Summary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charlie 2008Summary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREDoll, Jen
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Millicent M. Chalmers is depending on a series of debating victories, culminating in winning Alabama's state debate tournament, to secure a college scholarship. Her singular focus is disrupted after a run-in with Taggart Strong, who seems equally dedicated to losing every debate as long as he says what he really believes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOLSummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOBSummary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOvie Harriet 2020Summary: You asked for more, and the Planet Express crew delivered! Welcome back to the light-years-ahead-of-its-time animated series. Join Fry, Bender, Leela, and the rest of the gang for 13 hilarious new episodes that tackle some of the most controversial subjects in the galaxy, including evolution, mind exchange, feline intelligence, and robosexual marriage. Hey, it could happen!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FUTSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUDold, Gaylord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOLDole, Mayra
Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 DOLShaw, Dash
Summary: "During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Indiana Quaker, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SHAAw, Tash
Summary: Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWBoll, Heinrich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLPoll, Willie
Summary: "Inspired by Indigenous motherhood, this beautifully illustrated book is a tribute to Indigenous families everywhere who are proudly raising their children to carry forward their culture, language and love with resilience, strength and kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sister's death."-- Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCARash, Ron.
Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Serena returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWJewitt, Kath
Summary: When Cinderella goes to the ball, all her dreams come true! But for how long?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2016
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Summary: Kappa Rho Nu may seem like your average sorority. They're the most powerful girls on Westerly College's Savannah, Georgia, campus. But the sisters of Kappa Rho Nu share a secret: they're a coven of witches. Scarlett Winters, daughter of a legacy Raven, is determined to live up to her mother's impossible expectations of becoming Kappa Rho Nu's next president. Vivi Deveraux vows to do whatever it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORMuir, Coll
Summary: Instead of eating Bird, Cat decides that friendship is better, but will the pair find something in common?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUIShaw, Dash.
Summary: It's 2060, and a devastating civl war has left the country in shambles. Professor Paulie Panther--botanist, writer, and hopeless romantic--arrives in the experimental forest town of Boney Borough to research a strange plant growing behind the high school. Paulie soon discovers that the plant, when smoked, imparts telepathic powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHAColl, Susan
Summary: Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she fantasizes about going into hiding in the secret back room of her store. Meanwhile, renowned poet Raymond Chaucer has published a new collection, and rumors that he's to blame for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLGash, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1984