Summary: An autistic thirteen-year-old runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SECSummary: Too-Tall and the gang amuse themselves at Sister's expense by warning her how hard third grade will be and how strict Teacher Jane is. Brother tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Sis not to worry. Mama reminisces about Sister starting kindergarten and reflects on how her daughter's feelings back then were exactly the same. Sure enough, when sister starts grade three she enjoys the new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERRania
Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RanSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONBajaj, Varsha
Summary: "A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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Summary: 12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best friend and places a curse on her family--one that only Lei can lift.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAUSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLHibbert, Talia
Summary: "Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers. Meet the man next door ... After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of Ravenswood seems perfect--until he stumbles upon a vicious web of lies with his new neighbour at its centre. Ruth Kabbah is rude, awkward, and--according to everyone in town--bad news. Thing is, no-one will tell Evan why. Does she perform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nixon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBSamuels, Talia
Summary: "Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect manor, and Ben gets a fake girlfriend for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMSofer, Dalia
Summary: "Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOFBernstein, Galia
Summary: Simon the housecat points out that he may not roar like a lion or run fast like a cheetah, but he has many other things in common with the big cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERHibbert, Talia
Summary: "She wants a fake relationship. He needs something real. If there's one thing Rae can't stand, it's pity. She's forty, frazzled, and fed up - so attending an awards ceremony alone while her ex swans about with his new wife? Not an option. To avoid total humiliation, Rae needs a date of her own. And her young, hot-as-hell new best friend is the perfect candidate... Zach Davis, king of casual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nixon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBTucker, Talia
Summary: When Korean American teens Bobby and Winter reluctantly go on a college visit road trip together, the sworn mortal enemies discover they might actually be a perfect pair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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Summary: A young African American woman who struggles with her past realizes that her worst adversary had larger demons than she did.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANNDutton, Talia
Summary: A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family. When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Surely 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DUTHibbert, Talia
Summary: Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. She's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her family's mansion. She's ready to enjoy a drunken night out, ride a motorcycle, and other adventures. But it's not easy being bad, and Chloe knows just the man to help her complete her list....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBHibbert, Talia
Summary: "Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits - someone who knows the score and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBBajaj, Varsha
Summary: Various woodland creatures make their homes and prepare for their young.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019
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Summary: "A baby elephant's birth is celebrated by its loving herd"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYQualey, Marsha
Summary: It is Gracie's first time at the Pig Jubilee with her synchronized swimming team, the Water Sprites, and she is the youngest pig with a chance to win a gold medal--the trouble is that she keeps getting distracted and missing her solo part, a triple spin dive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018