Summary: With a theme song that topped the UK charts, crime stories that weren't shy about sex and drugs and gangsters, a precinct made up largely of Amsterdam canals, and a sulky blond hero at its heart, the British detective series ran for 32 episodes over five series between 1972 and 1992 as British audiences were captivated by their first truly international detective. Reimagined in the Amsterdam of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VANBronstein, Ronald
Summary: The divorced father of two young boys tries to make the most of his time when he gets to see his sons only a couple of weeks a year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim/Zeitgeist Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADKobald, Irena
Summary: A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KOBCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOBSummary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD LordRodale, Maya
Summary: "Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RODRowand, Phyllis
Summary: "A little girl says good night to a seal, a bear, a lion, a train, and so on--giving readers a bit of information about each"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC ROWRinaldi, Ann.
Summary: In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RINRinaldi, Ann.
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RINDev, Sonali
Summary: Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVFry, Sonali
Summary: In simple rhyming text, the Lorax is hungry and decides to make himself a salad using fruit and vegetables he picks from his garden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favorite Ice Princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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Summary: Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVDev, Sonali
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Vibrant Years comes an emotional story of three women navigating ugly truths and safe lies with only love to guide them on a journey of motherhood, friendship, and life. Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, Vandy's public veneer can barely conceal her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVDev, Sonali
Summary: Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: never trust an outsider, never do anything to jeopardize your brother's political aspirations, and never, ever, defy your family. Trisha has been guilty of breaking all the rules, but finally has a chance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dev 2019Royal, Priscilla.
Summary: Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, her infirmarian aide Sister Anne, and Brother Thomas, a troubled monk, head for Wynethorpe Castle to help a dangerously ill child, but their task is complicated by the murder of an important guest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYDev, Sonali
Summary: When a life-saving procedure gives Kimi a new lease on life, she and Rahul, the boy she befriended in her illness, must navigate their undeniable attraction, their lost friendship, complicated family dynamics, and a web of lies to learn the real meaning of courage, loss, and love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DEVDev, Sonali
Summary: Chef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy in order to save her restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn't a complete screw up. When she's asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, what's the worst that could happen? Rico Silva, that's what. He was her first love, and ghosted her at the worst possible time in her life. A FIFA winning soccer star,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVShah, Sonali
Summary: It is time for Diwali, and Ariana is excited to participate in all the holiday traditions--but her three-year-old brother, Rafi, keeps making a mess of everything, and her parents just smile at his antics. Includes information about the holiday and its traditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHADahl, Roald.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHDahl, Roald.
Summary: Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHDahl, Roald.
Summary: Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHDahl, Roald.
Summary: Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own..
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Dahl 1998Dahl, Roald.
Summary: A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAHDahl, Roald.
Summary: Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989