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Brothers and sisters Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction Graphic novels Married people Fiction Medical drama Social acceptance Comic books, strips, etc Social acceptance Juvenile fiction Syrians United States Juvenile fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction West Virginia FictionSummary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VISSummary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Maddox, Jake
Summary: Recently resettled in America, Adnan Zakaria is a Syrian refugee whose skateboarding ability is the only thing that allows him to make a connection with the other kids in his neighborhood--but when his skateboard disappears and turns up in the possession of a local troublemaker Adnan will have to out-skate his foe in order to win it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A small-time casanova with no political convictions and fewer brains shoots his sister's pimp to save the family honor. He is caught, tried, sent to an insane asylum, volunteers for the Italian army and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp, where he learns to survive at any cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVSnyder, Scott
Summary: Batman struggles to keep the peace when Commissioner Gordon is arrested, a situation that is further complicated by a new power structure in Gotham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SICSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONFabre, Dominique
Summary: Pierre, a lifelong Parisian waiter, watches people come and go, sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside too much; he prefers to let the world come to him. When the caf goes under, Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thought over three days, Pierre's humanity and profound solitude are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMFabry, Chris
Summary: When real-estate agent Elizabeth Jordan meets elderly widow Clara Williams, a visit to the elder woman's prayer room helps Elizabeth realize that her mounting problems at home are surmountable with the help of God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FABEberstadt, Fernanda
Summary: Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, who lives with her unmarried mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, in a farmhouse compound with other single-parent families. Rat is the result of a one-night encounter between Vanessa and Gillem, the son of a London model from the 1960s, who used to spend summers in the area and whom Rat has never spoken to or met. But when Vanessa's current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEMelchor, Fernanda
Summary: "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELFabry, Chris
Summary: Billy, a gifted mandolin player in Dogwood, West Virginia, lives his life as an offering to his divine creator. Malachi is an angel sent to observe Billy. He begins to see the bigger picture of how each painful step Billy takes is a note added to a beautiful symphony that will forever change the lives of those who hear it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABSummary: François Ozon's gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, the film compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BYSummary: Spain, 1931 is a politically divided nation and on the brink of war. With allegiances torn between Republican and Traditionalist factions, Fernando, a disillusioned soldier, has chosen a third option, going AWOL. Fate intervenes during his escape when he meets Manolo, an admiring land owner who sees himself mirrored in the young man and welcomes him into his home, a home inhabited by Manolo's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELFerland, Lisa
Summary: "The magic of the forest is calling. Birds sing, twigs snap, and leaves rustle. What's up ahead? Is it a butterfly or another animal behind that tree? Come along on this wondrous adventure in the great outdoors. Let your imagination run wild." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Lisa Ferland] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Ferland 2020Vilela, Fernando
Summary: "Cauã and Inaê are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat -- even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cauã and Inaê realize they've left behind something important: their pet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VILFabry, Chris
Summary: Small towns have long memories and the people of Dogwood West Virginia will never forgive Will Hatfield for what happened. Still he returns, intent on pursuing the only woman he has ever loved - only to find there is far more standing in his way than lost years in prison. Karin has buried her shattered dreams by settling for a faithful husband whose emotional distance leaves her isolated. Soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FABSummary: Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAKFarland, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARFabry, Chris
Summary: Will returns to Dogwood intent on pursuing Karin, the only woman he has ever loved--only to find there is far more standing in his way than lost years in prison. The secrets of Will and Karin's past emerge through a young boy who wishes he hadn't survived the tragedy that knit those two together and then tore them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABFabry, Chris
Summary: "When eccentric millionaire Gideon Quidley receives a divine revelation to hide his earthly treasure somewhere in the hills, he sets out to find a fitting hiding spot, choosing only a few Bible verses as clues leading to untold riches of gold, silver, cash, and one very unexpected, and very costly, item. Treasure hunters descend upon the hills of West Virginia, including those surrounding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABFabry, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fabry 2014Summary: Shortly after the civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006