Summary: Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ADOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AdCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADOSummary: A heartwarming story about a deceased Sicilian father trying to negotiate his way into heaven. But the only way in is to first go back and repair his relationship with his reluctant son, reunite his feuding family back in Sicily, and help all find love in places they never imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROASummary: In a mythical world filled with magic and bewitchment, crops are dwindling, dragons have reappeared, and humanity is giving way to chaos. Journey with Lord Archmage Sparrowhawk, a master wizard, and Arren, a troubled young prince, on a tale of redemption and self-discovery as they search for the force behind a mysterious imbalance in the land of Earthsea. Based on the classic fantasy book...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME TALFreeman, Sam
Summary: During World War I, a young soldier is assigned to one of the most deadly areas along the Western Front. However, he finds the greatest threat to his life lies not with the enemy, but with a cult formed by his own men.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Cave Studios, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FREArmas, Elena
Summary: "Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's owner-who happens to be her father-sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMSummary: Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It₂s a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the program in his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FIRSummary: The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage, about an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PHAGrisham, John.
Summary: The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIMeissner, Susan
Summary: When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier is happy to take in her sixteen-year-old niece Tally. Practically an orphan, Tally is motherless and her father raises Tally in a haphazard manner--often taking on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a "normal" life. What she doesn't know is that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MEICoble, Colleen
Summary: When Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, there's no time for an adjustment period. He is arrested for theft and then implicated in a recent murder, and Jane quickly realizes she's facing someone out to destroy her father. They escaped from a cult fifteen years ago, and Jane has searched relentlessly for her mother—who refused to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBCohen, Jon
Summary: "When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COHCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COHDyachenko, Serhii
Summary: Disfigured and cursed by a mysterious man after killing an innocent student in a duel, Egert, an egotistical member of an elite guard, embarks on an odyssey to undo the damage he has caused and seeks forgiveness from the student's grief-stricken fiancee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYAKenyon, Sherrilyn
Summary: The complete collection of short stories written for the Dark-Hunter series includes "Phantom Lover" and "Love Bytes" as well as a new, previously unreleased title and tales that have only been published exclusively on the author's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENLovett, Charles C.
Summary: A sequel to "A Christmas Carol" set twenty years after Scrooge's famous reformation finds him teaming up with a returning cast of ghosts to help the restless spirit of Jacob Marley make amends to victimized associates in order to find peace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVMartin, Charles
Summary: Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami. Charlie tries to separate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARMcNeal, Laura Lane.
Summary: "A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in Civil Rights-era New Orleans--a novel of Southern eccentricity, secrets, and laughter. When Ibby Bell's father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's Victorian house is like no place Ibby has ever been--and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mcneal 2014Reeves, Virginia.
Summary: "In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The Yellow Birds), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being sent to prison for manslaughter. Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REESahota, Sunjeev
Summary: "A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diaspora Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAHSummary: Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIUSummary: Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident that took the life of Daniel's daughter. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teen aged grandaughter and Allison seeks redemption, the two discover that friendship, hope, and forgiveness can flourish in unlikely places.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GOOSummary: In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REVSummary: A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TSO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TSO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TSOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSO RATED RDonewald, Anny.
Summary: "An explosive memoir of transformation from a high-end stripper and escort who hit rock-bottom, turned to God, and left the sex trade to found Eve's Angels, a ministry reaching out to women in the sex industry "--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DONEWALD, ANNY DONEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: A man's desire to write his own obituary prior to his death allows him to learn what the world really thinks of him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009