Summary: Lovely and amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken different paths. While Chuck moved on with his life, Buck remained emotionally immature and developed a twisted obsession for his friend, with comic and embarrassing repercussions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHUSummary: Ten year old Amanda desperately wants a dog but her Dad won't have it. When she finds a young fox, she and her friend Maggie conspire to keep it as a pet. Little do they know the trouble awaits as the fox is pursued by a pair of shady, bumbling Russians with an ulterior motive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Brom
Summary: "A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom. Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrom
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn park--murdered by drug dealers--had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGERussell, Mark
Summary: "It's 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. But success has made him a target. As he plans for his next hit play, Snagglepuss becomes the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And when powerful forces align to purge show business of its most subversive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 RUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RUSSummary: Cleaver makes a bitter enemy of the powerful new Attorney General, Cal McGregor, when Cleaver is caught having an affair with his wife. Cleaver's paramour, Missy, causes a scandal with a memoir about her life as a prostitute, and his best friend's wife, Scarlet, can't forgive Cleaver for the damage he caused to her marriage. Cleaver's legal career is just as hectic as his personal life as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INVCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009Hallwood, Cheri L.
Summary: A whimsical story in which the first snowflake of winter anticipates what will happen on his downward journey to the ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever Young Publishers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HALSummary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's 2011Bow, Erin
Summary: The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BOWSummary: For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DRYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRYSummary: On any single day, Cleaver Greene is described as many things: to jurors he is hilarious, but to must judges he is an outrage. To the tax office, he is a defendant; to a certain brothel owner, a legend; and to his former cocaine dealer, a tragic loss. His favorite clients are those that appear to be hopelessly guilty. Despite his faults, Greene's wit and charm have won him hordes of female...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAKBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBow, Erin
Summary: Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC BOWBow, Erin
Summary: Twelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWAblow, Keith R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ABLAblow, Keith R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABLAblow, Keith R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABLAblow, Keith R.
Summary: Forensic psychiatrist Dr Frank Clevenger investigates when John Snow, a brilliant inventor who has a brain disease which threatens to rob him of his mind, is found dead of a gunshot wound the day before he is due to have a pioneering operation. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABLLandstrom, Olof
Summary: Will has a gigantic package from his uncle. His friends Karen and Peter come along to the post office to pick up the package. They wonder what it can be and how are they going to get it home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R & S Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Landstrom 1994Low, William
Summary: Welcome to Chinatown. There is so much to see. People practicing tai-chi, shoe cobblers, rows of herbs, outdoor fish markets, and more. And best of all, when the Lunar New Year begins, there's a New Year's Day parade, complete with a lion dance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023