Harris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARSummary: After an injury and losing her college basketball scholarship, a young woman returning home struggles to rebuild her life as she and her family in Flint, Michigan face internal turmoil and the aftermath of a deadly water crisis. The bonds of family are all they have left as they rebuild their lives, their town, and their hope for their future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLIFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ben is a 23-year-old slacker who meets up and coming career girl Alison at a bar. They end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison meets him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby's sake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNOWilde, Jen
Summary: "An adventure story that examines consent and privacy in a way that books have not had to before this generation where everything is online. As much as Paige hates the word normal, it's a pretty good word to describe her life, and the kind of night she was having just before a single email turned her world upside down. In an effort to better understand and communicate with their autistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WATFaulks, Sebastian
Summary: When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments, which they hope to keep secret, they propose an experiment that will upend the human race as we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hutchinson Heinemann 2023
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Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODMazur, Rachel
Summary: "Izzy's family is moving to a big city at the end of the summer, and she is filled with dread. She'll start fifth grade at a new school where she doesn't know anyone. Meanwhile, a bird she names Señor Wilson also faces a big move. He'll soon migrate south for the winter--a journey full of peril. As Izzy's adventure unfolds in parallel with Señor Wilson's, it seems Izzy's worst fears may come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Nature Mazur 2019Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEAWatson, Cristy
Summary: "This book tells a tough but realistic story about teen relationships and sexual assault and how social media plays a role in magnifying its impact. In suburban Vancouver, in a multiracial mixed-income neighbourhood, three 14-year-old friends, a boy and two girls, go to a party organized by the boy's older brother. One of the girls, who comes from a mixed-race Aboriginal/Caucasian family of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2018Ballard, J. G.
Summary: An unemployed advertising executive investigates why the deranged man who shot his father in a shopping mall was released without being charged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: When it's Bingo's turn to take Bob Bilby the puppet home, will they put down their screens and devices to have fun times? This book retells the Bluey episode, Bob Bilby. Once again, Blue Heelers Bingo and Bluey use their limitless energy to explore their world in unpredictable and humorous ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: "YOU are struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As a migrant worker, you travel from place to place hoping to earn enough money to get by. How will you find a way to feed and clothe yourself and your family? Step back in time to face the challenges that real people were met with during this difficult time in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: You Choose, an imprint of Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DOESummary: Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2015
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Summary: "Aspiring artist Kacie spends most of her time on Mercer Street with her best friend Nisha, but one day Nisha and her family are gone, and Kacie struggles to understand the changes happening to her street and neighborhood, and what they mean for her life."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: "'Mes croyances sont limitées, mais elles sont violentes. Je crois à la possibilité du royaume restreint. Je crois à l'amour' écrivait récemment Michel Houellebecq. Le narrateur de Sérotonine approuverait sans réserve. Son récit traverse une France qui piétine ses traditions, banalise ses villes, détruit ses campagnes au bord de la révolte. Il raconte sa vie d'ingénieur agronome, son amitié...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC HOUTodd-Stanton, Joe
Summary: "When Nyla has to leave her home in the countryside to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts glow and grow, Nyla can't resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before ... but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TODMacDibble, Bren
Summary: "It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MACStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOAirth, Rennie
Summary: It's 1921 when the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife, and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime, the killer is plotting his second strike.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Clipper Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Corina's Abuela helps her select flowers that mean something to Corina from the garden for her Mexican flower crown that she will wear on her birthday, and explains the symbolic meaning of a birthday crown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023