Summary: "Victoria Kowelska has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to San Francisco Bay. Now she should be blissfully happy with her devoted husband in their mansion overlooking the San Francisco Bay. But Victoria is not who she seems, her child belongs to someone else, and her husband and housekeeper are frightening her half to death."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUSummary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Bad habits / (Ed Sheeran) -- Cold heart (PNAU remix) / (Elton John & Dua Lipa) -- My universe / (Coldplay X BTS) -- Take my breath / (The Weeknd) -- No / (Little Mix) -- Talk about / (Rain Radio & DJ Craig Gorman) -- Black magic / (Jonasu) -- OUT OUT / (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charlie XCX & Saweetie) -- Remember / (Becky Hill & David Guetta) -- traitor / (Olivia Rodrigo) -- Happier...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM NOW 2021Summary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FaSummary: This film explores the 20-year relationship between two families, one Israeli and one Palestinian. Danae Elon last saw her childhood caregiver in 1991, and she seeks here to discover what happened to Musa, the Palestinian who helped raise her from her infancy until she joined the Israeli army. Her quest takes her to Paterson, NJ, where he had sent his own children to school, and she finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GeoQuest Entertainment Group, Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANOMacey, Glyn.
Summary: A complete guide to using acrylic paints creatively, this book showcases talented acrylics artist Glyn Macey's irrepressible energy and the imagination that infuses every part of his work. He shares his painting techniques and methods that transform everyday views into gorgeous and unique acrylic artworks. Readers will learn to use acrylic paints in unusual, creative, and surprising ways to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Search 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.426 MACSummary: The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12Summary: The Unit is a covert Special Forces team that operates outside the military chain of command. They are on the front lines, protecting U.S. citizens and foreigners alike, risking their lives daily in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNIMandel, Leon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.2222 MANKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KERSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACJimmy Giuffre 3
Contents: Trav'lin' light: Trav'lin light -- The swamp people -- The green country -- Forty-second Street -- Pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down -- The lonely time -- Show me the way to go home -- California here I come. Merely marvelous: Merely marvelous -- Let's begin -- All in fun -- The fifth of July -- Don't dream of anybody but me -- Round house Nellie -- Sell me -- Love wise -- Nobody else but me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording Corp. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GIUWeiss, Dara-Lynn.
Summary: For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother's unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting. When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss's daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had to take action. But how can a woman with her own food and body issues--not to mention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: Presents a collection of ten easy-to-read stories that introduce three- and four-letter rhyming words and feature consistent short vowel sounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Abu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Ghostbusters Afterlife: When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GhostbustersLyons, Anna
Summary: This book explores lessons learned about life, death, love and loss. It is a practical guide to rethinking death. It discusses life and living, as much as death and dying. It's a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It's as simple and as complicated as that.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Tree 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 LYOSummary: Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje, fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2023
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLASummary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 ABUSummary: Her funding rejected by the Royal Society, and pursued by an obsessed member of German nobility, Lily travels from London to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver in search of an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities which would change the future of medicine. Thinking she sees Frank for who he truly is -- a pun-loving con man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Jungle 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUNAbu-Jaber, Diana
Summary: "A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022