ADEAlmhjell, Tone
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALMSchotter, Roni.
Summary: Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHCarrington, Tori.
Summary: Sofie Metropolis longs for a return to investigating mundane missing pet cases, but her Christmas wish does not come true as she takes a kidnapping case that puts her life at risk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARAshburn, Boni
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the joys and challenges of having a twin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: Mama Duck tries to keep Dawdle Duckling together with his siblings, but he wants to dawdle and dream, preen and play, splash and spin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Buzzeo 2003Morrison, Toni
Summary: In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMorrison, Toni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morrison 2015Morrison, Toni.
Summary: At the heart of Sula is a bond between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel are both black, both smart, and both poor. Through their girlhood years, they share everything. All this changes when Sula gets out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where there hides a fierce resentment at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSala, Toni
Summary: "The once-bucolic Catalonian village of Vidreres has been ravaged by a harsh recession, and now two of its young men have died in a horrible car crash. As the town attends the funeral, a banker named Ernest heads to the tree where they died, trying to make sense of the tragedy. There he meets a brutish trucker, who in between Internet hookups and trips to prostitutes has taken a liking to Iona,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lines Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALAshburn, Boni
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the joys and challenges of having a twin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ASHSchotter, Roni.
Summary: A rhyming celebration of grandmothers, including those who are mischievous ticklers, those who once wore bell bottoms and marched for equal rights, and those who are nearly family and just as loving. Includes a list of names for grandmothers in different languages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchotter, Roni.
Summary: Describes the meaning and traditions of Hanukkah as five children and their family celebrate the holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joy Street Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE SCHBuzzeo, Toni.
Summary: A lion cub wants to emulate his father, the king of the pride.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUZBuzzeo, Toni.
Summary: An overview of the many activities children encounter during a visit to the library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Upstart Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BuzMorrison, Toni
Summary: Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Morrison 2015Morrison, Toni.
Summary: "The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012