Summary: The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARSelena, Elena
Summary: "Can you guess who? Who's hiding behind bright blue feathers? Who's covering their face with yellow wings, or a bushy orange tail? Little ones will delight in lifting the flaps to find out just who is playing peekaboo in this cheerfully illustrated boardbook"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEValentino, Serena
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VALValentino, Serena.
Summary: Sometimes it's all a matter of the choices we make ... What choices did Snow White's stepmother, the Wicked Queen, make that would turn her so evil she would want to cut out her step-daughter's heart? Does it have something to do with the man in the magic mirror? And who is he, really?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VALAkhtiorskaya, Yelena.
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKHMaxwell, Everina
Summary: "Summoned before the Emperor, Prince Kiem-a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild-is commanded to renew the empire's bonds with its newest vassal planet. The prince must marry Count Jainan, the recent widower of another royal prince of the empire. But the Jainan suspects his late husband's death was no accident. And Prince Kiem discovers that Jainan is a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAXMaxwell, Everina
Summary: "Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit. Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXPerera, Anna.
Summary: Innocent until proven guilty? Not here, you're not. He's fifteen. He's hasn't done anything wrong. It was supposed to be just a trip to visit his mum's family in Pakistan. But for Khalid Ahmed, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. He's kidnapped—then taken to a place thousands of miles from his home in the UK. A place where torture and terror are the daily routine. A place he may never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2011
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Varela, Alejandro
Summary: "When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARAardema, Verna.
Summary: In this retelling of a Masai tale, a mongoose helps an ostrich get her chicks back from the lonely lioness who has stolen them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AARVerna, Harmony
Summary: The desert of Western Australia is vast and unforgiving. It's a miracle that the little girl dressed in rags and abandoned in the sand is still breathing when an old miner discovers her. Even more so that he is able to keep her alive long enough to bring her to the town from which she'll take her name: Leonora. Sent to an orphanage, mute with grief and fear, Leonora slowly bonds with another...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Verna 2016Cottin, Menena.
Summary: In a story where the text appears in white letters on a black background, as well as in braille, and the illustrations are also raised on a black surface, Thomas describes how he recognizes different colors using various senses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTBurdick, Serena
Summary: In New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. When the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the "House of Mercy." Effie gets herself...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURKent, Serena
Summary: "The second book in the Penelope Kite series. After an eventful first few months in Provence, it seems Penelope is finally settling into her delightful new life, complete with a gorgeous love interest in the mayor of St. Merlot. When Penelope and the mayor Laurent Millais attend a glamorous gallery opening, a scandal-free evening is not in the cards. The evening comes to a horrifying halt when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENValentino, Serena
Summary: What led Ursula, the sea witch, to become so twisted, scorned, and filled with hatred? Go beyond the traditional story of Disney's The Little Mermaid, and discover what heartbreak made Ursula the manipulator and villain she is.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VALValentino, Serena
Summary: The two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's legendary haunting of Sleepy Hollow is approaching, but Kat van Tassel wants nothing to do with the town's superstitious celebrations. As a descendant of the original Katrina van Tassel, Kat knows she's expected to fulfill her ancestor's legacy by someday marrying her longtime boyfriend and running the prestigious family estate. But Kat...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Enterprises, Inc. 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Burdick, Serena
Summary: Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But then one morning she is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy, and the only way to free...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURMiller, Serena.
Summary: The Civil War has ended, but in Katie Calloway's Georgia home conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her violent and unstable husband, she flees north, finding anonymity and sanctuary as the cook in a Northwoods lumber camp. The camp owner, Robert Foster, wonders if the lovely woman he's hired has the grit to survive the never-ending work and harsh conditions of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Valentino, Serena
Summary: An adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast from the perspective of the cursed prince, who's transformed from a beloved and jovial ruler into a reclusive and bitter monster in search of true love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VALValentino, Serena
Summary: "Lady Tremaine, widowed and raising two headstrong girls alone, finds herself falling for a dashing knight from a far-off land who is looking for a stepmother for his own young daughter. But stepmothers in the Many Kingdoms never tend to fare well...and Lady Tremaine may be destined for a not-so-happily ever after"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VALValentino, Serena
Summary: Examines the life of Snow White's stepmother, the Wicked Queen, to find out just what it is that makes her so evil that she would want to cut out her teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered in a locked keepsake box.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VALValentino, Serena.
Summary: This collection includes all three books in Serena Valentino's Villains trilogy. Fairest of All, A Tale of the Wicked Queen; The Beast Within, A Tale of Beauty's Prince; and Poor Unfortunate Soul, A Tale of the Sea Witch.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD Fiction Valentino 2016Blasco, Serena
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022