Summary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMCiraolo, Simona
Summary: "He's not the type to stand out. In fact, unless you were looking for him, you wouldn't know he was missing at all. But you know us, the shy ones, we can always spot one another. This delicate picture book about a quiet little octopus that keeps to himself in a school of lively fish explores the topic of shyness and friendship"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CIRCiraolo, Simona
Summary: Felipe the cactus just wants a hug, but his family is not the touchy-feely kind, so he goes out into the world to find a friend and maybe get that long awaited hug.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E CIRCiraolo, Simona
Summary: Nothing is better than summer, with its joys of swimming every day and eating ice cream. One little boy's older sister tells him he'd better make the most of it, because summer is going to end soon. When winter comes, she assures him, it will be cold and dark, and the icy rain will turn to snow. They'll be stuck on the sofa for days and won't even dream of eating ice cream. The illustrations...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CIRGrey, Iona
Summary: "An unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one another from an award-winning author Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMerchant-Dest, Simona.
Summary: "Take your knowledge of top-down and seamless knitting to a higher level by learning how to convert and adapt lace, cable, and color patterns to circular knitting and shaping techniques"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Pr. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 MERSummary: Neera is a young girl who becomes seperated from her father in Arabia during World War II. Left alone in the desert, she befriends a wild colt, who she names Shetan. Once reunited with her father, however, Neera remains haunted by images of "the lost horse of the desert". This is the prequel to 'The Black Stallion' and shows the relationship between the stallion and the young girl who have come...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY YOUSummary: "A surprising and definitive take on Archie's origin--a story that has never been told. The book captures the bite and hilarious edge of Archie's original tales in a modern, forward-looking manner, while still retaining the character's all-ages appeal. If classic Archie is a Saturday morning cartoon, this new series is prime time!"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comic Publications, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ARCPrine, John.
Contents: (We're not) The jet set / Bobby Braddock -- So sad (to watch good love go bad) / Don Everly -- Wedding bells ; Let's turn back the years / Claude Boone-Hank Williams -- When two worlds collide / Roger Miller-Bill Anderson -- Milwaukee here I come / Lee Fikes -- I know one / Jack Clement -- It's a cheating situation / Claude Putman Jr.-Sonny Throckmorton -- Back street affair / Billy Wallace --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oh Boy Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PRISummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATAllison, Mose
Contents: Your mind is on vacation / (Taj Mahal) (2:42) -- My brain / (Robbie Fulks) (4:14) -- If you live / (Jackson Browne) (3:43) -- Your molecular structure / (the Tippo Allstars ; feat. Fiona Apple) (1:41) -- Nightclub / (Ben Harper + Charlie Musselwhite) (5:20) -- Stop this world / (Chrissie Hynde) (3:20) -- If you're going to the city / (Iggy Pop) (3:50) -- Everybody's crying mercy / (Bonnie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IFSummary: Fashion forward BFFs Minnie and Daisy take center stage as they tackle super-tough tasks and help out friends who need a hand:' Judging a surfing contest in Hawaii, Solving a doozy of a mystery; Photographing a rare rainforest bird; and much more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: Every single night -- Daredevil -- Valentine -- Jonathan -- Left alone -- Werewolf -- Periphery -- Regret -- Anything we want -- Hot knife.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Clean Slate/Epic 2012
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Contents: Sleep to dream (4:08) -- Sullen girl (3:53) -- Shadowboxer (5:24) -- Criminal (5:41) -- Slow like honey (5:56) -- The first taste (4:46) -- Never is a promise (5:54) -- THe child is gone (4:14) -- Pale September (5:50) -- Carrion(5:43).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Work/Clean Slate 1996
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Summary: Detective Elise King investigates a mans disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow. Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective--or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BARBuckley, Fiona
Summary: January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident - or something more sinister?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuckley, Fiona.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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Summary: Using copious materials--including diaries and scrapbooks--from the castle's archives, the current Countess of Carnarvon tells the story of Catherine Wendell, the beautiful and spirited American woman who married Lady Almina's son, the man who would become the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, while paying particular attention to the staff who offer the Castle continuity between generations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARNARVON, CATHERINE WENDELL CARChandler, Fiona.
Summary: Surveys the history of the ancient world from the earliest farmers to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 930 CHACummins, Fiona
Summary: After escaping the clutches of serial killer Brian Howley, Detective Sergeant Etta Fitroy must follow his grisly clues to finally bring him to justice. However, his endgame has a terrifying twist, one that will not only change Brian's fate but the fate of everyone that Etta loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMDavis, Fiona
Summary: "It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Davis 2020Davis, Fiona
Summary: New York City, 1956: Marion Brooks's college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs-- and she's feeling trapped. When she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-- the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-- she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DAVLeitch, Fiona
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021