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Summary: In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly-completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NISSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIRSummary: The most wonderful time of the year: The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan's love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 10 MIslet
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLSummary: When Roo meets up with a feared Heffalump, he quickly learns an important lesson: they are nothing like what he's been told, and he has much more to gain by befriending Lumpy than fearing him. They strike up a friendship as they spend the day together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Video 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV POOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD P00 RATED GCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POOContents: Bull doze blues (Henry Thomas) -- Good looking girl blues (Furry Lewis) -- Mean black cat blues (Charley Patton) -- Cracking them things (Mississippi Sheiks) -- Miss Emma Liza (Blind Blake) -- Rattle snake groan (Luella Miller) -- Your enemies cannot harm you (but watch your close friend) (Rev. E.W. Clayborn) -- Long lonesome blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- She's a long tall disconnected mama...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blues Images 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BLUSummary: A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAI1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RAI
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guide of Master Craftsman Publications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 NisbettNesbet, Anne
Summary: "It's 1915, and "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman is living incognito as "Bella Mae Goodwin" with her best friend, Darleen Darling, star of the exciting photoplay serials adventure-loving audiences crave. When the girls travel cross-country to set up roots in Hollywood, California, home of the developing film industry, they find themselves mixed up in a plot as dramatic as anything on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC NESNisbett, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 NISNesbet, Anne
Summary: After she is sent to her grandmother's orphanage in Maine when her father becomes a fugitive from the law in 1940s America, Augusta Neubronner has to deal with her classmates' suspicions over her German name and tries to find comfort in playing in the orphanage band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIASummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J FIC NES
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction NesbetCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESNesbet, Anne.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Linny embarks on an epic quest to save her best friend and discovers that she is the link between the magical and logical halves of her world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESBanna, Rim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST BANMertens, Wim
Contents: A visiting card (6:49) -- The fosse (7:51) -- No plans, no projects (5:04) -- Whisper me (18:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill Records 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE MERMyhr, Mim
Contents: Sort sol -- O horizon -- Swales fell -- Peel me -- Milk run sky
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MYHSlegers, Liesbet.
Summary: Retells the story of the birth of Jesus and the first Christmas, from Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem to the visits of the shepherds and the three kings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2010
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SLEJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIONissen, Craig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.09 NISYim, Natasha
Summary: While helping her granny Po Po prepare for the biggest Chinese festival of the year, Ling invites readers into her home and family to experience this special celebration firsthand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023