Summary: Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LANAlbertine, Viv
Summary: "At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task of sorting through her mother's affairs. In that process she came across one fatally curious item: a bag labelled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBERTINE, VIV ALBSummary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALBLasater, Judith
Summary: "Because yoga has become more and more popular and integrated into Western culture, millions of people outside of India study and practice yoga. Along with this has been a proliferation in the numbers of yoga teachers. In this book, introduces "yoga myths' in each chapter. These are the beliefs commonly held about how movements should be practiced which in fact do not represent the actual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 LASLamster, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 LAMNatera, Cleyvis
Summary: "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATLasser, Scott.
Summary: After losing his son and divorcing his wife, a Detroit native returns home after twenty-five years and becomes involved with the sister of his murdered high school girlfriend as he tries to put back the pieces of his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASMaster P.
Contents: Bout It, Bout It II (5:09) -- Make 'Em Say Uhh (5:04) -- How Ya Do Dat (4:31) -- Bounce Dat Azz (5:26) -- Thug Girl (3:12) -- I Got The Hook Up (4:17) -- Hot Boys & Girls (5:24) -- Souljas (3:32) -- Mr. Ice Cream Man (5:08) -- My Ghetto Heroes (4:44) -- Bout Dat (3:21) -- Step To Dis (2:50) -- Break 'Em Off Somethin' (4:42) -- Burbons And Lacs (4:10) -- Goodbye To My Homies (4:15) -- I Miss My...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Priority Records 2005
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Lasser, Scott.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASMatera, Lia.
Summary: Lawyer Willa Jansson, the wisecracking sleuth, stages a phony kidnapping with herself in the role of hostage to permit a falsely accused friend to escape from police. But now they have to evade the real killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATLasker, Joe.
Summary: Traces the life of the warrior king of Macedonia who conquered and unified the known world and even led his army into unexplored areas in his quest for new lands to conquer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938.07 LASLystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWAEaster, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easter and Easter, Inc. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.12 EASLasser, Scott.
Summary: A novel about second chances from a writer of "stirring, poignant, and quietly profound" work (Wally Lamb) Twenty-five years after his high school graduation, David Halpert returns to a place that most people flee. But David is making his own escape—from his divorce and the death of his son. In Detroit David learns about the double shooting of his high school girlfriend, Natalie, and her black...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Lasser, Scott.
Summary: On September 10, 2001, Kyle tells his sister, Cat, that he believes he has fathered a son. The next day both Kyle and the boy's mother head off to work and are never heard from again. Cat--a single mother of a young son--sets out to find her brother's orphaned child. Nearly a year later, that search is ongoing when her father, Sam, asks Cat to come to California for the anniversary of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC LASPaster, Emily
Summary: Whether your goal is to start your own community food swap, or just make delicious treats to share with family and friends, this is the book you need! Part cookbook, part how-to guide, Food Swap features more than 80 recipes for artisanal items that will be coveted at food swaps and adored as gifts, including preserves, baked goods, granolas, cheeses, pestos, roasted nuts, flavored salts, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PASPaster, Emily
Summary: A celebration of delicious foods from Jewish cooks. Learn about one of the most vital subtopics in Jewish cooking: preserved foods. Jewish cooks, even casual ones, are proud of the history of preserved foods in Jewish life, from the time of living in a desert two millennia ago to the era in which Jews lived in European ghettoes with no refrigeration during the last century. In a significant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 PASLacera, Megan
Summary: A group of diverse kids turn to the mythical monsters from their respective cultures to help them save the only home they have ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LACEaster, Jeff
Contents: One name -- Here comes Jesus -- How to love you -- Fall into peace -- The only way he knew how -- No rock -- I'll speak love -- Don't waste the rain -- The giving part of living -- Sunshine on a cloudy day.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaither Music Group 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN EASLasser, Jon
Summary: "Young Kiko, aided by her teenaged sister, Annie, and her dog, Chico, grows kind as they harvest fruits, flowers, and vegetables from their garden and share them with others. Includes note for parents and caregivers." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LASLister, Margot.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plays, Inc. 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.009 LISMosie Lister
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Mosie Lister Pub. 1957