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Summary: On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WON

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Wo

Summary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPE

Viva, Frank

Summary: Rhyming text tells of a boy's birthday at Coney Island, while each turn of the page reveals a new meaning for an oronym--a pair of words or phrases which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIV

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VIV

Femia, Gina

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FEM

Wood, H. P. (Hilary Poole)

Summary: "After Kitty Armstrong's mother vanishes from their Coney Island hotel in 1904, Kitty finds herself alone, hungry, penniless, and far away from her native England. The unusual inhabitants of Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet take her under their wing, but even they may not be a match for the insidious sickness that is plaguing Coney Island"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOO

Kheiriyeh, Rashin

Summary: Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she usedto eat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHE

Mlynowski, Sarah

Summary: After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024

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Coleman, Reed Farrel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bleak House Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COL

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.

Summary: While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRE

Engel, Morris

Summary: A seven-year-old boy hides out in Coney Island after being tricked into believing he has killed his brother; the dating life of a widow in New York City is seen through the eyes of both her and her young daughter's; a struggling photographer delays his wedding until he is financially secure, frustrating his fiancaee; follows the relationships of a young woman living with a group of hippies in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIT

Tan, Sheri

Summary: Pablo invites his friends to go with him and his father to Coney Island to celebrate the end of summer, using his trusty maps to guide their way by bus and subway train.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TAN

Montgomery County (N.Y.) Dept. of History & Archives

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Department. 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.374746 MON

Woods, Kell

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Summary: Harry, his best friend Tyrone, his girlfriend Marion, and his mother all struggle with drug addiction against a backdrop of the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REQ

O'Callaghan, Billy

Summary: "Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm Tóibín, evokes the long love affair between a man and a woman, each married to another, who meet every month in a decaying hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn. These beautiful, carefully-rationed days have long sustained Michael and Caitlin's love, and have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCA

Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: A modern-day retelling of Cinderella narrated by the mouse who becomes a horse for Cinderella's stagecoach.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023

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Summary: "Many children are familiar with the story of Sleeping Beauty. This retelling includes diverse characters through brilliant illustrations. Readers will follow the story of a princess who is cursed by an evil fairy to die if she ever touches a spindle. When the princess grows up, she touches the spindle and falls into a deep sleep. Now, only a kiss from a prince can save the day. Readers will...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books, an imprint of Rosen Publishing 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SLE

Collings, Michaelbrent

Summary: "When twins Willow and Jake are pulled into an alternate universe filled with characters from the Grimm fairy tales, they must battle the witch in the woods to save Hansel and Gretel and find a way home"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2024

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West, Wallace

Summary: A smart and sassy boy in a red riding hood confronts a pushy wolf espousing gender norms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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Sims, Lesley

Summary: "Poor Cinderella is made to cook and clean for her stepsisters. Her wicked stepmother won't even let her go to the Royal Ball. But then, in a flurry of sparkles, her Fairy Godmother arrives and everything changes."--Amazon.com

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020

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Aclin, Justin

Summary: From the brilliant imagination of video game auteur American McGee comes a dazzling reenvisioning of Red Riding Hood set in the wondrous world of Japanese folklore! Justin Aclin and Vasilis Lolos take Kani--a young woman torn between two cultures--on an epic adventure battling devious yokai for the fate of her world!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ACL

Summary: A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lorenzo's 2004

Fabbri, Robert

Summary: Alexander the Great's sudden and unexpected death has left the largest, most formidable empire the world has ever seen leaderless. As the fight to take control descends into ruthless scheming and bloody battles, no one - man, woman or child - is safe. As wars on land and sea are lost and won, and promises are made only to be broken, long-buried secrets come to light in the quest for the true...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAB

Steel, Danielle.

Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

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