Summary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRMahmoud, Lena
Summary: Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHFaye, Gaël
Summary: In Burundi in 1992, ten-year-old Gabriel enjoys carefree days with his friends, but his idyllic existence and his innocence come to a brutal end when Burundi and neighboring Rwanda are hit by civil war and genocide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYMahmood, Imran
Summary: "Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MAH1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Fad, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: River Groove Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADMahiout, Anouk
Summary: "As the eldest child in a large family, Pauline struggles to find her niche, and she longs for peace and quiet -- a charming graphic novel. Pauline lives with her mother, father, little brother and sister, and there's a new baby on the way. Her friends tell her she's lucky to be the eldest -- she's the one who gets new clothes and can stay up late -- but Pauline isn't so sure. In her busy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAHSummary: A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOT RATED PG-13Fader, Molly.
Summary: Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADGadol, Peter
Summary: "Rebecca's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the "stranger game," a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GADMcHenry, Jael.
Summary: Seeking comfort in traditional family culinary practices after the early deaths of her parents, twenty-six-year-old Asperger's patient Ginny struggles with her domineering sister's decision to sell the house, troubling secrets, and the ghost of a dead ancestor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCHSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUFahy, Warren.
Summary: A ruthless Russian tycoon lures biologists Nell and Geoffrey to his underground metropolis, where they are confronted by a vicious menagerie of biological horrors that are rising up to consume the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAHFalls, Kat.
Summary: Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- - lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FALFane, Julian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dales 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FANFaqir, Fadia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAQFast, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASTKade, Stacey.
Summary: Never trust anyone. Remember they are always searching. Don't get involved. Keep your head down. Don't fall in love. Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane's survival-and that of her adoptive father-depends on her ability to blend in among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2013
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Parrett, Favel
Summary: Isla is a lonely girl who moves to Hobart with her mother and brother to try and better their lives. It's not really working until they meet Bo, a crewman on an Antarctic supply ship, the Nella Dan, who shares stories about his adventures with them--his travels, bird watching, home in Denmark, and life on board the ship. Isla is struggling to learn what truly matters and who to trust; and this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARFell, Blair
Summary: "Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELFama, Elizabeth.
Summary: In an alternate United States where Day and Night populations are forced to lead separate--but not equal--lives, a desperate Night girl falls for a seemingly privileged Day boy and places them both in danger as she gets caught up in the beginnings of a resistance movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FAMGael, Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAENesti, Fido
Summary: One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ORWBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Wormwords invade the school, draining the students' mental energy and causing them to repeat themselves, so the Librarian works to exterminate the pests before they zombify the students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023