Summary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVEBechdel, Alison
Summary: In this the 10th book, Mo, everybody's favorite curmudgeon, blithely rants about Dr. Laura, Donald Rumsfeld, gay Enron execs, and the pernicious effects of Frogger, while her cozy counterculture community is quickly shifting beneath her feet. As the members of Alson Bechdel's colorful crew hash out their personal and ideological differences, a black-and-white world takes on surprisingly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BECBechdel, Alison
Summary: "From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BECCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 BECCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BECBechdel, Alison
Summary: This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BECCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BECBoucher, Lisa
Summary: Presents a discussion of addiction as experienced by women, and the difficult road to recovery. Features essays from mothers, daughters, health professionals, and young women who share their stories of why they drank, how they stopped, and the joys and rewards of being present in their lives once they kicked alcohol to the curb.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 BOUBecker, Lisa Liberty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wish Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 BECSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRAAnderson, Alloa Caviness
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anderson 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774 AnderSummary: When the Morels' seventeen-year-old daughter Lea fails to return home after a night out celebrating her birthday, the family is unexpectedly thrown into their worst nightmare. Mother Florence tries to remain strong for her other children, while father Julien begins an investigation of his own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DISSummary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Becket
Summary: "Anne Rice's cosmology of Vampiredom from Akasha to Zenobia"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSummary: Welcome to the fairy best café in the Puddlebrook. Help Butterbean and friends on Opening Day in a delicious double-length special. Take a spin in the Sweet Ride, serve up Fluttercakes, help prep Cricket's first menu, and even make lunch for the president. Just watch out for greedy Ms. Marmalady.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BUTFawkes, Glynnis
Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Charlotte Brontë, following her and her siblings from childhood to the publication of Jane Eyre"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney - Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FAWSummary: The Saugatuck dunes, on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, are a refuge for wildlife and for people. In the early twenty-first century, the endurance of their grassy hills, forested ridges, and the cool river that winds among them is something of a miracle. This ever-changing land- and seascape, with its white beaches and shifting patterns of light, has captured the imaginations of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SAUAline
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIAlpha.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melankolic/Virgin Records 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ALPSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOBecher, Natalie
Summary: Krit and his dog, Mu, love their beautiful home in Thailand--full of golden temples, colorful mountainsides, and endless adventures. Everything seems perfect until Krit's mother announces they will be moving to the frigid city of Chicago. At first, Krit tries to adjust to this unfamiliar place, but he can't do any of the things he used to love. Missing Thailand, Krit asks his mother to tell him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bala Kids 2020
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Contents: Deep forest reel -- Second harvest -- Music box waltz -- The pipes are calling -- Jesu joy of man's desiring -- Green Willis -- O'Carolyn's draught -- St. Anne's reel -- Fair and tender ladies -- Year of jubilo -- Going home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY JonesAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998