Summary: "Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreams of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as an unpopular high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass and won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WORSummary: Eight-year-old Ishaan can't seem to get anything right in class and gets into more trouble than is parents can handle. They pack him off to boarding school to 'be disciplined, ' and his art teacher, Nikumbh, realizes that something is wrong and sets out to discover what it is. With time, patience, and care, Nikumbh helps Ishann find himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKChapman, Clay McLeod
Summary: "Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, a quiet but pleasant life as an art teacher at Elijah's elementary school, and the dream of becoming a real artist some day. Then the body of a rabbit, ritualistically murdered, appears on the school playground with a birthday card for Richard tucked...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Words 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOR RATED PG-13DePree, Traci.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEPSummary: A sane woman is locked up in an asylum by a fraudulent English aristocrat who is afraid she may expose his 'secret.' Escaping while wearing a white gown, she runs into a youthful hero who becomes haunted by his brief meeting with this 'woman in white.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMBrundage, Elizabeth.
Summary: Upstate New York. George Clare comes home from his position as an art teacher at a private college to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone. George is the immediate suspect, and a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving him a heartless murderer. Three teenage brothers who previously lived in the house become entangled in the investigation. But behind one crime...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRURice, Luanne.
Summary: Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, John, broke her heart--and tore their little family apart. Now, John has returned to the family. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely remembers him, and a third who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there is Honor...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RICSaul, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAUSummary: The untold story of the legendary artist behind the beloved '80s show The Secret City. Commander Mark Kistler helped shape a pivotal era of instructional programming for kids in the pre-youtube world, teaching 3D drawing before CGI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC SECCrusie, Jennifer.
Summary: Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog despite everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRULattari, Katie
Summary: "A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees. Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lattari 2021Levine, Jenna
Summary: "True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy. Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it's a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she's desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch-only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price. Of course, her new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEVCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVDePree, Traci.
Summary: The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay! A hopeful story of facing the challenges of life with courage and learning to see with eyes of grace, "Dandelions in a Jelly Jar" gently reminds you that the best bouquets are dandelions. -Goodreads
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEPSaul, John.
Summary: Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah Crane finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips who is eager to mentor Sarah's artistic talent. But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral home, Sarah finds something altogether different and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUWalbert, Kate
Summary: "In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walbert 2015Saul, John.
Summary: Outcast by an injury sustained from her father, foster child Sara Crane befriends a former mental patient and her art teacher and soon creates paintings of long-ago violent crimes committed by the inmates of a local asylum.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SAUGutman, Dan
Summary: The sensational My Weird School series has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide! In this third book of the sixth arc, A.J. and his friends get a peek into the art world with expert Professor Pitt. A special guest has arrived at Ella Mentry School! Professor Pitt is the president of a local museum and has all sorts of wacky ideas about art. A.J. thinks its all a total snoozefest ... until...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Husband and wife college professors Hollis and Finn Larsson receive a mysterious envelope containing passports under new names. They are forced onto a private plane headed to Argentina, with a mission to find an art thief.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODOLongworth, M. L. (Mary Lou)
Summary: "Something strange has happened at the unassuming Mus©♭e de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents -- only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern remain. Distressed, he calls the local police, and Aix's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Longworth 2021Truman, Margaret
Summary: When the body of a young theatre volunteer named Nadia Zarinski is found in a dark alley, two cops, Rick Klayman and Moses "Mo" Johnson, discover that Nadia was the intern for, and the rumored lover of, an influential right-wing Senator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUO'Connor, Jane.
Summary: Although excited at the prospect of a fancy class trip to the art museum, the bumpy bus ride to get there leaves Nancy feeling anything but fancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR PURPLE O'Co1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE O'Co
Vreeland, Susan.
Summary: Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacMurray & Beck 1999