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Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALSummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPIsrael, Steve
Summary: "When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISRHarmony, Cynthia
Summary: A heartwarming tale of a girl waiting for her beloved Papá to return when the monarchs fly south to their home in Mexico. Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Derting, Kimberly
Summary: The country fair is only a month away when Vincent Van Goat eats all of Poppy's potentially prize winning cucumbers, and because there is not enough time to grow more, Poppy has to come up with a vegetable that will grow quickly (and can be protected from a greedy goat). Includes discussion questions, and tips for growing vegetables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DERBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: "Spunky sixth-grader Zoe Sparks has discovered a unique way to get the laptop of her dreams--to win it! If Zoe can sell more tubs of cookie dough than anyone in her school, the laptop is hers. It's the first step to becoming a prize-winning journalist! But her win-at-all-costs attitude is starting to drive a wedge between Zoe, her best friend Felix, and her family. Zoe may be a top cookie-dough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPGrisham, John.
Summary: The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRITavares, Matt
Summary: "A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC TAY (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Grisham, John.
Summary: The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRISilvey, Craig
Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SILSummary: Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CallLe Carré, John
Summary: Oliver Single, working as a children's magician in the English countryside, goes on the run when a deposit of over five million pounds to his infant daughter's modest trust alerts him that his past has caught up with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington - the Sons of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATBuckley, MacKenzie
Summary: "Halloween is here, and the PAW Patrol pups are on the case at a haunted cabin. Lift the flaps for fun surprises as you join Chase, Marshall, Skye, and all their friends on a spooky mission."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun International 2017
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Summary: When tragedy strikes at his own wedding, a young president takes on America's gun lobby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATSummary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONTPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy turns into love and marriage. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Picoult 2011Powell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWMiller, Suzie
Summary: "An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEPicoult, Jodi
Summary: A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LARGE PRINT FIC PICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Picoult 2011Picoult, Jodi
Summary: A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage, Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICSummary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe
Summary: In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSummary: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2011