Arena, Jen
Summary: In this story that incorporates Spanish words, Marta explores the world of opposites and animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AREArena, Tina.
Contents: Unravel Me (4:27) -- Overload (3:24) -- I Want To Love You (5:15) -- Colours (3:54) -- Not Still In Love With You (3:58) -- When You're Ready (3:40) -- Wouldn't Be Love If It Didn't (3:53) -- Magic (3:32) -- Lie In It (4:00) -- Karma (4:41) -- Love Falls (4:00) -- Heaven (3:39) -- No Filter (3:59) -- Walk With You (3:40).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 2015
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Summary: When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college, landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna, now Dee Rock, embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIFSummary: Aging actress Irina visits the country estate where her brother Sorin and her son Konstantin reside. She brings her lover Boris, a successful novelist. The estate teems with desire, jealousy and angst. The estate manager's daughter Masha is in love with Konstantin, who is in love with the sweet neighbor Nina, who is in love with Boris. Boris casually uses and discards Nina while Irina...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEAArana, Marie
Summary: "A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 ARACho, Zen
Summary: "A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power . . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHORubenfeld, Jed.
Summary: A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Arenas, Shelley
Summary: "Whether you want to visit a stunning national park, go wine-tasting in Oregon's Willamette Valley, or experience the culture of Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Pacific Northwest are here to help! Fodor's Pacific Northwest guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USASummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISArany, Lynne
Summary: "Whether you want to visit art galleries in Santa Fe, explore Georgia O'Keeffe's studio at Ghost Ranch, or learn about Native American history in Taos, the local Fodor's travel experts in New Mexico are here to help! Fodor's In Focus Santa Fe guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USAReyn, Irina
Summary: Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REYBush, Jeb.
Summary: From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today: immigration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 325.73 BUSLancaster, Jen.
Summary: The fiction debut of the New York Times bestselling author of My Fair Lazy.Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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Stevens, Bryna.
Summary: Relates how a determined aunt and a boy who swallowed a knife made it possible for young George Frederic Handel to study music despite his father's strong objections.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HANDEL STEAranda, Ana
Summary: "A family honors their living and dead relatives as they celebrate the Day of the Dead with shared food and stories"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ARAAsefa, Alexander
Summary: After a team of Navy SEALS rescues a CIA operative off the coast of Central America, they discover a terrorist plot which threatens the lives of American civilians and the Bandito Platoon must coordinate their efforts around the globe to stop the terrorists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACT RATED RRossner, Rena
Summary: "Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSJen, Gish
Summary: An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENWang, Jen
Summary: Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WAN (graphic novel)Erens, Pamela
Summary: Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that is waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by W.W. Norton and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EREMaren, Mesha
Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARWen, Leana S.
Summary: "Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of Time's 100 Most InfluentialPeople"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1 WENSummary: The remarkable true story of the visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby and the fearless British-born driver Ken Miles, who together battled corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020