Summary: Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FRASummary: Two boys deal with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SQU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SQU
Summary: The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANAnshaw, Carol
Summary: It's the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago's theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and knows it's time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new even as she's haunted by an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSLundin, Britta
Summary: ""What if I played football?" I ask. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I feel stupid. Even suggesting it feels like I've overstepped some kind of invisible line we've all agreed not to discuss. We don't talk about how Mara is different from other girls. We don't talk about how Mara is gay but no one says so. But when I do stuff like this, I worry it gets harder for us all to ignore what's right...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUNBarnette, Abigail.
Summary: Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn't know why he's been set up with Penny Parker. She's unrelentingly positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced-everything Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility of a life he'd given up hoping for . . . with a woman he would never have expected.Contains mature themes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Bretton, Barbara.
Summary: Chloe Hobbs, a sorcerer's daughter and owner of Sticks & String, a knitting shop in Sugar Maple, a Vermont town populated by warlocks, vampires, witches, and other paranormal inhabitants, believes that she has finally found Mr. Right, Luke MacKenzie, the all-too-human cop investigating the town's first homicide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREWhishaw, Ben
Summary: Follows a new current affairs show, The hour, being launched by the BBC in 1956.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOUMarsham, Liz
Summary: Batman fights to keep Gotham safe as the Penguin takes over the zoo, Mr. Freeze teams up with Captain Cold, and the Joker opens a school for clowns.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MARMarsham, Liz
Summary: Explains the back story of Harley Quinn, a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who became obsessed with the Joker and turned into his demented sidekick to battle against Batman and Robin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MARAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSBurdette, Lucy
Summary: "During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City, and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURCole, Babette.
Summary: When a new baby arrives, Truelove the dog must teach his family that there is enough love to go around.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARAnshaw, Carol
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSAnshaw, Carol
Summary: A lesbian therapist in Chicago whose live-in lover disappears tracks her down in Morocco, only to find a different woman, a shock that puts her power of perception in question. If she could misread a lover for so long--a therapist's worst fear--perhaps she hardly knows her own mind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSCole, Babette.
Summary: Not wishing to marry any of her royal suitors, Princess Smartypants devises difficult tasks at which they all fail, until the multitalented Prince Swashbuckle appears.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLBarshaw, Ruth McNally
Summary: Ellie McDoodle is excited about starting a school newspaper and serving as editor, so when her friends and family convince her to run for class president--against her new crush, Jake--she is disappointed to have to give up the job temporarily, but is sooncaught up in making posters and speeches and getting to know Jake better.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: Ellie pet-sits for her neighbor's African grey parrot Alix, about whom she is writing a report, while her family argues over whether to get a cat or a dog, and her little brother accidentally lets Alix out of his cage, all of which is chronicled in Ellie's ever-present sketchbook.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARGreene, Bette
Summary: When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREMidler, Bette
Summary: " How do you get people to appreciate what is right in front of them? In The Tale of the Mandarin Duck, it takes a mysterious, beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious! Bette Midler's distinctive voice joins striking photos of the real duck by Michiko Kakutani and charming black-and-white drawings by Joana Avillez. This book will have readers of all ages coming back to visit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIDWardlaw, Lee
Summary: Parades, beach picnics, and fireworks in the park are some of the ways Americans celebrate the Fourth of July.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARWardlaw, Lee
Summary: A cat arrives at a shelter, arranges to go home with a good family, and settles in with them, all the while letting them know who is boss and, finally, sharing his real name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2012