Summary: "In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit Di happily recounts her experiences to Vietnamese filmmaker Diễm Hà Lệ, who planted herself within Di's family over the course of three years to document this unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: Kathy gets evicted from her home for failing to pay a tax she never should have been charged to pay in the first place. The house is swiftly put up for auction and bought by a former military officer from Iran named Behrani. When legal efforts fail her, Kathy turns to a sympathetic cop who wants out of a loveless marriage and who is willing to step over legal boundaries if it might give him the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie House 2004Summary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSwans
Contents: CD. Lunacy -- Mother of the world -- The wolf -- The seer -- The seer returns -- 93 Ave. B blues -- The daughter brings the water -- Song for a warrior -- Avatar -- A piece of the sky -- The apostate-- --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Young God 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SWASummary: The Saugatuck dunes, on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, are a refuge for wildlife and for people. In the early twenty-first century, the endurance of their grassy hills, forested ridges, and the cool river that winds among them is something of a miracle. This ever-changing land- and seascape, with its white beaches and shifting patterns of light, has captured the imaginations of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SAUSummary: Much ado about nothing ... contrasts the happiness of lovers Claudio and Hero and the cynicism of sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick, who are united in their scorn for love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2012
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MUCTubes
Contents: She's a beauty -- Tip of my tongue -- Talk to ya later -- Sushi girl -- Don't want to wait anymore -- Bora Bora 2000/Love bomb -- No not again -- The monkey time -- Sports fans -- Come as you are -- Piece by piece -- Attack of the fifty foot woman -- When you're ready to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capital 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TUBDupuy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 1994
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUPSwann, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.132 SWASwann, Christopher
Summary: After his estranged brother and sister-in-law die in a mysterious house fire that his niece escaped, a mourning professor is shocked into action when she shows up at his house being chased by the criminals who set the blaze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASwan, Shanna H.
Summary: "In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe-but the story didn't end there. It turns out our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 SWASwann, Christopher
Summary: "How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate--and to become the man he is meant to be In the middle of his senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASwann, Donald
Contents: At the drop of a hat. A transport of delight -- Song of reproduction -- The gnu song -- Design for living -- Je suis les ténébrux -- Songs for our time. Philological waltz ; Satellite moon ; A happy hour -- A song of the weather -- The reluctant cannibal -- Greensleeves -- Misalliance -- Kokoraki -- Madeira m'dear -- Too many cookers -- Vanessa -- Tried by the Centre Court -- The youth of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL FLAMeralli, Swann
Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MERSwann, Stacey
Summary: "The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms, and is no stranger to infidelity herself; she's tired of being the long-suffering wife thanks to her husband's many affairs. Within days of March's arrival, someone is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWADubus, Andre
Summary: "The 1986 highway accident that resulted in Dubus being largely confined to a wheelchair is an event that is by now familiar to readers of his award-winning short stories (Dancing After Hours, etc.) and previous collection of personal essays (Broken Vessels, 1991). In these 25 spare and luminous essays, most of which have previously appeared in magazines like the New Yorker, Harper's and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? Can he find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: After their parents divorce in the 1970's, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed, or killing someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUBUS, ANDRE DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: Collection of fourteen short stories which explore the mysteries of everyday life by an award winning contemporary American author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: The focus of this collection, which includes the often praised tale "A Father's Story," as well as the novella "the Pretty Girl," is on the twisting deformations of love, on domestic disturbances, and on marriages whose sanctity can no longer bind them. --Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDubus, Andre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023