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 MON

Summary: 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 EMB

Summary: 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 TSO
1 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 TSO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSO RATED R

Meloy, 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 MEL

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 MEL

Rissi, Anica Mrose

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 RIS

Meloy, 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 MEL

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 MEL

Summary: 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 LOV

Meloy, 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 MEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEL

Meloy, Maile.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEL

Summary: 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 ARO

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARO

Gray, 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 GRA

Gray, 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 GRA

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

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAC

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mack

Summary: 13-year-old Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, and somewhat overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for Mei. And as if changes to her body, interests, and relationships weren't enough, whenever Mei gets too excited, she "poofs" into a giant red panda.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY TUR

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

Freeman, Mylo

Summary: "Princess Arabella and her friends go to the museum. There are works of different artists exhibited: some are big and others are small. In some works you can lose yourself and others make you smile. Then the children want to go home. Why? Because they want to make their own work of art."--Publisher marketing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cassava Republic Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRE

Doehnert, Rodica

Summary: Vienna, 1892. Against all odds, at the height of Belle Époque splendor, Anna Sacher has taken possession of her late husband’s hotel, across the street from the famous opera house. At a time when controlling such a business was an opportunity afforded only to men, Anna is as vigilant as she is relentless. Now, under her ownership, the Hotel Sacher thrives amid the tumult of a changing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Doe

Doehnert, Rodica

Summary: "Vienna, 1892. Against all odds, at the height of Belle Époque splendor, Anna Sacher has taken possession of her late husband's hotel, across the street from the famous opera house. As the Hotel Sacher thrives, some will find romance. Some will unearth secrets. And some will discover much more than than they expected"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOE

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Doehnert 2019

Millington, Mil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL