Rahman, Bahram
Summary: Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. A sensitive author's note addresses the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MORSummary: Comedy about an organizationally impaired temporary assistant who gets her first pemanent job at the age of 31 working for a curator of an art gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IVESummary: Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRISummary: Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BILLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BillySummary: In her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sixteen Films 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLASummary: Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: A searing portrait of the self-absorbed English artist Francis Bacon at the height of his fame in the 1960s and his tumultuous love affair with his self-destructive lover George Dyer, a would-be thief whom Bacon discovered one night as the young man attempted to burgle Bacon's studio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVSummary: This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions, and mischievous women put love to the test, with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANSamuelson, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.455 SAMCouncil, Mimi
Summary: "The author of The Mountain Baker takes her motto-"Desserts for everyone!"-to the next level with these allergy-friendly bakes. One of the most common allergens after dairy and peanuts, eggs are often thought to be a necessity in baking. But what eggs do contribute to your sweets-fat, flavor, structure, fluffiness, moisture-can actually be found in countless alternative ingredients that are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company Independent Publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56318 COUArts, Tenille
Contents: Back then right now -- That's my friend you're talking about -- One bedroom apartment -- Breakup songs / feat. Callista Clark -- Life goes like that -- Girl t girl -- Heartbreak regulars -- Mama's boy -- Over you is you / feat. Matt Stell -- Give it to me straight -- High school sweetheart -- Sweet sixteen -- Growing old young.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ARTAries
Contents: Lágrimas I -- Eclipse total -- La fuerza del sonido -- Nieve de noche -- Memorias -- En el océano -- Nuestra casa -- El paseo -- Lágrimas II -- Adieu or die.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARIActus
Summary: After standing around in the afterlife for thousands of years, Noah Vines is all out of patience. So, when the opportunity to steal a second chance at life arises, he doesn't hesitate. Reincarnated into the body of a dying magic school professor, Noah finds that he got more than just a second chance, he got infinite. Every time he dies, his body reforms. With countless variations of runic magic...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ACTArco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ArcoKing's Own Scottish Borderers
Contents: Amazing grace (3:29) -- Medley: the skye boat song ; Highland cradle song (3:45) -- Medley: my love she's but a lassie yet ; The bluebells of Scotland (2:52) -- Blue bonnets o'er the border (2:53) -- Campbeltown Loch (1:34) -- Medley: Mairi's wedding ; The black bear (2:18) -- Scotch on the rocks (2:51) -- The dark island (3:03) -- Medley: the march of the Cameron men ; Horo my nut brown maiden...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fiesta 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN KINFamily Arts Theater
Contents: Where do you keep your brain ? -- Double, double, toil and trouble -- Skeleton Jones -- Do the growl -- Boogie woogie man -- The Transylvania polka -- Monster's lullaby -- It's Halloween.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Arts Theater 1995
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1 available in Sight and Sound Halloween Display, Call number: CD HOL FAMPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROAerts, Jef
Summary: Adin and Dina are best friends. They live in the beautiful countryside surrounded by cherry trees. Their favorite game is to plant cherry pits around their little village - in the cracks in the sidewalk and in the flowerbeds outside the post office. Then one day Adin and his family move away to the city. Will Adin and Dina's friendship survive the new distance between them? In this beautifully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AERAris, Pepita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5946 ARIHenderson, Artis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014