Summary: Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions, and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she uncovers a dark secret about her own past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BORBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuSummary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGSummary: Stockholm, the 1980s: Three teen girls decide to form a punk band, despite only one being a musician, not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead. Focused on stirring things up in the world, but without a clue, the trio is a tribute to DIY culture and the power of rebellion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WESummary: After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. While struggling as a single mother and mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male-dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Get ready for a twisted take on the classic tale as Hansel and Gretel have turned pro, coping with the trauma of their childhood captivity by slaying witches for hire. But when the seemingly unstoppable bounty hunters meet their match in an enemy so evil, it'll take all their training, weapons and courage to survive. Revenge is sweeter than candy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BOPearla
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PEASummary: After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. While struggling as a single mother and mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male-dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: A Swedish policeman is confronted by criminal activities on the island Gotland. After the death of her husband, Maria moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children to start over. While struggling to raise two children on her own and still mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male dominated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Press, Petra.
Summary: Discusses the culture, religion, survival and daily life of the Mayan people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.81016 PRESummary: "He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away ... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECSummary: "He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away ... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. It's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYJonsson, Erik
Summary: "Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway? Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness? How - and why - do we get lost at all?" "In this book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.752 JONPress, Petra.
Contents: Who are the Apache? -- Nomadic hunters -- The importance of family -- Drawing on the spiritual world -- A reputation as warriors -- The arrival of the Spanish -- New enemies -- The Apache wars -- The surrender of Geronimo -- Refugees in their own land -- Into the twenty-first century -- Further loss of identity -- Words to know -- To find out more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 PREAhnert, Petra
Summary: Modern beekeepers - take notice! Here we have the answer to one of the most common questions related to beekeeping: what do I do with all of this beeswax? In fact, the possibilities are seemingly endless! As beeswax has multiple holistic and decorative uses, projects can vary from beauty and health products to household items. Beeswax Alchemy is your first step towards using excess beeswax to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638 AHNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638 AHNBrown, Petra
Summary: "While Big Bear and Little Bear are sleeping, a wild storm rages. They wake to find that the wind has knocked down the trees, they'll have to move. Big Bear helps Little Bear understand that home is who you're with"-Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROMathers, Petra.
Summary: Lottie the chicken has a number of adventures at the beach, during which her new towel comes in handy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MATPress, Petra.
Summary: Explores the culture of the peoples who lived along the coastline from what is now southern Alaska to northern California, focusing on their life before contact with Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.4 PREPetran, Tabitha.
Contents: From empire to colony: Mount Lebanon and Grand Liban -- The early years: independence and the national pact -- The beginning of nationalism(s) and the emergence of political parties -- The Shehab experiment: the failure of reform -- The forgotten south: Israel and the Palestinians -- Winds of change: the emergence of a sociopolitical opposition -- 1970: the tide turns -- The gathering storm:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monthly Review Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 PETPetri, Alexandra
Summary: "These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 PETPress, Petra.
Summary: Examines the art of Native Americans, including painting, stone sculpture, basketry, pottery, and jewelry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2001