Summary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD
Summary: Sinister Dr. Mabuse maintains his wealth through counterfeiting, manipulating the stock exchange and bending weaker minds to his will. In part 1, Mabuse builds his empire and casually ruins Count Told while entrancing the thrill-seeking Countess. In part 2, Mabuse turns from criminal to villain, murdering the Count and kidnapping the Countess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DREberhart, Carolyn.
Summary: From a beloved author of popular Jane Austen sequels come a heart-warming tale of Elizabeth and Darcy at Christmas, sure to delight both Jane Austen and Regency romance fans... Carolyn Eberhart's novella crosses Jane Austen with Charles Dickens! Mr. Darcy's Christmas Carol finds Darcy alone, following Elizabeth's rejection of his offer of marriage. Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2012
View online at OverDrive
Waechter, Philip
Summary: After his parents plan a trip to the sea, Jacob flies there himself, making acquaintances along the way, but when his bird friends are in danger, Jacob and his flock rescue them and outwit the birdcatcher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Kids Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAEBernhard, Susan
Summary: "When the spring thaw of a frozen Minnesota lake brings about shocking revelations that lead to violence, 15-year-old Wes Ballot embarks on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother's death and a future he must claim for himself."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P BEREverhart, Donna
Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVEEverhart, Donna
Summary: 1950s, North Carolina. Martha 'Sonny' Creech, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their cotton farm, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin. When Frank Fowler, their rich, reclusive neighbor, offers to help finance that year's cotton crop, Sonny is sure the man has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVEEverhart, Donna
Summary: It takes courage to save yourself...In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together.Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVEEverhart, Donna
Summary: For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci--a mute, musically gifted savant--is constantly watched over and protected, Wallis Ann is as practical and sturdy as her name. When the Tuckasegee River bursts its banks, forcing them to flee in the middle of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Everhart 2018Everhart, Donna
Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVEEverhart, Donna
Summary: A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EverhartEberhardt, Michael C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBESchlink, Bernhard.
Summary: A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she was involved in the Holocaust. She refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The young law student gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Schlink 1999Eberhart, Mignon Good
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEBernhard, Emilia
Summary: "The only thing chillier than a Parisian winter is cold-blooded murder. When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? But when she overhears a mourner at his funeral describing the circumstances of his death, something sounds even stranger: a bottle of rosé was on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bernhard 2018Bernhard, Thomas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERSchlink, Bernhard
Summary: "Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchlink, Bernhard.
Summary: A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she is a survivor of the Holocaust.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: After twelve years in prison, a convicted sex offender struggles to regain the life he lost, while grappling with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOO
Schlink, Bernhard
Summary: "A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover. Here, the internationally acclaimed author delivers what his fans have been waiting for since The Reader--a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. A brilliant and naïve young lawyer's life is changed forever when a painter and his subject--a breathtakingly beautiful woman--appear at his office in Frankfurt....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchlink, Bernhard.
Summary: A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchlink, Bernhard.
Summary: From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
View online at OverDrive
Aichner, Bernhard
Summary: A grieving widow and professional mortician discovers there was more to the hit-and-run accident that took her husband's life than she originally thought, and vows to find out and get revenge on those responsible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AICWachtel, Shirley Russak
Summary: "1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect, Jacob's hopes for the future are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2023