Summary: Irene is with her elderly paramour, on the Riviera, to celebrate her birthday. When he falls asleep on her, she decides to slip down to the hotel bar. There, she mistakes barman Jean for a wealthy guest. He encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. The following year, the same thing happens. This time her lover finds out and disowns her. Knowing Jean is a barman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THAFad, Scott.
Summary: After twenty years of self-imposed exile, Boo Taylor finds he must return to Sweetpatch Island, South Carolina, following his father's mysterious death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: River Groove Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADAdamson, Ged
Summary: Bernard isn't like other birds. His wings are impossibly long, and try as he might, he just can't seem to fly. He's left wondering what his wings are good for ... if they're even good for anything at all. But a chance encounter with a dejected orangutan leads Bernard to a surprising discovery: that maybe what makes him different is actually something to be embraced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADAGal, Susan.
Summary: A dog gives many good reasons it likes to go for a walk--to chase away the neighbor's cat, to greet people on the street, to watch guys shooting hoops, and to feel the wind lifting its ears.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALAdamson, Ged
Summary: Brian loves dinosaurs. When he discovers that frogs were around when dinosaurs were alive, he decides that makes him a dinosaur―a Brianosaurus, in fact. At first, it’s fun. But his woodland friends think he should roar all the time, not use trampolines or read books. And the frogs think he’s making the pond look bad. So Brianosaurus decides to act exactly the way they want. The trouble is, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2024
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Summary: "As the seasons change, the industrious pigs of Day by Day build a home, plant a garden, help their neighbors, and then gather in a harvest grown with hard work and kindness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALAdamson, Ged
Summary: When a little fox finds a radio, he shares the songs and music with his animal friends, but after it goes quiet, the little fox begins to hear the music found in nature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADAKhadivi, Laleh
Summary: "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAJaffari, Laleh
Summary: "When the rain comes the elephant likes to put up his umbrella and invite his friends underneath. One day the umbrella is swept away by the wind and meets the leopard and the bear, who have very different ideas about how to use the umbrella."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAFGag, Wanda
Summary: How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GAG BASKETAdamson, Ged
Summary: After visiting the eye doctor, a near-sighted dog gets glasses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADAAdamson, Ged
Summary: "When Maude moves to a new town, everything feels okay. Things would feel just right if only she had a friend. So, Maude draws a blue puppy and names him Scribbly. He plays catch, takes naps, but most importantly, Scribbly teaches Maude the importance of staying true to herself and gives her the courage to meet new friends, both human and four-legged"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "When Andy Baumhower plows his van into ex-cop Joe Reddick's car late one night after dumping a body in the LA River, one of his three accomplices to murder thinks the best way to ensure Reddick's silence regarding the accident is to threaten his estranged wife and young son with a K-bar knife. Bad mistake. Because Joe Reddick's lived the nightmare of losing a family to a crazed killer once,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRAGadot, Gal
Summary: An ordinary suburban couple becomes involved in an international espionage plot when they discover their impossibly beautiful and sophisticated new neighbors are covert operatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KEE RATED PG-13Gal, Susan.
Summary: A child describes the wonders observed during a family camping trip to the mountains in a story that introduces the reader to prepositions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALGal, Susan.
Summary: While preparing for bedtime, a little girl and her dog note all the different kinds of lights that brighten up the night, from headlights to moonlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: When his old friend R.J. Burrow is brutally murdered in Los Angeles, Errol "Handy" White must return from exile to attend the funeral, certain that a terrible secret is about to reveal itself. Twenty-six years earlier, Hand, R.J. and O'Neal Holden were three young thieves who pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy's been waiting to pay for it with his life ever since. Both the police...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHills, Tad
Summary: Duck and Goose learn to work together to take care of a ball, which they think is an egg.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: "Rocket loves chasing butterflies, but when one flies into the dark forest, will Rocket follow?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Goose is more interested in skating, sledding, and making snow angels than in helping Duck decorate their big Christmas tree. On board pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2010
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: BRD HILWilliams, Tad
Summary: The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions. Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger from every side. Their allies in Hernystir have made a pact with the dreadful Queen of the Norns to allow her armies to cross into mortal lands. The ancient, powerful nation of Nabban is on the verge of bloody civil...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2019