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Summary: After her sister dies in childbirth, a young orthodox Jewish woman's family pressures her to marry her brother-in-law rather than entering into an arranged marriage with a man closer to her age.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower's wife Mamie knew the gossip: Ike was involved with another woman; his letters home were only tepidly reassuring. The relationship between Eisenhower and his driver/aide Kay Summersby moved from England to North Africa and then throughout Europe before and after the Normandy landing. At the end of the war, Ike is faced with the heart-wrenching...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

McBride, Amber

Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCB

Gigot, Jami

Summary: A lonely boy feels like a stranger on his own planet until the day his radio bursts to life with the rhythm of stardust energy. Includes notes and facts about David Bowie's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIG

Thomas, M. J.

Summary: "The mysterious scroll transports the time-traveling trio back to Bethlehem where they quickly befriend a young David before he faces Goliath"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THO

Eisenberg, Jesse

Summary: Follows the five-day interview between Rolling Stone report David Lipsky and novelist David Foster Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY END
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF END

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Summary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Summary: Or, a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But her real full-time job is looking after her mother who has worked as a street prostitute for 20 years. The daughter must make a choice between taking care of her mother's bottomless needs or having an uncorrupted life...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005

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

Krauss, Nicole

Summary: One of America's most important novelists (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRA

Mass, Wendy

Summary: When Robin Hood and Marian are thrown together on a quest that requires bravery, quick-witted escapes, and the ability to get along, they discover there is no limit to what they can do together.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MAS

Carr, Robyn

Summary: The rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails welcomes everyone, whether they're looking for a weekend getaway or a new lease on life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Carr, Robyn

Summary: For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CAR

Yang, Kelly

Summary: When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move, and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC YAN

Summary: Biographical film following the life of American soldier Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus, the soldier responsible for turning the Israeli Army into a true power for their fight for independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE CAS

Summary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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

Hering, Marianne.

Summary: Mr. Whittaker uses the Imagination Station to transport cousins Patrick and Beth to the Holy Land in 1000 B.C., where Hugh is trying to change history by helping the Philistines defeat the Israelites.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2011

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HER

Mina, Denise

Summary: "On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIN

Rice, Anne

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeta Bolsillo 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION RIC

Summary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Brooks, Geraldine.

Summary: Based on the story of King David, traces his journey from an obscure shepherd to a hero and king before his fall.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2015

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Brooks 2015

Charyn, Jerome

Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021

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Johnson, D. B. (Donald B.)

Summary: On a misty morning, Henry, a bear modeled after Henry David Thoreau, shows his awareness of nature as he helps neighbors during his walk to work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOH

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