Summary: Vanessa Scalera stars as deputy prosecutor Immacolata 'Imma' Tataranni, a workaholic with a prodigious memory who solves cases with unorthodox methods and attitude to spare. Loosely based on the novels by Italian author Mariolina Venezia and filmed in the stunning Basilicata region of southern Italy, the show is based in the city of Matera, famous for its Sassi district of ancient hillside cave...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMMSummary: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMOKotb, Hoda
Summary: What makes us happy all day through? Let's count those things, just me and you.... Inspired by her own nighttime routine with her daughter, Haley Joy, Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb has written a book that celetrates the things that make us happy each day... the big things and the small.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD KOTKotb, Hoda
Summary: Lyrical text and illustrations of baby animals and their mothers show the love of a parent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E KOTKotb, Hoda
Summary: What makes up happy all day through? Let's count those things, just me and you.... Inspired by her own nighttime routine with her daughter, Haley Joy, Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb has written a book that celetrates the things that make us happy each day... the big things and the small. With illustrations from Suzie Mason, Kort's soothing yet playful lullaby explores the simple and wondrous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KOTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOTKotb, Hoda
Summary: A celebration of all the things that hope can mean and how to reach for your dreams, whether they are as big as the night sky or as small as a bowl of ice cream.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOTKerby, Mona.
Summary: In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC KERGray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINMasessa, Ed
Summary: "An old dog wants nothing more than to take a nap, but a musical mouse makes this impossible. Through rhyming text and a series of funny letters, the miscommunication between the two builds to a surprising ending."--Jacket flap
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MASBlakeslee, Vanessa
Summary: "Growing up as the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, teenaged Mercedes Martinez knows a world of maids, armed guards, and private drivers. When she falls in love with Manuel, a fiery young activist with a passion for his faith and his country, she begins to understand the suffering of the desplazados who share her land. A startling discovery about her father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLADiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIFRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoeder, Vanessa
Summary: Using a cardboard box as his home when he is born without a shell, Terrance the turtle enjoys the uniqueness and versatility of his home until another turtle’s insensitive remarks make him question his differences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROEGray, Anissa
Summary: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gray 2019Marufu, Aneesa
Summary: Escaping from an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Khadija finds an unlikely ally in a poor young glassmaker's apprentice, and as a deadly revolution exploits forbidden magic, threatening their friendship, they must choose what kind of world they want to live in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARHagio, Moto
Summary: "The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: 'To Juli, one last time. This is my love. This is the sound of my heart. Surely you must understand'"--Publisher's web site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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Summary: "A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy's town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ACTChan, Vanessa
Summary: "Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACuti, Vanessa
Summary: "Eager to get married, thirty-year-old Virginia Carey lands a job as an operator at a police tip line, where she thinks finding a husband will be easy. There's Charlie Ford, a surprisingly sweet homicide detective, and charming police chief Declan "Deck" Brady. But just as Virginia's plans begin to fall into place and she can almost picture a ring on her finger, she answers a call from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUTGebbie, Vanessa.
Summary: When nine-year old Laddy Merridew goes to live with his grandmother in a small Welsh town, he befriends the town beggar-storyteller, Ianto and learns about the Kindly Lights coal mine collapse that had a profound effect on the lives of subsequent generations of townspeople.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEBHua, Vanessa
Summary: "A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022