Summary: Gloria is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GLOPinter, Jason.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINPinter, Jason
Summary: "On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PINBittel, Jason
Summary: "Shine a spotlight on animal species throughout history and the ones alive today in Animals Lost and Found, through beautiful illustrations and interesting facts. Children will learn about animals lost to extinction, animals we thought we'd lost but have found, and animals that are the focus of conservation efforts all over the world. This educational book for children aged 7+ is packed with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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Summary: A gorgeously illustrated book all about the Arctic and Antarctic, for young animal and conservation enthusiasts. Enter the world of the Arctic and Antarctic for an incredible journey around Earth's icy poles. Polar bears, penguins, and ice glide across the pages of this colourful book, which combines gorgeous illustrations and photos to help young enthusiasts learn all about the Arctic and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Limited 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590.911 BITBittel, Jason
Summary: "Ever wanted to talk to a tiger? Or chatter with a cheetah? Or yak with a yak? This book brings together a babble of more than 100 beasties and explores the amazing ways they talk to each other. From fish that fart to alligators that dunk to fire worms that flash, you'll discover that wildlife have the strangest ways of sending a message"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.59 BITMass, Wendy
Summary: On "Take Your Kid to Work Day," eight-year-old Archie discovers that his father drives a space taxi that shuttles aliens from one area of the universe to another.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.8 MYRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 MYRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal Pet MyronMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8092 MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8092 MYRSummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Vicki Myron presents the follow-up to her successful memoir about Spencer Public Library's cat, Dewey Readmore Books. Here she details how this small-town library cat has inspired and touched so many people's lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 636.8 MYR1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.8 MYR
Myron, Vicki.
Summary: This volume contains inspiring, funny, and heartwarming stories about cats told from the perspective of Dewey's Mom, librarian Myron. Includes never-before-told stories about Dewey, along with other touching cat tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 MYRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 636.80 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller. It spawned three children's books, and is the basis for an upcoming movie. Now Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share. Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about amazing felines - including Dewey - all told from the perspective of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8 MYRSummary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWSummary: The epic Predator legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRERichter, Max
Contents: Europe, after the rain (6:13) -- Maria, the poet (1913) (4:49) -- Laika's journey (1:29) -- The twins (Prague) (1:58) -- Sarajevo (4:03) -- Andras (2:42) -- Untitled (figures) (3:27) -- Sketchbook (1:56) -- November (6:23) -- Jan's notebook (2:39) -- Arbenita (11 years) (7:07) -- Garden (1973)/interior (3:25) -- Landscape with figure (1922) (5:14) -- Fragment (1:27) -- Lines on a page (one...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fatcat Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RICSummary: An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WITAstatke, Mulatu
Contents: Radcliffe -- Green Africa -- The way to Nice -- Assosa -- I faram gami i faram -- Mulatu's mood -- Ethio blues -- Boogaloo -- Motherland.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ASTMyron, Vicki
Summary: "In the tradition of Marley: A Dog Like No Other, this is the story of a cat who was more than a pet, and the amazing effect he had on the people around him. This middle-grade adaptation of the Grand Central bestseller Dewey features an 8-page photo insert, including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew! Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.8 MYRSummary: The Wonder Pets find themselves inside the pages of the book of the Mouse King, where they must save the nutcracker, set to music by Tchaikovsky. Includes three additional episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WONSummary: The Wonder Pets head to India to save a Bengal Tiger who's got a thorn stuck in her paw. Then, travel to Costa Rica for a play date with a Baby Gecko who can't seem to stay out of trouble and help the heroes save a mystery animal. Next, fish out a little Ladybug trapped inside a Venus flytrap and head off to Japan to help a Baby Sea Turtle find a path to the ocean. Last, A gaggle of Goslings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WONSummary: Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DENSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018