Whitehill, Miry
Summary: Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THUSummary: "The Avengers" is a Marvel Superhero movie starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson. Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D, which is an international peacekeeping agency. This two-disc Blu-ray/DVD set is action-packed, with favorite characters such as The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow. Rated PG-13 for inappropriate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie AvengersAird, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRFrancis, Patry
Summary: "A passionate and page-turning saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives over several decades in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Told through these three voices, The orphans of Race Point is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. But most of all, it is a gorgeous and unforgettable love story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAAkagawa, Jirō
Summary: An incident occurred at a wedding hall where Akiko Nagato was working part-time. The bride disappears just before the ceremony, and there is a corpse in the wedding dress. Akiko shows her curiosity and pursues the case. Youth humor mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKAAird, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRFury, Dalton
Summary: Kolt "racer" Raynor and his delta force squadron are in greece, providing vip security for the newly electedand deeply controversialAmerican president on his desperate mission to hold the nato alliance together. Then, the unimaginable happens. Just as the president is arriving, an assassins bullet takes the life of the greek prime minister. The president is safe, but raynor recognizes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURPetry, Ann
Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETYū, Miri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Rain Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUSummary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WINAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIFrancis, Patry
Summary: Two long-term foster parents in a mid-twentieth-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused indigenous girl who strengthens their family's bonds in unexpected ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Francis 2021Thomson, Pari
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma-- but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes--she has stepped out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC THOSummary: "... follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home. He is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic (Getty) leading a different life"--cited from Wikipedia, February 17, 2023.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY LOSAira, César
Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRHirt, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Taniguchi, Jirō.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DISSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOEAkagawa, Jirō
Summary: Ayumi, a second-year college student, was invited to a wedding reception by her senior at the club, Tamura, but it seems strange. On top of that, Tamura left behind saying, "It's just like that, but the bride is another woman," and went to Honeymoon. And murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKATaniguchi, Jirō
Summary: "Two defeated samurai are exiled from Japan during the Boshin War of 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold. Ending up in Crow Territory in North America, they encounter Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglalas, and soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures. This respect was felt so deeply that the two Japanese travelers end up fighting alongside the Oglalas at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare/Ponent Mon 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKYSummary: Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014