Summary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF KiSummary: A young man at the peak of his career believes that he is a vampire after being bitten by "the woman of his dreams" on their first date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VAMSummary: Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMGala, Marcial
Summary: "The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSummary: The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDSummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELMarcks, Ira
Summary: When a Hollywood director starts filming a blockbuster action film on the otherwise sleepy island of Martha's Vineyard, thirteen-year-old Gayle and her friends set out to make their own film and solve an island mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Super Happy Party Bears are super. They are really happy. And they love to have a party. These bears are happy all the time--but their neighbors in the Grumpy Woods are grumpy all the time. Mayor Quill, Opal Owl, and the others are cranky pants, and they never want to join the party. Can the Super Happy Party Bears win the day by throwing a party?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Summary: A funny chapter book series filled with full-color illustrations and adorable animals! It's the most wonderful time of the year in the Grumpy Woods--the Great Hibernation! Mayor Quill, Humphrey Hedgehog, and the rest of the animals are looking forward to some much-needed rest, but the Super Happy Party Bears want to add more YAY to the holiday--by delivering homemade presents! When the critters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLLColleen, Marcie
Summary: "Flying Blind. The bat-only punk rock band. Coming to the Grumpy Woods. The Super Happy Party Bears love rock 'n' roll! The other Grumpy Woods residents do not. To them, this "music" sounds like BOOM! BOOM! REEN-REEN-WAAAHHHHH! And the band's nighttime shows are keeping everyone awake! When the bears join the band and get groovin', the rest of the Grumpy Woods townscritters go undercover to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Summary: The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLLieberman, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIEColleen, Marcie
Summary: "The Grumpy Woods residents find Wallace Woodpecker's pecking preposterously loud, but the bears think Wallace is beating a nice rhythm--it is great for early-morning dancercise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2016
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Summary: Circle and Square are best friends when the cool and exciting Triangle comes along, causing some conflict and making them reconsider how their friendship works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLMaxfield, Marcie
Summary: Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXSummary: 1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MARBiaggio, Maryka
Summary: Standing trial for extortion in 1917, beautiful con artist May Dugas recounts her version of the events that led to her arrest, from her reluctant residence in a famous Chicago bordello and her insinuation into high society to her world travels as a seductress and blackmailer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIACerato, Mattia
Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERLucier, Makiia
Summary: When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCMarais, Bianca
Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARParciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARFuentes, Marcela
Summary: "A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019