Summary: A young boy disappears from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Years later his father finds him living with an Amazon tribe, but he doesn't want to leave, and ends up teaching his father about true civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMECoppo, Marianna
Summary: "Olivia, an indoor cat, is a fearless explorer until she accidentally finds herself outside, which tests her adventurous sense of self and results in a brave new outlook."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COPFarooki, Roopa.
Summary: Follows the machinations of a Bangladeshi-Pakistani family whose penchant for telling lies shapes the destinies of every member, from Henna, who lies her way into a marriage to a wealthy romantic, to her daughter Shona, who struggles with the superficialties binding her loved ones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARFarooki, Roopa.
Summary: Abandoning her privileged life in England and husband of less than a year, Aruna Ahmed returns to her native Singapore, where she remembers the death of her father, her failed relationship with her best friend, and a complicated psychological diagnosis she has tried to ignore.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARCoppo, Marianna
Summary: In this interactive book Lady Rabbit the Magician offers to read your mind, if you pick a member from the magician's audience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Coppo, Marianna
Summary: Buzz is a very good boy, who lives in a fancy house, eats well, and has equally well-behaved (boring) friends--but sometimes he would really like to break free, run fast, dig holes, and play with the other dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COPCrespo, Alex
Summary: Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CREBonilla, Rocio
Summary: Camila the chicken, Mr. Martínez the fox, Felipe the mouse, Rodolfo the cat, Matilde the pig, Mrs. Paquita the owl, Pepe the ogre, and Matilde the inventor, all live in the same on the same street, but nobody talks to anybody else, until one day Mrs. Paquita's internet connection goes out, and Matilde (surprised to find out someone actually lives next door) fixes the problem--and so starts a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Roscoe, Lily
Summary: In the Night Parade children play and sing while their parents sleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSCrespo, Ana
Summary: "When Brazilian American twins Lia and Luís receive a jigsaw puzzle from their grandmother, they must quickly solve it to figure out its secret message."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CRERosow, Christopher
Summary: "On the morning of July 12, 2017, the FBI Boston field office receives what appears to be a hoax call: a man rescued from the waters off Massachusetts has claimed that his sailboat was hijacked and used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into the United States. With local agents tasked to prepare for an evening Presidential visit to downtown Boston, and with procedures requiring a response to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quadrant Publishing, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSSummary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHERusso, Richard
Summary: "One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUSRossi, Veronica
Summary: 1776. A shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity for Frannie Tasker to escape her brutal stepfather. Assuming the identity of drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSRossi, Veronica
Summary: After sealing Sebastian in a dark dimension with the demon Samrael, Daryl loses her visions and must rely on her instincts to lead the riders into a shadowy realm where she fears she may have to use evil powers in order to rescue him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSRosson, Keith
Summary: "When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the very last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSBonilla, Rocio
Summary: A sister and brother are bothered by one another until they realize that two siblings might be okay after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Azzarello, Brian
Summary: "Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, Moonshine #1 tells the story of Lou Pirlo, a city-slick "torpedo" sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in West Virginia, one Hiram Holt. Lou figures it for milk run -- how hard could it be to set-up moonshine shipments from a few ass-backward hillbillies? What Lou doesn't figure on is that Holt is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AZZHosp, David.
Summary: A Boston lawyer accepts a dangerous assignment involving an attack on a policewoman and an El Salvadoran immigrant with ties to one of South America's most notorious gangs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOSSummary: Follow a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation, on the run and looking for a place to hide. He ends up hiding out with a reclusive rock superstar. It all leads up to a shocking final performance for the rock star.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE PERHosp, David.
Summary: Scott Finn, rising star at a Boston law firm, has worked hard to pull himself out of the Charlestown projects. When the body of his co-worker and old flame, Natalie Caldwell, floats to the surface of Boston Harbor, Finn is grief stricken. But almost immediately, he's tapped by the firm to replace her in the defense of a high-profile client. As he retraces Natalie's footsteps, Finn begins to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOSSummary: In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why, and no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing the town. The dead rise from their graves and savagely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEACoppo, Marianna
Summary: "What is a thingamabob? A thingamabob can be anything . . . and so can you! A sweet, empowering picture book about self-discovery from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Petra. In the beginning, the universe was one great big thing. Then that thing exploded into gobs and gobs of thingamabobs. All of the thingamabobs had a purpose . . . all except for one small, shapeless thingamabob. No one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COPRocco, John
Summary: "After a massive blizzard, a boy becomes a hero when he manages to walk to the local store and bring supplies back to his neighborhood which has been snowed in for days. Based on the author's childhood experience"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2014