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Summary: A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEL

Samana

Contents: Melancholy heat -- Live for the road -- The spirit moving -- The beach -- Patience -- All one breath -- Passing me by -- Leaving -- Begin again

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SAM

Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: "Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trata solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. "Distancia de rescate" sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SCH

Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: "The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCH

Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: "A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017

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Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: "A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv,bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

Cardillo, Linda.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAR

Cardillo, Linda.

Summary: From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family, and friends. Her daughter Toni tried to create her own life, outside that circle--only to return with her own daughter when her marriage failed. Now that her daughter, Vanessa, is nearly grown, Toni must face the bitterness of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAR

Pattillo, Beth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAT

Castillo, Elaine

Summary: "How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter--the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Castillo 2018

Castillo, Linda

Summary: Amish elders ask Kate Burkholder to investigate the murder of a bishop. But the prime suspect is Jonas Bowman, her first love, and soon Kate fears she may be too close to the case to see clearly.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CAS

Castillo, Linda

Summary: Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAS

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CAS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Cas

Castillo, Linda.

Summary: When a tornado tears through Painters Mill and unearths human remains, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself tasked with the responsibility of identifying the bones, and notifying the family. Evidence quickly emerges that the death was no accident and Kate finds herself plunged into a thirty year old case that takes her deep into the Amish community to which she once belonged.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAS

Castillo, Linda.

Summary: When the corpses of model Amish farmers are first discovered, their deaths appear to be accidental. But when evidence to the contrary surfaces, Kate Burkholder is determined to catch the culprit.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAS

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD MYS CAS

Castillo, Linda.

Summary: The New York Times bestselling series hailed as "gripping" ( People magazine) and "compelling" ( USA Today ) returns with Police Chief Kate Burkholder called to the scene of a horrific tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm. The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011

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Castillo, Linda.

Summary: An Amish town is haunted by the ghosts of its past as Police Chief Kate Burkholder untangles a dangerous web.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAS

J Costillo S Yradier

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Calumet 1935

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

N Sarradell J Costillo

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Calumet 1935

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Cashill, Jack

Summary: "In Untenable, Cashill broadens the canvas to tell the story of his neighborhood and others like it. His is the first serious book on the subject of 'white flight' written from the perspective of those forced to flee. Cashill and the scores of people he interviewed speak candidly about race, schools, and crime--subjects that are essential to any honest understanding of the issue. Like J.D....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.3362 CAS

Lang, Acantha

Contents: Sugar woman -- Come back home -- Beautiful dreams -- Eventually -- He said/She said -- Interlude: A word from my momma -- Lois Lang -- River keep runnin' -- It's gonna be alright -- Carry the weight -- Whatever happened to our love? -- Keep on -- Ride this train (extended version).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LAN

Casilla, Robert

Summary: "This bilingual picture book for kids recalls Major League Baseball pitcher Mariano Rivera's childhood in Panama, his fascination with playing ball-even if he had to make his glove out of cardboard-and his eventual signing with the New York Yankees, where he helped win five World Series"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books/Arte Público Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB 468 CAS Spanish/English

Castillo, Ana.

Summary: Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tia Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo's father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over form Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

Castillo, Lauren

Summary: "When a young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city, the girl feels fine on her own. She would rather play by herself than meet new kids at the park or have a playdate with the other children in her building. And when her mom takes her to story time at the bookstore, she breaks down in tears. But things start to change when she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAS

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAS

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