Summary: A young bullfighter is injured in the ring and the bull is killed. A little girl named Winnie gets one of the bones as a treat for her giant Great Dane; a philandering scientist and his pregnant wife receive the eyes; a taxidermist gets the horns as a gift from his mother; a Spanish woman dines on Toro en rioja in a restaurant. These stories are all woven together and shows that beneath the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARNatera, Cleyvis
Summary: "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATClover, Andrew
Summary: Ten-year-old Rory Branagan teams up with his neighbor, Cassidy Corrigan, and canine sidekick, Wilkins Welkin, to investigate his father's disappearance seven years before, but first gets caught up in neighborhood mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLOClowes, Daniel.
Summary: Andy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago, has only one friend, an angry fellow outcast named Louie. He's desperately in love with a girl he met in California who won't return his letters and he's filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. When he achieves super strength from smoking cigarettes he uses it for neither good nor evil but in a brutal playground showdown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLOBovis, Ali
Summary: Sylvie can't wait to raise money for the animal shelter for her Make a Difference Day project, but when her frenemy, Camilla, and Sylvie's foster puppy create obstacles along the way, Sylvie discovers there is more than one way to make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOVClowes, Daniel.
Summary: One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2001
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Summary: "Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He's been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he's just feeling set up. She's nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't exactly what you'd call a catch... Then, after nearly an hour, when he's long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLOClowes, Daniel
Summary: Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story--actually, stories--of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "When faced with the possible closing of her favorite beach, Sylvie first attempts a one-person coastal cleanup march on city hall, but thanks to the town clown, she realizes it will take more than one person to save the beach."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2020
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Summary: Perry loves the sounds of all of her mother's shoes, but when a new pair appears, signaling Mama's return to work, Perry becomes very upset.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVLevis, Caron
Summary: Gabby convinces Granny to leave Sleepytown and stay up all night in a new place, but before long, a contagious yawn takes control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: The letters C and K have an argument when K accuses C of stealing all the good words that start with the "k" sound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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Summary: A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVSummary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHOSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Summary: Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. Forty-six, overweight, and suffering from gout, Henry is soundly rejected by some of Europe's most eligible princesses. Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is twenty-four, and has a secret she is desperate to keep hidden. Henry commissions her portrait from his court...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIHarrelson, Woody
Summary: A middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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Summary: "In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMakatini, Bella
Summary: Danny spends a week with his Grandpa, who tells Danny about one animal from his homeland each day that he is there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAKRijken, Jelleke
Summary: When Bear's grandfather dies, Chicken and Elephant try to comfort their friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIJSummary: Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoSummary: In 1967, sisters Juliet and Evangeline are abandoned by their mother at their unsuspecting grandparents' farm in the small southern town of Fireside. Stunned by their sudden arrival, tender-hearted Walt and champion fiddler Ruby graciously stand in for the missing parents and create one blue-ribbon recipe for a loving family. Fireside, home of radio Station KOFF, kept secrets, broken promises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2021