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Aptitude Bandes dessinées Bilingual books Colonies de vacances Bandes dessinées Dystopies Bandes dessinées Dystopies Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Guinea pigs Fiction Habiletés de survie Bandes dessinées Humorous stories Picture books Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009 FictionSummary: Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEPDumas, Luke
Summary: "Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMPearson, Luke
Summary: "The city of Trolberg has yet more secrets to unravel in an adventure where Hilda discovers her world is not quite held together in the way she thought it was. Hilda is sat in her tent, dwarfed by volumes of the Greater Fjords Wildlife Chronicles with a flashlight and her restless companion, Twig. But Hilda's not in the Fjords and it isn't raining. Hilda's pitched a tent in her room and it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd. 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Single mom Lizzie Beauman is encouraging when her young daughter unexpectedly befriends a widower named Walter as part of her Mission: Find a Friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoArudpragasam, Anuk
Summary: "A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUNeuhaus, Nele.
Summary: "The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEURuiz-Flores, Lupe
Summary: Lupita is excited about dancing la raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day. But she's devastated when she learns right before the show that her partner Ernesto sprained his right ankle. She had been practicing for weeks. And now her family won't get to see her, swishing and swaying in her beautiful dress full of colorful ribbons. Lupita sadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Flowers, Luke.
Summary: Moby Shinobi loves working at Pet Fest Day. Can his ninja skills help when a snake gets away?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FLODuke, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DUKHume, Virginia
Summary: "A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline. In 1944, Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond her family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMMacDonald, Suse.
Summary: Follow the leader and count the fish that live beneath the sea, then turn the book upside-down and count back down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2007
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MACNeuhaus, Nele.
Summary: "On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEUNuño, Fran
Summary: "There are places that remind us of happy moments. Zoe, a little girl who has to flee from her city with her family because of a war, remembers them before she leaves. She uses them to draw a 'map of good memories,' knowing that they will always be with her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Nuno 2017Summary: "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 LONMoulton, Deke
Summary: Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat... just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family. Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOUYuzuhara, Moke
Summary: "The second floor of the gym. That's our spot. Class is in session right now, but they don't hold class in a place like this. This is where Shimamura and I became friends. What is this feeling? Yesterday, I dreamed of kissing her. I'm not like that, and I'm sure Shimamura isn't either. But...when Shimamura thinks of the word friend, I want to be the first thing that comes to her mind. That's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ADADuke, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DUKDuke, Kate.
Summary: "A classroom guinea pig learns about gardening by growing his own pumpkin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E DUKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUKArudpragasam, Anuk
Summary: "Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world. This extraordinary debut is of that class." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUNunez, Elizabeth
Summary: Retiring in Barbados, widower Peter Ducksworth concludes he must divide his land between his three daughters. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, he declares that she receive hers only after his death and so sets in motion a discord in the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNDuke, Gloria
Summary: "Dumplin' meets True Blood in this paranormal romantic comedy from debut author Gloria Duke. Lily Baines is a plus size girl trying to deal with internalized sizeism, a well-meaning but critical mother, and a world determined not to take fat people seriously. She figures things can't get any harder...until she's turned into a vampire. Now she's left to grapple with a whole new crop of problems,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUKSummary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AIRGude, Paul
Summary: Quiet Giraffe and chatty Elephant have a friendship that sees them through misunderstanding, disappointment, and an interesting surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Hyperion Books 2015