Summary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DELJohnson, Varian
Summary: "Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of thirteen original ghost stories, some in rhyme, by Blaise Hemingway and Jesse Reffsin, accompanied by illustrations by Chris Sasaki and Jeff Turley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GHOClement, Blaize.
Summary: Working for a new client, a pain-wracked scientist who is either insane or a genius, Floridian pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of a gate-keeper at her client's mansion; she makes the mistake of leaving the scene of the crime without saying anything to anyone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLESchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchSummary: Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It's a place that's neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's whimsical masterpiece, ranging from the impossible to the mad to the curiouser, these stories will have you absolutely off your head.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ROBShotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOFrench, Vivian.
Summary: In this deadly funny fourth Tale from the Five Kingdoms, it's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and Total Oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction French 2010Clement, Blaize.
Summary: "Pet sitter Dixie Hemingway is on the prowl again in the newest installment of Blaize Clement's classic and beloved series of cozy mysteries, now written by her son, John Clement, using Blaize's notes and ideas for future adventures. Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, THE CAT SITTER'S WHISKERS catches up with Dixie as she heads off for work one morning in the dimly lit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: When Mame, the elderly dachshund in Dixie Hemingway's care, gets away from her to investigate a mound of mulch, Dixie isn't surprised. What the dachshund digs up, however, is very surprising. The dead body she uncovers triggers a set of jolting events that puts Dixie at the center of a hunt for a psychopathic killer--a killer who believes Dixie saw him leaving the scene of the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEElbee, Viviane
Summary: Trying to teach your giraffe to ski can be difficult--especially when she only wants to fly down the Big Scary Slope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBFrench, Vivian.
Summary: While visiting his grandfather, who has a wonderful garden, Oliver learns to eat vegetables other than potatoes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FREFrench, Vivian.
Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC FREVivian, Siobhan.
Summary: Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VIVSummary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIRShaw, Vivian
Summary: "A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShaw, Vivian
Summary: "Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her family's specialty for generations. Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills -- vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAConroy, Vivian
Summary: "The mist-shrouded moors of Devon proffer a trove of delights for two vacationing zoologists--but also conceal a hoard of dark secrets reaching down to the fathomless depths of the ocean.Miss Merula Merriweather barely saved her uncle from the gallows after he was wrongly accused of murder--and now, she's left the bustle of Victorian London to recuperate in the fresh air of Dartmoor with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFrench, Vivian.
Summary: It's a fine day for dwarf watching! At least that's what Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus innocently think as they set out, unaware that Princess Marigold has honed her sights on Marcus and plans to follow him to the ends of the earth — fan, frilly petticoats, and all. As for the dwarves, it's not a fine day at all: they're overworked and underpaid, rushing to produce extra gold to make...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: High above the mountain village of Fracture, trouble is brewing. The sorceress Lady Lamorna wants a skull-studded gown of deep black velvet, but her treasure chest is empty of gold. That doesn't stop her, however, from kidnapping, blackmailing, and using more than a little magic to get what she needs. Will her plans be foiled by the heroic Gracie Gillypot, two chatty bats, a gallant (if...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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Vivian, Daisy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1986