Summary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: After his wife dies, a man fulfills her cultural wishes and asks a close friend to travel with him and his wife's body to a traditional burial ground.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SILSummary: After the death of his grandfather, Vasil wishes the neighboring farmers to share the use of a tractor purchased by the village council. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, he becomes the victim of a tragic murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARThan, Gavin Aung
Summary: "The Super Sidekicks are back! JJ, Flygirl, Dinomite, and Goo are settling into their fancy new headquarters and living the sweet life of superheroes. The Mother of the Seas, on the other hand, is NOT happy. She's sick of land dwellers using the ocean as a dumping ground ... and she's seeking revenge! Can the Sidekicks step up and save humanity from the ocean's rage?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 THAAki
Summary: A group of girls explore the city, from watching the sunrise from a rooftop and breakfast from a food cart to museums and parks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: A group of girls explore different natural environments, visiting the sea, the forest, the desert, grasslands, and the tundra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: A little unicorn feels all kinds of emotions, including sadness, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Chien Chow 2020Chien Chow Chine, Aur©♭lie
Summary: A little unicorn feels all kinds of emotions, including shyness, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BILSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSRivera, Gabby
Summary: "It begins with the story you've been waiting for: the origin of America Chavez! But everyone's favorite no-nonsense powerhouse soon meets her match -- in the form of the deadly and exotic Exterminatrix! Can America stand against this vile villainess, backed by the full power of the ominous Midas Corporation? America gains all-new but untested abilities -- and she'll need them against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AMESummary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MMuller, Herta
Summary: A collection of stories on life in Romania under Communism, illustrating the violence and the corruption. They are based on the writer's experience in her youth, in a village in the German-speaking part of the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.914 MULSummary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MSummary: A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. A film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYESummary: Lisa Palmer finds herself the owner of a former post office, which has been sitting vacant for this past few years. In hopes of saving the historically magical place in town, she and the towns cast of characters set out to restore it to its former glory. In the process, they find the town's beloved 'Mailbox to Santa' with a letter inside that never made it to the North Pole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Media Productions 2019
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Summary: After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SagEdwardson, Ake
Summary: An unidentified woman is found in a park. Examination shows that she had borne a child. Chief Inspector Erik Winter and his team are unable to find out who she is for quite a long time. Meanwhile, the child is in danger and may have been killed as well. It turns out that the child is experiencing a repeat of the mother's childhood history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWFuller, A.C.
Summary: "Someone in Seattle is murdering journalists ... and Alex Vane might be next. On a cold, rainy night in Seattle, a legendary journalist is found face down in the street below a posh high-rise. Local police are calling it a suicide, but Alex Vane sees signs of murder. With help from a brash young journalist, Alex pieces together clues from the dead man's extraordinary career. But an unexpected...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FULStohner, Anu.
Summary: Santa's littlest Helper is too small to deliver cookies and presents to the world's children, but when he learns that the forest animals never receive anything, he knows just what to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC StohnSage, Angie
Summary: With the UnRaveling threatening to destroy the kingdom, Tod embarks on a dangerous journey to find a new Keystone that may have the power to save the castle and its Magyk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAGSage, Angie.
Summary: When Princess Jenna is pursued by a dark wizard, it is the apprentice, Septimus Heap, who must save her while enduring such terrors as a night in the Forest with hungry wolverines and carnivorous trees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperTrophy 2007
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SAGArudpragasam, Anuk
Summary: "A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House 2021