Summary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONMilo
Contents: Poet (black bean) -- Landscaping (featuring Elucid) -- Call + form (picture) -- Magician (Suture) -- The young man has a point (nurture) (featuring Youngman) -- Pablum//celeskingiii -- Note to Mrs. -- Paging Mr. Bill Nunn -- Sorcerer -- Take advantage of the naysayer -- IDK -- Yet another (featuring Lorde Fredd33, YCP Beno, Signor Benedick the Moor) -- Ornette's swan song (featuring Self...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP MILSummary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMBSummary: A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TSO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TSO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TSOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSO RATED RMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Travis, B. -- Red from green -- Lovely Rita -- Spy vs. spy -- Two-step -- The girlfriend -- Liliana -- Nine -- Agustn̕ -- The children -- O tannenbaum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile.
Summary: Continuing the family saga of her first novel, "Liars and Saints," Meloy's second follows Abby Collins from the age of seven, when her feckless mother and sober father separate, to her success as a young novelist. The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MELGreene, Milo.
Contents: Prelude (1:03) -- White Lies (3:15) -- On The Fence (3:27) -- Save Yourself (3:01) -- Heartless (3:25) -- Parents' House (4:10) -- Gramercy (3:32) -- Interlude (1:23) -- When It's Done (2:54) -- Lie To Me (3:35) -- Not Enough (3:45) -- Lonely Eyes (3:56) -- Royal Blue (4:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra/Chop Shop 2014
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Meloy, Maile.
Contents: Tome -- Four lean hounds, ca. 1976 -- Native sandstone -- Ranch girl -- Garrison junction -- Red -- Aqua boulevard -- The river -- Kite whistler aquamarine -- Last of the white slaves -- Thirteen & a half -- Paint -- The ice harvester -- A stakes horse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile
Summary: "From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile
Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELRossi, Milo
Summary: "The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful features explanations of some of the most intriguing and entertaining facts from prehistory, ancient Egypt, the Industrial Revolution, and beyond. " -- Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet Press 2023
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Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISDiplo
Summary: DJ Diplo lends his eclectic ear and considerable talents to a guided tour through classic tracks from the Greensleeves reggae catalogue.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: VP Music Group 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIPMeloy, Maile
Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX MELMeloy, Maile.
Summary: On Oprah's Summer Reading List for 2010 Award-winning writer Maile Meloy's return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Meloy, Maile.
Summary: Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELHilt
Contents: Birdwatcher -- 950 -- Superhoney -- Way out there -- 222 -- El diablo -- Loudmouth canyon -- Home -- 314 -- Sandy feet -- Never gonna fall again -- Walkin on thunder -- Crazy for you -- Real cool rain -- World's goin down -- The ride.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HILSummary: A love story for anyone who has ever wondered: How do I know when I've found the one? Larenz Tate and Nia Long have magnetism and chemistry to burn as the striving, artistically talented twentysomethings he's a poet, she's a photographer who sparks over their love of literature and jazz, but whose mutual reluctance to commit to a relationship leaves them both navigating an emotional minefield...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVSummary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AROGray, Mila
Summary: A talented recording artist succumbing to a stalker's psychological games falls passionately in love with her bodyguard, an ex-Marine battling trauma from his service in Afghanistan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAGray, Mila
Summary: Told in two voices, eighteen-year-old Zoey Ward struggles to protect her mother and siblings from her violent father, and her brother's best friend, Tristan, a member of the Coast Guard, tries to make her feel safe. From the author of Come Back to Me. Zoey has spent much of her life caring for her mom and her little sister, defending them from her violent father. She sacrificed her wants and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAKaradaglić, Miloš
Contents: 1. Allegro con spirito (5:58) -- 2. Adagio (00:10:52) -- 3. Allegro gentile (4:42) -- Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy (3:52) -- Danza del Molinero ("El Sombrero de Tres Picos") (3:02) -- Invocacion y danza (9:14) -- 1. Villano y Ricercare (Adagietto - Andante moderato) (5:07) -- 2. Espa?oleta y Fanfare de la Caballeria de Napoles (00:10:20) -- 3. Danza de las hachas (2:01) -- 4....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Classics 2014
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Summary: A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her inner 70-year-old.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022