Summary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CULQuinn, Anthony (Anthony J.)
Summary: "Detective Celcius Daly is investigating the abduction of a boy by a group of travelers already under investigation for smuggling and organized crime. As he digs into the child's background, he discovers a family secret linked to an unsolved crime during The Troubles--the disappearance of a young woman and her baby. Daly's investigation shakes loose some harrowing truths about the lawlessness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIKozikoğlu, Tülin
Summary: "This is the story of two parallel journeys in cities far apart. A mother and a son leave their home for a better day, while a father and a daughter leave their home for a safer day. The concerns of the parents are almost the same as they watch over their kids, but their experiences are sadly very different. The father and daughter are fleeing a city devastated by war, leaving their home--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOZAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie and Myron invent a machine that can collect golf balls from the bottom of their local course's pond scum, but they discover a friendly creature lurking beneath the water.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLSummary: When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SONNewman, Lesléa
Summary: "Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NEWCleeves, Ann
Summary: "Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLERagnar Jónasson
Summary: "Young policeman Ari Thór tries to solve a 50-year-old murder when new evidence surfaces. But the case proves difficult in a town where no one wants to know the truth, where secrets are a way of life. He's assisted by Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik who is investigating an increasingly chilling case of her own. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight. With a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGRagnar Jónasson
Summary: The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JONJosse, Gaëlle
Summary: "New York, November 3, 1954. In a few days, the immigration inspection station on Ellis Island will close its doors forever. John Mitchell, an officer of the Bureau of Immigration, is the guardian and last resident of the island. As Mitchell looks back over forty-five years as gatekeeper to America and its promise of a better life, he recalls his brief marriage to his beloved wife Liz, and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSWinfrey, Oprah
Summary: Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD IMM NOT RATEDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMMHenkes, Kevin.
Summary: The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HENWebb, Heather
Summary: "Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBDeveraux, Jude
Summary: In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with Cora McLeod and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. The angels disagreed. In the present day, Liam finds himself in Providence Falls, North Carolina, with the task of making sure Cora falls in love with another man. But this Cora is an independent, confident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEVDeveraux, Jude
Summary: "In 1840s Ireland, heartstruck thief Liam O'Connor lures away, lovely Cora from her intended, so angels send him to small-town in contemporary America to right this wrong. He must convince today's Cora, a police detective, to marry a lawyer she loves, or Liam will be damned for eternity." - Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Deveraux 2020Seales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEASummary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEABeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Dead on Target. A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods--with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeatonCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BEALlywelyn, Morgan.
Summary: As druids in Celtic Gaul, they had been the harmonious soul of their tribe. But when Julius Caesar and his army invaded and conquered their homeland, the great druid Ainvar and his clan fled for their lives, taking with them the ancient knowledge. Guided by a strange destiny, they found themselves drawn to a green island at the very rim of the world: Hibernia, home of the Gael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLYGrainger, Jean
Summary: "As long as Carmel stays in London, nothing can happen to shatter her perfect life. She has a wonderful marriage, a rewarding career and a great bunch of friends. As far as she's concerned, the sadness of her past can stay back in Ireland, where it belongs. For Carmel, Ireland only means misery, loneliness and fear and she never wants to return. The new, confident and happy Carmel only exists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerO'Connor, Carlene
Summary: "Former New Yorker and interior designer Tara Meehan is eagerly anticipating the grand opening of her architectural salvage shop Renewals in her newly adopted home of Galway. She's in the midst of preparations when heiress Veronica O'Farrell bursts in to announce she's ready for some renewal of her own. To celebrate one year of sobriety, she's invited seven people she wronged in her drinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'CONeville, Stuart
Summary: Returning to work after battling breast cancer, Belfast DCI Serena Flanagan re-opens a closed case after Ciaran Devine, the "schoolboy killer" who, at the age of twelve, confessed to killing his foster father, is released from prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SOHO Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M NEVReyes, Ana
Summary: "Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd started spending time with that summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PALMorton, Samantha
Summary: Prince Max and Queen Grandma use marbles to figure out if Ruby is a true princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2011