Summary: A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "After Annie Jacobson's older brother is deployed to Vietnam during the war, tragedy at home brings their estranged father home without welcome. As tensions heighten, Annie and her family must find a way to move forward as they try to hold both hope and grief in the same hand" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINSamuel, Kim
Summary: "Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political stability. We are searching for deeper connection. We are longing to belong. On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 SAMLouis, Édouard
Summary: "An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHOSummary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN REDPhillips, Caryl
Summary: A reimagining of Wuthering Heights traces the multigenerational forces that shape the lives of a young Heathcliff, the Brontë sisters and their brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHISummary: In recovery and living with his mother, Norval decides to visit his estranged father after receiving a letter from the man he barely knows. He finds out that not only is his dad a deadbeat, but reprecussions from a shady past are bearing down on him while Norval battles demons both real and imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR COMSummary: As The Authority's newest employee, Orson finds it difficult to connect with his enigmatic desk mate, Rakesh, or any of his other colleagues. His alienation deepens when he discovers a room he's told doesn't exist, a place that unleashes his true potential, leading to an ascent up the corporate ladder. Buoyed by his newfound confidence, Orson invites a receptionist into his sanctuary, sparking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CORSummary: An alien, on mission a mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACChapman, Fern Schumer
Summary: "A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement "Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret." Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.875 CHACallender, Kacen
Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence. Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their sleepy town. They make a blood pact to jump together in five days time, before their thirteenth birthdays. Not that navigating the unspoken pecking order of the school quad makes it easy. Can the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DEBKinsella, Sophie
Summary: It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: "Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MOSER, BARRY MOSHannah, Kristin
Summary: With her wedding day approaching, Claire Cavenaugh prepares to confront her estranged older sister and self-absorbed mother after more than twenty years apart and find out how to transform themselves into a family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2009
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Summary: A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHMcCoy, Kathy
Summary: A meaningful and supportive guide to rebuilding family relationships and dealing with the pain of estrangement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 MCCBaker, Amy J. L.
Summary: "Parenting Under Fire presents theoretical frameworks and specific suggestions for the parents of hurt, angry, rejecting, distant children of all ages and all stages of connection"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent BakerBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZMengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENYuknavitch, Lidia.
Summary: The Misfit’s Manifesto is for misfits around the world—the rebels, the eccentrics, the oddballs, and anyone who has ever felt like she was messing up. It’s Lidia’s love letter to all those who can’t ever seem to find the “right” path. She won’t tell you how to stop being a misfit—quite the opposite. In her charming, poetic, funny, and frank style, Lidia will reveal why being a misfit is not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TED Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017