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Bridges, Jeff

Summary: A collection of four adapted stories by the Brothers Grimm.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Releasing 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHE

Summary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BRO

Carney, Scott

Summary: Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans-- feats of endurance that now seem impossible without modern technology. Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology? Carney explores the true connection between the mind and the body and reveals the science that allows us to push past our perceived limitations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017

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Holub, Joan

Summary: Young Poseidon must overcome his fear of the sea and its creatures to save a fellow Olympian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022

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Summary: After their mother is burned at the stake for withchcraft, Margit and her sister, Katla, flee across Iceland. Reaching a remote farm, Katla casts a spell on its young widower, Johann, and soon the two are wed, to the dismay of his suspicious son, Jonas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUN

Brackston, Paula

Summary: "Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brackston 2015

Demoustier, Anais

Summary: After her father sells her to the Devil, a young woman escapes and must find her way to a new life without her hands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN GIR

Roberts, Julia

Summary: An exiled princess attempts to win back her birthright after an evil queen takes over the kingdom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MIR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE MIR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Mi

Venditti, Robert.

Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of "The Titan's Curse," in which the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2013

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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RIO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC RIO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PER

Summary: Join Ariel as she learns an exciting new dance, discovers mysterious ghost lights under the sea, babysits a little octopus friend--and more! Each story is the ideal length to be read aloud in five minutes, perfect for bedtime, story time or anytime!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2023

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Summary: The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in which King Creon orders Antigone's death for burying her slain brother against the King's desire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANT

Midthun, Joseph

Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces plant and animal adaptations that allow for survival in the wild"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 578.4 MID

Summary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OED

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Summary: Biography takes an inside look at the lives of the three stars (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint) who play Harry Potter and his two best friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HAR

Ripley, Mark

Summary: Readers with inquisitive minds are guaranteed to enjoy this fascinating look at life science in action. Highlighting one of Earth s most popular animals, this book investigates the science behind the polar bear s unique adaptations. Each chapter is accompanied by vibrant photographs, which complement the text. Manageable language explains advanced concepts in an accessible manner. This...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.786 RIP

Venditti, Robert.

Summary: Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2014

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Summary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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Venditti, Robert

Summary: "Mythological monsters and gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find a return Zeus's stolen property and bringpeace to a warring Mount Olympus."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC RIO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PER

Scales, Helen

Summary: A renowned oceanographer introduces the Great Barrier Reef and its ecosystems, revealing how the reef came to be, its place in the world and what we can all do to help ensure that it is around for future generations to discover and enjoy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.7 SCA

Summary: In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR

Summary: Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HE'S

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD H

Summary: A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FEA

Summary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BEL

Summary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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