Summary: Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chappaquiddick 2018Summary: Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOESummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESManceau, Edouard
Summary: At bedtime, a brave child makes a monster disappear by tickling its various parts, such as its teeth so it cannot bite, and the parts transform into new objects that create a non-threatening scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANBedard, Tony.
Summary: Four action-packed stories starring Thor, God of Thunder. First with great power comes...a whole lotta trouble? That's what the Wrecker finds out when he's zapped by a jolt of magical muscle meant for Loki, the god of mischief. Next, villains march across Bifrost Bridge, to challenge the forces of Odin! But wait...these are the Avengers?! Third, see how the God of Thunder came to our world, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BED SPINDLECondé, Maryse
Summary: Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his African childhood. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until, one day, the child Anais comes into his life, forcing him to abandon his solitude. Anais's Haitian mother died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONAlbert, Edoardo
Summary: In 604 AD, Edwin, the deposed king of Northumbria, seeks refuge at the court of King Raedwald of East Anglia. But Raedwald is urged to kill his guest by Aethelfrith, Edwin's usurper. As Edwin walks by the shore, alone and at bay, he is confronted by a mysterious figure--the missionary Paulinus--who prophesies that he will ascend to greater heights than any of his forefathers. Through battles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBBedard, Michael
Summary: When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Book for Young Readers 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEDCondé, Maryse.
Summary: A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
Summary: "--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. --¡Más bien que a vencer o morir! --¿Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? ¿Estás seguro de que preferís morir? --¡No, porque vamos a vencer! --¿Y si no? --¡Si no, nada, porque vamos a vencer, te digo! Corre 1975 y dos jóvenes integrantes de distintas organizaciones...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SACSacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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Summary: A small town's beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime--and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace--smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses--adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELGKeret, Etgar
Summary: Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEROdegard, Elisa Holton
Summary: The story follows a kind young boy as he demonstrates his thoughtfulness, and his theatrical skills, to help many of his culturally-diverse classmates cope with the stresses of their school day. He gently suggests eight different calming strategies to his friends to assist them in returning to mindfulness, so they may continue with a productive day. The flustered children practice the specific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Social Emo 152.4 Odegard 2020Dygard, Thomas J.
Summary: To improve his struggling football team's chances of winning, Coach Gardner brings in a new wide receiver, Jill Winston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1990
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Summary: You're invited to a glorious Fourth of July picnic where you'll learn all about sharing, the good things along with the bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2018
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Summary: When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEagar, Lindsay
Summary: At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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Summary: On the surface, Rory is the underdog--a scholarship kid, teased for her weight, but we soon find out that she will go to any length to secure the lead role in her school's senior musical. She is charming, conniving, and brutally ambitious.You will find yourself rooting for her, while simultaneously dreading what she might do!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC EAGEagar, Lindsay
Summary: "Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC EAGAgard, John
Summary: "With one last hug, Windrush child says goodbye to his grandmother and the shores of his Caribbean home before embarking on an adventure across the ocean--under a sky full of promise--to an unknown horizon. With sensitivity and tender lyricism, world-renowned and multi-award-winning poet John Agard narrates the epic story of a child's voyage to England aboard Empire Windrush"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGAElgar, Emily
Summary: "When young, beautiful Cassie Jensen arrives at the intensive care ward of St. Catherine's hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while out walking her dog, chief nurse Alice Marlowe thinks she looks familiar. She starts obsessively digging deeper into Cassie's relationships, only to discover a secret that her patient has been keeping from everyone, including her devoted husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELGLedyard, Stephanie Parsley
Summary: "A family learns what home really means when they leave their beloved house and move to another"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books, Holiday House 2019