Summary: In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOLSummary: In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun. Hoping for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, the Cylons. But after an act of treachery, the Cylons launch a devasting surprise attack, destroying the Colonies' home planet. A lone flagship, the Galactica, remains...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: The world's favorite blue hedgehog is back for a next-level adventure in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2. After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PEA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PEA
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Peanut 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PEASummary: When a small-town sheriff discovers Sonic, a talking hedgehog with amazing abilities, he sets out to save him from the evil Dr. Robotnik.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SONSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELSummary: Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization controlled by his father, a man who gained immortality and the desire for unlimited power when he acquired an ancient artifact centuries ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAY RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BAYSchwarz, Liesel.
Summary: Set during the Belle Époque in a Europe where mythological beings interact with modern scientists and aviators, spunky dirigible pilot Elle Chance and handsome warlock Marsh face off against a shadowy band of alchemists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: When a young married couple buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INTSu, Tong
Summary: "In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learned to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then, one day, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labor on a project of terrifying ambition and scale - the building of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSummary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHAlmhjell, Tone
Summary: After a mysterious key arrives for her, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal that ever loved a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, thepet she buried under the rosebush and together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALMSchwarz, Christina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Christina.
Summary: Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2008
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Schwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchFisscher, Tiny
Summary: "An honest and simple exploration of death and grief for kids 4 to 8. With playful illustrations by a therapist-turned-artist, Bird is Dead uses humor to make death a more approachable topic. An honest and simple exploration of death and grief for kids 4 to 8. With playful illustrations by a therapist-turned-artist, Bird is Dead uses humor to make death a more approachable topic."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Christie, Tory
Summary: When the lights go out in her house fourth-grader and middle child Curious starts to consider the whole phenomenon of electricity and how it is created--but one of her younger brothers, John Glenn McCarthy, sees her scientific research as an opportunity for practical jokes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHRSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIMSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSchwarz, Christina.
Summary: Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000