Summary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMBSummary: In season five, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan's lethal correction has initiated its control. Finch's Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team is once again hiding in plain sight. But with Samaritan's invisible grip tightening everywhere, will Finch be able to rebuild and resurrect The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: Although they've saved countless lives thanks to The Machine's omniscience, Reese and Finch, along with lethal operative Shaw, and unpredictable cyber-hacker Root, now face an uncertain future. With a second machine, Samaritan, now online, the elusive team now find themselves as targets, hiding in plain sight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: This crime thriller follows presumed-dead former CIA agent, John Reese, who teams up with mysterious billionaire Harold Finch to prevent violent crimes with high-tech surveillance and their own brand of vigilante justice. With Finch missing, Reese enlists Detectives Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco to join the search for his friend. Will Reese and his team find Finch before it₂s too late? Who will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESSummary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated 'hosts' are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores takes charge, Maeve is on a mission and the Man in Black is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life, and the evolution of sin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESYokoyama, Hideo
Summary: "The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOKSummary: Abominable takes audiences on an epic 2,000-mile adventure from the streets of Shanghai to the breathtaking Himalayan snowscapes. When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him "Everest" and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ABOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Abominable 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ABOSummary: When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. They then embark on a trip to find his father whom he has never met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CENKulper, Kendall
Summary: In 1930s Hollywood, eighteen-year-old budding starlet Henrietta and her handsome-but-moody co-star Declan go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners when they become entangled in the disappearance of a beautiful young actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KULSundstol, Vidar
Summary: "It's been a long, dark time since a gruesome discovery drew U.S. Forest Service ranger Lance Hansen into a murder investigation that is now approaching a resolution--although not to his satisfaction. In fact, the mysteries have been multiplying and getting uncomfortably close to home. On the run after a hunting expedition with his brother, Andy, went awry, Lance is haunted by visions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNWiden, Gregory.
Summary: As the only man who knows where Eva Perón is buried, CIA officer Michael Suslov is asked to help bring her body back to Argentina as part of a civil war peace deal, but he isn't the only one looking to unearth the former First Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIDGidel, Daranna.
Summary: Three lives are intertwined in this story of love and greed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIDHaggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider)
Contents: King Solomon's mines -- Allan Quatermain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leonaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAGMided, Steph
Summary: "In this punchy and energetic middle grade graphic novel, six artistic misfits take matters into their own hands when their principal cancels all creative extracurricular clubs at their school. When the school principal cancels Sasha's gaming club, she's crushed--but not alone. Turns out theater, cosplay, and choir clubs are canceled too, and tons of kids are left without a space to let their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: After his brother Cameron comes back from a war, eight-year-old Seth tries to keep Cameron from falling in love with a woman he believes to be a vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REFSterer, Gideon
Summary: A clever magician teaches young readers his most top-secret tricks as he disappears and reappears throughout the book's pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEVivelo, Jackie.
Contents: A Summer to last forever -- Cradle song -- The good neighbor policy -- Chills run down my spine -- Nick of time -- The ghost of Fiddler's elbow -- Can you top that? -- The bell-ringer -- The creature in the doorway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC VIVKutub, Naz
Summary: Sy, a seventeen-year-old gay Muslim boy, travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC KUTSundstol, Vidar
Summary: "A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior--right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNSundstøl, Vidar
Summary: "On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNFry, Jason
Summary: Who is Darth Vader? How did the once great Jedi become a fearsome villain? Who are the allies and foes Darth Vader has faced? In this biography -- complete with black-and-white illustrations, timelines, and character profiles -- young readers will delight in learning the complete history of the Sith Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRYSterer, Gideon
Summary: "Bird builds the perfect nest, the only problem is everyone else wants to sleep in it!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019