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Adventure and adventurers Juvenile fiction California Los Angeles Criminal investigation California Los Angeles Drama Dinosaurs Juvenile fiction Islands Juvenile fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Drama Love Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Princesses Juvenile filmsSummary: Three stories of women on their way to life-changing crossroads. One is a battered wife fleeing her husband, one is a young woman dealing with feelings of infidelity and the third is a pregnant woman trapped in a relationship she doesn't want.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PERSummary: Join Princess Nella, a girl who saves the citizens of her parents' kingdom by turning into a princess knight whenever there is trouble, as she goes on eight royally awesome quests with her friends Trinket, Sir Garrett, and Clod.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV NELSummary: Based on the true story of Bill Porter, a man with cerebal palsy. With little hope of getting a real job, Bill asks to take on the position of salesman in the most unwanted and difficult territory. He gets the job and makes his rounds, impacting the lives of his customers during his nearly 50-year career that often found him at the top of his company's sales charts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOOSummary: Miracle Workers follows Craig, a low-level angel responsible for handling all of humanity's prayers, and Eliza, a recent transfer from the Department of Dirt. Their boss, God, pretty much has checked out to focus on his favorite hobbies. To prevent Earth's destruction, Craig along with Eliza, must achieve their most impossible miracle to date.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIRSummary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: Miracle Workers goes back in time to the middle ages for its next installment, as a group of medieval villagers try to stay positive in an age of extreme income inequality, poor healthcare and widespread ignorance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIRSummary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: The LAPD is looking for a new chief and Will Pope thinks he has the inside track. He soon has an unexpected rival for the job: Brenda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOWilson, Karma
Summary: Just as Lewis the mouse is settling into his near-perfect home for the winter, still wondering what is missing, he hears noises and must roar to scare away whatever horrid creature is scratching and tapping at his tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WILSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUDavis, Kyra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVSummary: Pre-schoolers and parents will be inspired by this unconventional hero who combines the royally awesome qualities of a princess and a courageous sword-swinging knight. Nella pushes the boundaries of traditional princess roles while sending a strong message of self-empowerment, conflict resolution, empathy and kindness, teamwork.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Nickelodeon / Paramount 2018
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Summary: "Mystery writer and dabbling recreational sleuth Sophie Katz is head over heels in love--with a three-bedroom Victorian. She's just got to have it, despite a few drawbacks. Her slimy ex is the Realtor. The rich, creepy seller wants her to join San Francisco's spirited Specter Society. And her first tour of the house reveals, well, a lifeless body clutching a cameo with a disturbing history of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Kyra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Dress Ink 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Kyra.
Summary: Overjoyed at Maryanne's engagement, amateur sleuth and mystery author Sophie Katz can't wait for the wedding vows and party toasts to begin. But then Dena--best friend, bridesmaid and all-around vixen--is mysteriously shot just after the announcement, leaving Sophie to wonder whether Mary Ann, who's intent on a Disney-themed wedding with successful toymaker Monty Sanchez, was the real...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Kyra.
Summary: When she is asked to spy on her best friend's two-timing husband who turns up dead at San Francisco's hottest nightclub, would-be sleuth Sophie unwittingly becomes submerged in a world of political mudslinging, campaign cover-ups, sex, and strange fetishes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Dress Ink 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVGurley, Jason
Summary: Off the coast of the small California town of Orilla del Cielo, the silhouettes of oil rigs loom. To Zach, they are a reminder of loss-- his father, an oil worker, drowned years earlier. With his family struggling to make ends meet, Zach feels he's destined for the same bleak future. Then he meets Vanessa, an optimistic girl from a wealthy family whose sights are literally set on the stars....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Book Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GURGurney, James
Summary: Four years after being shipwrecked on the island of Dinotopia, sixteen-year-old Will Denison, now a Skybax Corps pilot, explores the skies over the island while his scientist father explores the legendary caverns of the World Beneath.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calla Editions 2012
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Summary: "Professor Denison and his saurian companion, Bix, set out on a perilous journey to the forbidden empire of Chandara. When their personal invitation from the emperor goes missing, they are forced to cross the border penniless and in disguise. Every step of the way, Denison documents in exquisite detail the creatures, characters, and architecture he encounters."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2007
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Summary: In 1862, after being shipwrecked in uncharted seas, Professor Arthur Denison and his twelve-year-old son Will find themselves washed up on a strange island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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Summary: Jesse gets to ride on a dinosaur train.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GURSummary: A thief escapes from a rehab clinic and convinces a local family that he's Zonad, a voyager from outer space. Ensconced in their comfy home, the pretend alien finds that the most tempting pleasure is Jenny, the family's beautiful teenage daughter. Anxious to experience love, but unable to convince her rich boyfriend Guy to go all the way, Jenny finds Zonad a more-than-willing lover. But soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Buff 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ZONSummary: Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008