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Summary: A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" ( The Nation ). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATSummary: Shot over a ten-year period, this documentary follows the changing times in New York's East Village as seen through the eyes of Josh Pais who grew up on 7th Street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise Acres Productions 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESSteel, Danielle
Summary: Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency. Eager to impress her new colleagues, Jane jumps right in as an assistant to Hailey West, one of the agents in the literary department. Even though she's a newcomer, Jane quickly realizes that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEELiu, Dane
Summary: Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUBenson, Tyler.
Summary: "The Coast Guard must enter the dangerous exclusionary zone of Niagara Falls to rescue a family trapped on a disabled, drifting boat. It's up to Onyx to swim a tow line to the family."--P [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ensign Benson Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC BENSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANASummary: Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied. Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NANSummary: "Although a recent graduate of Brown University, Jaye Tyler decides to ignore her degree, live in a trailer and work at a tourist gift shop in Niagara Falls called Wonderfalls--much to the despair of her well-to-do family. But Jaye's aimless life takes a startling turn after a lion figurine begins talking to her. Her family calls it an "episode", but Jaye know better. Fearing for her sanity,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WONAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACESummary: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SATRuby, Laura
Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBGross, Andrew
Summary: A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROSummary: The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Summary: The year is 1915, the dawn of the hydroelectric era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a life of comfort and ease as the younger daughter of the director of the Niagara Power company. But when a tragedy leaves her beautiful sister dead and her family disgraced, Bess's life is transformed beyond imagination."-Book Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUCSummary: Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power, and influence to outmaneuver the other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BILL RATED RAcevedo, Linda J.
Summary: In the 1970s Bronx, Manolo, a shy Puerto Rican boy, overcomes his fears and insecurities to become part of a new innovative dance style called breaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACEFranco
Summary: His father and everybody else at the museum in New York is excited over the dinosaur eggs that Mike Evans found in Montana--the trouble is they are hatching and Mike will need the help of his mysterious and time-traveling friend Shannon to capture them before they wreck the museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAPatterson, James
Summary: Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMISummary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Broken 2007Summary: The iconic characters and world of Sex and the City are the exciting jumping off point for this all-new series, which finds Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte navigating the complicated reality of friendship, family, and New York in their 50s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANDWilson, Anne A
Summary: Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Alison Malone has been assigned to a search-and-rescue team based at Naval Air Station Fallon Nevada, near the rugged peaks of the Sierra Nevada and far from her former elite H-60 squadron. A rule follower by nature, Alison is exasperated and outraged every time she flies with her mission commander, "Boomer" Marks, for whom military procedures are merely a suggestion....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016