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Dinner. Grady, Cynthia Menger, Ivar Leon Minter, Adam Nadim Novik, Naomi Novik, Naomi. Samia Winter, ArielSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: "Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian casualties as well as footage of American POW's, the station has revealed (and continues to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CONSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRASummary: 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.
Format: moving image
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: Four young men form Jamaica's first bobsled team, in hopes of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Loosely based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COO RATED PGMinter, Adam
Summary: "When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner-- travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.473 MINSummary: In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDSummary: After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father figure for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand united as a team. In this uplifting underdog story, the Abilene Eagles will once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie UnderCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDWinter, Ariel
Summary: Through a variety of adventures Sofia proves she can be a true princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOFSamia
Contents: Kill her freak out -- Charm you -- Pink balloon -- Mad at me -- Sea lions -- To me it was -- Breathing song -- Honey -- Nanana -- Amelia -- Dream song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAMNovik, Naomi
Summary: "A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter ofmoneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NOVMenger, Ivar Leon
Summary: "Deep in the forests of Nordland, in a lake-side cabin on a small island, Juno has lived in almost complete isolation since early childhood. She has only her Mama and Papa and her little brother Boy for company. They live in constant fear. For danger could already be lurking on the other side of the lake, seeking them out - Strangers, as they call them, who want to take revenge on their father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MENSummary: Harry, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and infamous, is married to Louisa, who is smart and sexy. Andy is a suave and ruthless British spy, who had best come through this time, who forces Harry to eavesdrop on the powerful politicians he clothes. Harry's talent for storytelling is not only taken as truth, but sets off a series of events that threatens to destroy everything most important in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Minter, Adam
Summary: "In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 MINSummary: A scientist discovers a way to relive your past and uses the technology to search for his long lost love. Whilst a private investigator uncovers a conspiracy while helping his clients recover lost memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REMSummary: "Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams₂s years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago, all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Dinner.
Contents: Going out -- Skid Row -- 3rd presence -- the dawn is here -- Overtake -- This girl -- Girl -- Ok, alright (Late Night vocal version -- You are like LA -- Say what you want (Love is death) (soft version) -- Stone Town (Berlin mix).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Captured Tracks 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DINNadim
Summary: "Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdaysare rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make a shhhh sound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 NADNovik, Naomi.
Summary: As Napoleon launches an attack on Britain, Captain Will Laurence, accused of treason, escapes from his prison ship and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite with his fighting dragon, Temeraire, who has been consigned to breeding grounds in Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006