Summary: An older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter is disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem. He wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOMSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation ... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Scanlon, Elizabeth Garton
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text explore a community garden and what grows there, from flowers and fruit to friendships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCASimone.
Contents: Começar de novo = To begin again : The island (3:42) -- Canôa canôa = Canoe, canoe (3:51) -- Reis e rainhas do Maracatu = Kings and queens of Maracatu (2:55) -- Então vale a pena = Then it was worth it (4:07) -- Itamarandiba (3:16) -- Pedaço de mim = Piece of me (3:49) -- Face a face = Face to face (4:29) -- Tô voltando = I'm returning (3:56) -- Valso rancho = Carnival waltz (3:26) -- Cigarra =...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI-Odeon 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SIMKing, Stephen
Summary: "In If It Bleeds, King gives listeners four brilliant new stories sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King's remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, fan favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider -- this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," an intergenerational friendship...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINSummary: Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town's tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired by the parents of one of the victims to find their son's killer, Veronica is drawn into an eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave's wealthy elites who would like to put an end to the bacchanalia against the working class that relies on the cash influx.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VERCiraolo, Simona
Summary: "He's not the type to stand out. In fact, unless you were looking for him, you wouldn't know he was missing at all. But you know us, the shy ones, we can always spot one another. This delicate picture book about a quiet little octopus that keeps to himself in a school of lively fish explores the topic of shyness and friendship"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CIRGattone, Toni
Summary: "Adapted gardening expert Toni Gattone shares her proven methods for your favorite hobby easier on your aging body in The Lifelong Gardener. Inspired by her own physical needs, Master Gardener Gattone shares simple solutions -- from vertical growing to bins on wheels -- that will help you work smarter, not harder. And her message of empowerment will stir you to find joy in your garden for years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.084 GATSimont, Marc.
Summary: A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SIMGratton, Tessa.
Summary: This page-turning debut novel will entice fans who like their paranormal romances dark and disturbing. It's a natural next-read for fans of Stephanie Meyer, Carrie Jones, and Becca Fitzpatrick. But instead of mythical creatures, blood magic has everything to do with primal human desires like power, wealth, and immortality. Everywhere Silla Kennicott turns she sees blood. She can't stop thinking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Adaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAGratton, Tessa
Summary: Dynasties battle for the crown...Three daughter, one crown, all out war; Gaela is a ruthless commander, Regan is a master manipulator and Elia is a star-blessed priest. The island is at risk and an empire is poised for ruin; the line of Lear will be soaked in blood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABurke, James Lee
Summary: Returning to his Louisiana hometown to investigate a murder, detective Dave Robicheaux finds his skills pushed to their limits when his best friend is accused and his daughter becomes involved in shady business dealings.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURFantoni, Barry.
Summary: Harry Lipkin, the world's oldest private investigator, takes on the case of Norma Weinberger, a wealthy woman whose belongings are being pilfered by one of her staff, people she employs, trusts, cares for, and treats like family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANGratton, Tessa
Summary: "STRIKE FAST, LOVE HARD, LIVE FOREVER This is the motto of the Lady Knights--sworn to fealty under a struggling kingdom, promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora. But when a fearsome rebellion overthrows the throne, Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love, and allow a king-killer to be rewarded--or retake the throne, and take up arms...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASantoni, Manuela
Summary: "Before she was the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice and other classic novels, Jane Austen was a young woman wrestling with society's expectations and challenges of the heart. Her own story involves choices that changed literary history--and perhaps even the choice to walk away from love. This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 AUSSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOElkeles, Simone.
Summary: Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2011
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Elkeles, Simone.
Summary: Flux's First New York Times Bestseller! From the New York Times Bestselling Author of RULES OF ATTRACTION comes the sequel to LEAVING PARADISE Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything. Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and disappeared. Somehow, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD. 2010
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Muench, Simone
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Helicon Nine Editions 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 MUENathan, Simone.
Summary: "Tommy joins Sophie's family as they eat latkes, light candles in the menorah, and play with dreidels next to their dazzling Christmas tree. This engaging book is fun to read aloud and an ideal gift for the many families who celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas." --pg. 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beavers Pond Press 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NATSimone, Nina
Contents: My baby just cares for me (3:56) -- Don't smoke in bed (3:09) -- I loves you, Porgy (4:03) -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out (2:41) -- Trouble in mind (5:30) -- Mississippi goddam (4:52) -- I put a spell on you (2:34) -- Ne me quitte pas (3:35) -- My man's gone now (4:12) -- I want a little sugar in my bowl (2:30) -- Blues for mama (3:56) -- To love somebody (2:40) -- Ain't got no, I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 7-N 2000