Summary: A collection of 9 films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growing as above, so below, growing into your future and your past rather than forgetfully forward. These films deny the idea of art for art's sake and do not exist in self-designed aesthetic vacuums. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOHilmar, Hera
Summary: A young woman seeking revenge for her mother's death sets out to destroy London, a massive city on wheels in a post-apocalytpic world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2019
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MORSummary: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMPStoeve, Ray
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey finds escape in her love of film photography as she navigates toxic relationships and how they influence her identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOStoeve, Ray
Summary: Dean Foster has watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure he's a trans guy. But everyone at his high school thinks he's a lesbian-- including his girlfriend Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a "nontraditional" Romeo. Maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come out. But as he plays Romeo every day in rehearsals, Dean realizes he wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOStivers, Carole
Summary: "In this mind-bending debut novel, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. It is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STIUegaki, Chieri
Summary: Hana decides to play violin in the school talent show, but when the show day arrives, Hana is overcome with nerves until she recalls her grandfather's encouraging words, and shows the audience how beautiful music can take many forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UEGUegaki, Chieri.
Summary: Tired of her baby sister always getting in her way, Rosie gives Buttercup to her babysitter, Oscar, but when she finally has the house to herself, Rosie realizes how much fun her sister really is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2008
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Summary: ""Illusions" blurs the line between fiction and reality as the illegitimate child of an influential mafia member shares her life and perspective of history over the span of fifty years. A life defined by murder, identity theft, CIA assassins, sex, drug-dealers, gun-runners, and a young adult who would travel the East Coast--running away from her past while searching to belong in a life that was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Major 2016Stace, Wesley
Summary: With his band promised fame as rock stars with the caveat that their audience will mostly be young children, Blake Lear--the band's lead singer, songwriter, and mad genius--takes America by storm and succumbs to temptation as witnessed by his impulsivelyadopted son, Sweet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASteil, Jennifer
Summary: "An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEChilders, Ambyr
Summary: When an artificial robot at a resort where customers live out their fantasies becomes self-aware and escapes, she is caught between the owner of the resort and a cop who is trying to shut down the resort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICChilders, Erskine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seafarer 1998
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Summary: From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEUegaki, Chieri
Summary: "A young girl finds a way to give the gift of a traditional Japanese garden back to her beloved grandfather and accept a difficult change."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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Summary: "Bird builds the perfect nest, the only problem is everyone else wants to sleep in it!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: "A spunky young girl decides to sell lemonade on a hot summer day, venturing out all the way to the river's end where she finds some unexpected and fantastical clientele"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEStage, Zoje
Summary: "One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence - and madness. After years of city life, Orla and Shaw Bennett are ready for the quiet of New York's Adirondack mountains - or at least, they think they are. Settling into the perfect farmhouse with their two children, they are both charmed and unsettled by the expanse of their land, the privacy of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASteck, Ryan
Summary: Waiting to be deployed on a critical mission, elite Marine Raider Matthew Redd stops to help a stranger and wakes up hours later to learn his team was wiped out in an ambush. Unable to remember anything, Redd can't deny the possibility that he's somehow responsible for the information leak that led to the massacre. He's given a deal to avoid a charge of treason, but it means walking away from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteed, Neville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESterer, Gideon
Summary: A clever magician teaches young readers his most top-secret tricks as he disappears and reappears throughout the book's pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STESummary: Will Parker arrives in the small town of Whitney, after spending five years in Huntsville Prison for killing someone in La Grange, Texas. Through an ad in the local paper, Will discovers that Emily, a recently widowed mother of two small boys, is actively looking for a husband and father. Star-crossed loners, Will and Emily decide to make a go of their collective plight and Will moves into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Timeless Media Group 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Morning 2007Summary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUSSteen, Sandra.
Summary: While sitting inside their car, two children enjoy the soapy sights and watery sounds of the car wash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001