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Bejo, Berenice

Summary: A young Cambodian woman, who with her husband got separated from their four-year-old son during the Khmer Rouge revolution, is determined to reunite her family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUN

Summary: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a fifteen-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott's estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIL

Summary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL

Nguon, Chantha

Summary: "Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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Summary: Happy feet: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAP

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Happy 2013

Summary: Ann Lake goes to pick up her daughter, Bunny, at a London preschool but is told that they have no child registered by that name. The police can find no evidence that Bunny ever existed and wonder if the child was only a fantasy of Ann's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUN

Summary: An all-new Midnight Society and a spooky new seaside location bring fresh scares when the group's leader suddenly vanishes. The remaining members must follow the clues, confront dark forces, and ultimately uncover the truth behind their town's terrifying curse. Will they break the curse of the shadows, before it₂s too late?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ARE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARE

Mullarkey, John

Summary: On May 31, 1889, as the waters rise in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Beth, her mother, and Vincent, a boy she likes, struggle to save what they can from the flooding but when the dam collapses the reader is invited to choose between three possible endings for Sarah Beth and her family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MUL

Summary: A boy is washed up on a mystery island with a host of strange, non-human characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV H.R.

Summary: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED PG 13

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Li

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lion 2017

Osborne, Lawrence

Summary: In order to escape his boring English life, Robert, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, re-imagines himself in Cambodia where he befriends an unstable American, falls in love with a wealthy young woman, and is threatened by the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSB

Clark, Mary Higgins

Summary: When we last saw Nancy Harmon, tragedy had struck her family as she suffered through the heartbreak of her first marriage, the ghastly deaths of her two children, hostile media coverage, and the harsh criminal charges against her. Nancy was forced to relocate across the country, change her name and appearance, anything that could be used to identify her controversial past. Years later, after a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Goffney, Joya

Summary: "Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career... After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOF

Summary: A nightmarish three-part limited series event filled with scorpions, eyeless men, disappearing children and the creepiest carnival of all time! Rachel has a chance to join the secret Midnight Society. All she has to do is tell a truly terrifying story. But when the chilling events of her Tale of Mr. Tophat and the Carnival of Doom start to actually come true and her friends' lives are at stake,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ARE

Otfinoski, Steven

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "On May 31, 1889, heavy rains and a dam failure sent flood waters sweeping into Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 50-foot-high wall of water quickly demolished much of the town. Will you and your new husband be able to escape certain doom as you wait for your train to leave the station? Can you climb onto your house's roof for safety before the building completely fills with water? Will you join in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2022

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Summary: In Dublin, a young Nigerian girl, Esme Lukasa, is found dead at a bus stop opening an investigation into her violent death. This leads Inspector Jen Rooney and her team of investigating detectives to a Direct Provision Centre for asylum-seekers. It is soon discovered that another girl from the center has disappeared. The police enter a murky underworld of slumlords and traffickers to find out...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAK

Funk, McKenzie

Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHER, HANK FUN

Summary: Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelman have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHI

Summary: Let your imagination soar as you join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and the whole Clubhouse gang of classic characters as they set off on amazing music-filled storybook adventures inspired by your favorite fairy tales.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIC

Summary: Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when four-year-old Callum Reid goes missing in this tense and emotional drama. Moving between two timelines, 2008 and the present day, it follows the story of detective Maggie Brand as she investigates Callum's disappearance after a neighborhood party. Callum was never found and the case has never been solved. Then, five years after he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GUI

Summary: A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU FAMILY HOM

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KID

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KID RATED R

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ki

Summary: In 1965, the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse is recruited into the hunt for a missing schoolgirl and finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012

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Summary: It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIC

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