Summary: Evan is a young American fleeing to Europe to escape his past. While back-packing along the Italian coast, everything changes during a stop at an idyllic Italian village, where he meets and instantly connects with the enchanting and mysterious Louise. A flirtatious romance begins to bloom between the two; however, Evan soon realizes that Louise has been harboring a monstrous, primordial secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SPRRoth, Vanessa
Summary: A look at the American education system through the eyes of four teachers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMEBednar, Sylvie.
Summary: In this recent compendium of the world's flags, each nation's flag is paired with facts and tidbits of history. These flags provide a window into the traditions, values, and cultures of countries around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J929.9 BEDSummary: The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETSummary: When Helen Lyle hears about a slave spirit with a hook hand said to haunt a notorious housing project, she braves the gang-ridden area to visit the site. Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist, until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, grisly slayings. The police refuse to believe Helen's story and charge her with the crimes. Now the only one who can set her free is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CANSummary: For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselvs and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHOsle, Janessa
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions showing young artists how to draw a variety of cat breeds, including Siamese, Maine Coon, Scottish Fold, and Ragdoll.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster Jr. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.2 OSLThomas, Vaneese.
Summary: Memphis blues and soul artist Vaneese Thomas pays tribute to her father R&B legend Rufus Thomas with this brand new release on Segue Records "Blues For My Father". This offering features duets with both Rufus Thomas and Carla Thomas and was inspired by the amazing career Vaneese's father enjoyed. A must have for any blues fan the world over.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Segue Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES THOBernal, Estela
Summary: On the cusp of adulthood, a 17-year-old girl escapes her abusive home and discovers a refuge in a sleepy Arizona town. Two weeks have passed since Nana's funeral. Her absence still feels raw to Lucy Sanchez, a Mexican American girl who has inherited her grandmother's love for and knowledge of cooking. Home offers little solace. Lucy's mother is a ghost of her former self; her father, meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books an imprint of Arte Público Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERGray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMasessa, Ed
Summary: "An old dog wants nothing more than to take a nap, but a musical mouse makes this impossible. Through rhyming text and a series of funny letters, the miscommunication between the two builds to a surprising ending."--Jacket flap
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MASEvers, Medgar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Civitas 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EVERS, MEDGAR EVEHelou, Anissa
Summary: "In Feast...Anissa Helou--an authority on the cooking of North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East--shares her extraordinary range of beloved, time-tested recipes and stories from cuisines throughout the Muslim world. Helou has lived and traveled widely in this region, from Egypt to Syria, Indonesia to Pakistan, gathering some of its countries' finest and most flavorful recipes for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 HELBlack, Vanessa
Summary: "Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers to the science behind avalanches. Includes map, infographics, activity, glossary, and index."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2017
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Summary: "Growing up as the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, teenaged Mercedes Martinez knows a world of maids, armed guards, and private drivers. When she falls in love with Manuel, a fiery young activist with a passion for his faith and his country, she begins to understand the suffering of the desplazados who share her land. A startling discovery about her father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLADiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIFKroening, Vanessa
Summary: "Want to spin your own beautiful yarn? Expert spinner Vanessa Kroening shows you how in this easy introduction to spinning with a drop spindle. No need to invest in an expensive spinning wheel. Expert spinner Vanessa Kroening shows you how to spin in this wonderfully accessible introduction to spinning with a drop spindle. Vanessa explains how to: clean and prepare fleece for spinning; what to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Search Press 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 746.12 KROPeters, Vanessa
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PETRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoeder, Vanessa
Summary: Using a cardboard box as his home when he is born without a shell, Terrance the turtle enjoys the uniqueness and versatility of his home until another turtle’s insensitive remarks make him question his differences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020