Summary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: "In director Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be. Their 'spiritual quest', however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Darjeeling 2007Teatro Alla Scala
Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRAThala.
Contents: You had 2 -- Curtain call -- Easy out -- Are you thinking of me? -- Sink -- In theory depression.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Records 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK THAAyala, Vita
Summary: "At long last, Shuri faces her destiny! With her brother gone and Wakanda in peril, the Black Panther is needed-and Shuri must step up once again to fill the void. But the Princess of Wakanda is more than any mask - and she's about to face a threat unlike any her home has seen before! When it appears that an enemy of Wakanda has left a signature behind in America, Shuri heads overseas to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SHUHastings, Ximena
Summary: Mavis is thrilled to be reunited with her friends Sophie and Charlotte, twin werewolves from her Ghoul Scout troop. But when Aunt Lydia smells humans on the premises, she orders a lockdown of the castle and a search of the entire hotel. Mavis loves the idea of having her friends stay even longer than planned, but the twins are not. They're hiding a big secret that may put them straight in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HASHastings, Ximena
Summary: "Mavis's friend Hank has a problem. He is a Frankenstein monster, which means that his body comes apart in pieces. His friends think it is hilarious, but Hank is tired of being a monster and wishes he was normal. Mavis tries to help him make his wish come true, but turns him into a human by mistake! Everyone at Hotel Transylvania is terrified of humans! If she can't find a way to turn him back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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Summary: A workbook that examines world history on a middle school level. Organized by key concepts, the text includes mnemonic devices, definitions, timelines and doodles to help the subject stick in your brain, so you can ace your class.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 VENYola
Contents: Barely alive -- Dancing away in tears -- Diamond studded shoes -- Be my friend -- Great divide -- Starlight -- If I had to do it all again -- Now you're here -- Whatever you want -- Break the bough -- Like a photograph -- Stand for myself.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOLHastings, Ximena
Summary: Mavis is horrified when her dad names a pair of bat wings after her, but when a human finds them, she has to get them back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HASHastings, Ximena
Summary: "It is the spookiest day of the year ... Scream Day! Monsters are coming from all over Transylvania to see who's the scariest monster of all. Of course, Drac and Aunt Lydia expect Mavis to enter the contest. The problem is, Mavis doesn't want to scare anyone!"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
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Summary: "Come along with Daniel Tiger as he finds one hundred things that make him happy in the neighborhood! Join Daniel as he bakes cookies with Baker Aker, reads books with O the Owl, plays with his friends, and more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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Summary: "Led by Dr. Ick and her sidekick, Sam the dog, kids will learn many fascinating facts about ooey, gooey, disgusting SLIME--with some of the slimiest creatures, slimy things in the human body, and more! Did you know that the hagfish can produce a bucketful of slime in just minutes? And do you know what ear wax is actually made of? This book includes a fun, kid-friendly recipe for making their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HASAyala, Vita
Summary: Batman & Zatanna have to contain a curse that they helped release. But in order to reverse its effects, they're going to have to fix their frayed relationship. In 'Hounded': (Bat)man's best friend Ace the Bat-Hound breaks out of an animal testing facility with his new super-fur-friends in order to sniff out where Batman's been kidnapped for auction to his rogues gallery!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATAyala, Vita
Summary: After a cataclysmic plague sweeps across America, survivors come together to form citystate-like communities for safety. Daisy Walker is a Runner for The Compound, a mix of post-apocalyptic postal service and black market salvaging operation. It is a Runner's job to ferry items and people between settlements, and on occasion scavenge through the ruins of the old world. Daisy is the best there...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Mask Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AYAPINES, AYALA
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2024
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Summary: Yola's arresting vocals captivate with sincere tales of heartache and loves lost, forgotten, and broken. A traditional sonic tapestry of orchestral strings, fiddle, steel, and shimmering tremolo guitars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOLMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMala.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brownswood 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MALCiment, Jill
Summary: A gasoline tanker truck is "stuck" in the Midtown Tunnel. New Yorkers are panicked...Is this the next big attack? Alex, an artist, and Ruth, a former schoolteacher with an FBI file as thick as a dictionary, must get their beloved dachshund, whose back legs have suddenly become paralyzed, to the animal hospital sixty blocks north. But the streets of Manhattan are welded solid with traffic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009
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Summary: "Siena Cherson Siegel dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet.. Siena has worked hard her whole life to be a professional ballet dancer, then makes the difficult decision to quit dancing and tries to figure out what comes next. But what do you do when you have spent your entire life working toward a goal,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIEAwada, Dounya
Summary: "Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little Dounya wanted nothing less than to be perfect, like her mother. She pushed herself hard every day, excelling in schoolwork and at home. She had to be the cutest, prettiest, smartest girl in the room....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019