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Dailey, Janet Headen, Sandra W. Hooper, Kay Hunter, Denise Kidd, Sue Monk Mangel, C. P. Owens, DeliaKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KIDSummary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Picking up a year after Season 2 ends, the still-audacious Kenny goes to Myrtle Beach, SC, a tourist destination filled with fireworks stores, mini-golf and underage boozing and somehow resurrects his baseball career as the closer for the minor-league Myrtle Beach Mermen. Kenny struggles to come to terms with growing older, both in his personal life, and professionally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EASSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEIHeaden, Sandra W.
Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAOwens, Delia
Summary: En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC OWESummary: Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store, has two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POCSummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESSummary: Garfield's owner, Jon, takes in sweet, but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside-down. Now Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and his life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, feeling responsible, tears himself away from the TV and springs into action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As Felicity bounces back from her beginning-of-the-year breakup with high school love Ben, she adopts a new hairdo, and a new perspective on life. Changing her major from premed to art, Felicity steps out to find herself and kindle new relationships. From mudslinging campus politics to Ben's end-of-the-season profession of true love, Felicity Season Two is a whirlwind of passion, heartache and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FELSummary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillHunter, Denise
Summary: Contractor Wes Mathews is hiking the Appalachian Trail in honor of his recently deceased best friend when he falls terribly ill when he's nearly finished. He stumbles into Riverbend Gap, the nearest town, and finds himself indebted to the doctor who owns the clinic. In lieu of payment, he proposes a trade that will keep him in town-- and away from obligations to his best friend's sister-- for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HUNSummary: A group of heroic figures span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEASummary: Roger Cobb is a swinging bachelor, a lawyer, and a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwaters is a terminally ill spinster who is given another chance at life if her soul can be transported into another woman. However, the guru goofs, and Edwina's soul takes over the right side of Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie All 1998Summary: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. And,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI HUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hunger 2012Dailey, Janet
Summary: Christmas is an especially exciting season in aptly named Noel, North Carolina, host of the annual 12 Competitions of Christmas, not to mention one of the largest producers of Christmas trees in the country--and it's not a bad place for a newcomer to put down roots either.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHooper, Kay
Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOOSummary: Take an unforgettable journey with the students of Cyprus-Rhodes University as they navigate the social minefield of college life. Join Casey, a sorority social climber, as she vies for president of Zeta Beta Zeta. Her world gets more complicated when her nerdy little brother, Rusty, arrives on campus and risks her reputation by joining a fraternity and trying to go from geek to Greek. On top...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Mangel, C. P.
Summary: "When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends, Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how, despite their education and talent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mangel 2019Summary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASSummary: Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005