Mount, Jane
Summary: Lotti is a shy girl who retreats into a world of books and reading, but eventually learns to make friends with other kids who share her passion, and reconnects with the real world (including her brother). Includes reading recommendations throughout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOUSummary: Mini-series about Octavius and Marc Anthony's struggle to control ancient Rome following Julius Caesar's assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: This stylish western skillfully interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PlainsmanSummary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2008Summary: Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He has three daughters and is a widower. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan's mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan's, Ruthie Draper and that she has set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DanBlount, Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWIRobinson, Michelle (Michelle Jane)
Summary: A forgetful narrator tries to tell the tale of a knight's duel with a dragon, and remembers a very important thing along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Robinson 2016Summary: Miranda, editor of "Runway" magazine, is a terror to everyone around her. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Blunt, Giles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assistant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRESummary: Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RENWake, Elliot
Summary: "Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he's got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus the scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares it bravely with the world; his fans love his honesty and positivity. But Ren has been living a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAKHiggins, Jace
Summary: Sunny the bunny is finding it hard to say goodbye to home before she leaves for sleep away camp. When she decides to try new things at camp, Sunny discovers that new things can be fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGJanke, Katelan.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes an historical note about life in America in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DASummary: "Enjoy two series of romances under one cover from authors Kimberley Comeaux and Cathy Marie Hake. First head to Springton, Texas, where two Texas belles - a pretty outcast and a shy nurse - find rattlesnakes easier to lasso than the hearts of the men they desire. Then join the Gregor brothers from Scotland - doctor, cobbler, lawman - as they settle in the Wild West, seeking wives to help them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONJaye, Lola.
Summary: A poignant and provocative story of adoption, self-discovery, and the meaning of family, Being Lara by author Lola Jaye ( By the Time You Read This ) is an unforgettable tale of three women—British mother, Nigerian birth mother, and 30-year-old daughter—the choices they made, and the fragile bond they try to create across time and continents. Intelligent and touching, Being Lara is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Jaye, Lola.
Summary: "Lara Reid knew she was an alien. What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word 'adopted'. Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake; a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYBlunt, Giles.
Summary: Algonquin Bay is rocked by an unusual number of suicides, including the wife of Detective John Cardinal, but a string of hateful anonymous notes leads him to suspect that her death had been a homicide, despite the disbelief of his colleagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUBlunt, Giles.
Summary: Discovering a shooting attack that has completely eliminated a young woman's memory, detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme pursue leads in Algonquin Bay during the height of the black fly season in order to safeguard her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Summary: The second volume in The Kent Family Chronicles, in which young Philip Kent, having escaped the murderous intentions of his half-brother in France, becomes caught up in the valor and turmoil of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1978