Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALAlvarez, Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395.24 ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A cultural exploration of the Latina fifteenth birthday celebration traces the experiences of a Queens teen preparing for her quinceañera, in an account that documents the history of the celebration's traditions as well as its growing popularity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 395.24 ALVCarter, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GPI Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 CARÁlvarez, Noé
Summary: "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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Summary: Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walker 2013Walker, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALHalter, Marek.
Summary: The story of Sarah-and of history itself-begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord,Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has plannned for her. The groom is handsome and a nobleman, but on their wedding day, Sarah panics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALWalser, David
Summary: Gathers eight traditional stories from Poland, including "The Trumpeter of Kraków" and "The Warsaw Mermaid" that feature dragons, magic, mythical events from Polish history, and the evil witch Baba Jaga.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WALWalder, Tracy
Summary: "A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALDER WALWalser, Don.
Contents: Rolling stone from Texas -- The John Deere tractor song -- Cowpoke -- Shotgun boogie -- Whispering pines -- Texas top hand -- Danny Boy -- Rose Marie (with Kronos Quartet) -- Hot rod mercury -- Please help me I'm falling -- Arkansas -- Fool such as I -- We could, you and I (with Crystal Gayle) -- Big ball's in cowtown -- Legend in my time -- I really don't want to know -- Truck drivin' man --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Star/Texas Music Group 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WALAlvarez, Danielle
Summary: "Always Add Lemon is the highly anticipated first book from American-born Danielle Alvarez--one of the most exciting young chefs cooking in Australia today. Taking the lessons, skills and tastes acquired working alongside some of the best chefs in America, Danielle translates formidable kitchen smarts into an inspiring collection of recipes and projects for nourishing, vegetable-forward,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ALVAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alvarez 2020Alvarez, Julia
Summary: A too busy butterfly who spends her day hurrying and worrying finds her own "quiet place" after learning about meditation and mindfulness from a flower bud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ALVHalter, Marek.
Summary: Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign-born wives, Lilah rebels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HALHalter, Roman.
Summary: A Holocaust survivor's account of his six-year journey through the enclaves of Nazi Europe describes how Hitler's armies forced him to become the local SS chief's slave, the deaths of his family and schoolmates, and his escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HALBalter, Michael
Summary: Most investor pitch meetings don’t end in murder - but then Marty and Bo haven’t had a lot of luck lately. They’ve been struggling to keep their startup business alive. It’s not high-tech, it’s not highly successful and the pressure to find capital has strained their bank accounts and Marty’s marriage. So when Nico Scava offered to invest they eagerly accepted. He had money, connections in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BALWalther, Max
Summary: "Bustling construction sites are everywhere in Wimmelcity. In My Big Wimmelbook--At the Construction Site, join Sarah the architect, Eric the surveyor, and the rest of this hardworking crew as they build roads, a downtown building, and so much more!"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2018
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Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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