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Summary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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

Ritany, Alex

Summary: Navigating toxic friendships, grief, and the complexities of growing up, Nora's life takes a tragic turn when her best friend Julia dies, leaving her to unravel the secrets and lies hidden in their friendship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Alda, Alan

Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALD

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Alda

Alda, Alan

Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALD

Alda, Alan

Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALD

Alda, Alan

Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALD

Summary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRU

Ada, Alma Flor

Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX ADA

Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1998

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 468 Spanish
Call number: JE FIC ADA

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADA

Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ADA SPANISH

Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: Acting on the advice of the old woman on the cliff by the sea, three brothers who wish to find brides go in search of three golden oranges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books 1999

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ADA

Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ADA,

Alda, Arlene

Summary: In rhyming text, presents an illustrated and whimsical view of pairs of homonyms and homophones, such as horns (the musical instrument and those on an animal), flower/flour, and blew/blue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Alda 2006

Alda, Arlene

Summary: The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda’s Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees’ play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew’s CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ALD

Dacres, Sutanya

Summary: The creator and host of the podcast Dinner for One shares how she rebuilt her life after a painful divorce by beginning to cook dinner for one in her Paris kitchen while learning to date again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DACRES, SUTANYA DAC

Summary: The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRU

Summary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRU

Summary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRU

Summary: Includes fan favorites from some of Nick Jr.'s most popular television programs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADA

Ada, Alma Flor.

Summary: Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1994

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ISA SPANISH

Alai

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALA

Alias

Contents: Ghost cloudz -- Crimson across it (featuring Doseone) -- Vermillion coda -- Amber revisions -- Gold clouddead skiez -- Joseph Greenleaf mornings -- Pistachio payoff -- Vallejo's sapphire views -- Indiiggo (featuring Therese Workman) -- Amethyst afternoon-- Pitch black prism -- Slackened onyx -- Aikotune.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP ALI

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