Summary: Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUG
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUG

Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUS

Leonard, Marcia.

Summary: A young bear enjoys being outside during all four seasons, whether he is playing in the spring rain, wading in his pool in the summer, picking pumpkins in the fall, or sledding in the winter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Troll Associates 1990

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Leonard 1990

Mercia, Leonard S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 MER

Mercia, Leonard S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1990

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.5 MER

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: Too-Tall and the gang amuse themselves at Sister's expense by warning her how hard third grade will be and how strict Teacher Jane is. Brother tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Sis not to worry. Mama reminisces about Sister starting kindergarten and reflects on how her daughter's feelings back then were exactly the same. Sure enough, when sister starts grade three she enjoys the new...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BER

Leonardo

Summary: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known. Artist, draftsman, inventor, and philosopher, his contributions to modern society are profound and wide-reaching. Throughout his life, Leonardo kept dozens of notebooks, elegant studies on topics ranging from architecture to botany to philosophy--indeed nearly anything of which the human imagination...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal 2005

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 LEO

Leonardo

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 LEO

Leonardo

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reynal 0000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 LEO

Levin, Leonard D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Legend Co. 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 653.15 LEV

Summary: The cubs are excited about going on a family trip, until they find out the destination is a tour of Bear Country₂s National Parks! Mama reassures the cubs and reminds them that if they keep an open mind about new experiences, it could lead to a world of adventure. Then, join the Bear family for five other stories as they try to cook a special dinner, build a big red kite, and more!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv Be

Summary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIR

Summary: Investigates the theory that the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine had been orchestrated by the Soviet Union as a screen for the decommissioning of the Duga (i.e., Woodpecker) ballistic missle advance warning system (based in the vicinity of the reactor) because of the inevitable change in relations between Ukraine and what was soon to become post-Cold War Russia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RUS

Summary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SHE

Silvera, Adam

Summary: "In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. Its the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SIL

Summary: Nate suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic just weeks before departing for college. As Nate tries to adjust to his new life challenges, his mother helps him bring home an unlikely service animal, Gigi, a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Nate and Gigi form an unbreakable bond, but when it's threatened by a group trying to outlaw capuchins, Nate's family rallies behind...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIG

Coltrane, John

Contents: India (previously unreleased) -- Chasin' the Trane -- Impressions -- Spiritual -- Miles' mode -- Naima -- Brazilia -- Chasin' another Trane -- India -- Spiritual -- Softly, as in a morning sunrise -- Chasin' the Trane -- Greensleeves -- Impressions -- Spiritual -- Naima (previously unreleased) -- Impressions -- India -- Greensleeves -- Miles' mode (previously unreleased)-- India -- Spiritual.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COL

Summary: A former United States Air Force general and three other convicts escape from a military prison. The four men take over a nuclear base and proceed to hold America hostage, threatening to launch the base's missiles if they don't receive ten million dollars and if the president fails to release a top-secret document on the Vietnam War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWI

Summary: A collection of short stories by diverse authors that explores acts of bravery by heroes trying to make the world a better place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HER

Garcia, Joaquin

Summary: Documents the true story of an undercover FBI agent who assumed the role of a mobster in order to infiltrate the Gambino crime syndicate, in an account that describes how he was groomed within the Mafia itself to understand its operations and attitudes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.106 GAR

Summary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL