Summary: "This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe (This Is My Dream) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers--Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EYICinthie
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC CINSummary: A 'rescue team' lands on the island and the survivors gear up to go home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSBrown, Cyntoia
Summary: "In her own words, Cyntoia Brown shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction." -- Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, CYNTOIA BROSaint James, Synthia.
Summary: A simple explanation of this new holiday created in 1966, showing how it has quickly become an important African-American celebration and is even celebrated around the world today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE SAISummary: In "Belle's Friendship Invention," Belle meets a young inventor who has created a paper-making machine; and in "Tiana's Friendship Fix-Up," Tiana and her best friend Charlotte find a way to spend time together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Ebine, Kazuki.
Summary: The life of a true twentieth-century hero told in a vibrant graphic novel format. Through his quietly powerful leadership and influential use of nonviolent resistance in India's struggle against the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi became one of the most revered figures of the modern era. While history has recorded Gandhi's words and deeds, the man himself has been eclipsed by maxims of virtuosity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Dai, Sijie
Summary: After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to bring the benefits of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China and to somehow free his college sweetheart, now a political prisoner, a quest that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAIDai, Sijie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Barnes, Emilie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.43 BARDufresne, Emilie
Summary: The science of magnets is explained in an exciting and unique way as readers encounter colorful illustrations that are paired with achievable text and eye-catching fact boxes. The bright and bold design of this helpful guide to an important STEM topic features concise and clear labels that add context and clarity to the illustrated fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 538 DUFDufresne, Emilie
Summary: We're all familiar with sounds-quiet sounds, loud sounds, high sounds, and low sounds. But how do those sounds reach our ears? Readers explore the science behind sounds in this delightful illustrated guide. The bright and bold illustrations are paired with simple text that breaks down complicated science curriculum concepts and provides readers with relatable examples of the science of sound at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 534 DUFRichards, Emilie
Summary: As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RICDufresne, Emilie
Summary: Racism is a complex issue that still affects many in the diverse United States and world. This book helps readers understand this problem from the roots of racial identities to what is being done today to stand up to racism and help people affected by it. Vibrant photographs, diagrams, and a timeline of the U.S. civil rights movement enhance the approachable text. This book helps students...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 DUFHebert, Emilie
Summary: "Why trust your baby's care--or your own--to the chemical-laden products with unpronounceable names on supermarket shelves? The fantastic guide to feeling good and looking good that upcoming and new French mothers rely on to care for themselves and theirlittle ones is now in English for the very first time. Inside you'll find more than forty tried-and-true original, stress-free recipes to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 HEBRichards, Emilie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M RICRichards, Emilie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSchindler, Emilie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SCHO'Brien, Cynthia (Cynthia J.)
Summary: Provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of world records in pop culture, sports, science, and other categories, each with a photograph.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Dufresne, Emilie
Summary: We need electricity to turn on the lights, charge our phones, and watch TV. Where does electricity come from, and how does it make all these things work? The answers to these questions and more are shown to readers in this handy guide to an essential early science curriculum topic. Age-appropriate text and eye-catching fact boxes present information in a clear and concise way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 DUFRichards, Emilie
Summary: Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RICRichards, Emilie
Summary: "All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy's achievements, she didn't even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice. Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters' choices have taken them in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M RICRichards, Emilie
Summary: When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, four women warily join forces to find his family. Together, they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they love-- and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009