Senft, Adina.
Summary: As romance blossoms between her and Eli Fischer, Amelia Beiler is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and faces a hard choice, since she will be shunned by her Amish community if she gets the treatment she wants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Senft 2011Summary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWESummary: "The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors -- a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIOSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLASummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIRissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISSummary: Phoolan Devi was a murderer, kidnapper and living folk legend who had endured a life of rape and abuse after beng sold into marriage at the age of eleven. A spree of murders known as the Behmai Massacre to avenge the death of her lover made Devi the object of a police hunt. In prison from 1983 until 1994, she spent years being prosecuted by the Indian police, only to be turned into a legend by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIGeffen, Adiva
Summary: "Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate...She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland...This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought... WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Adiva Geffen] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GeffenJaigirdar, Adiba
Summary: "Welcome to the first ever Junior Irish Baking Show!" Shireen Malik is still reeling from the breakup with her ex-girlfriend, Chris, when she receives news that she's been accepted as a contestant on a new televised baking competition show. This is Shireen's dream come true! Because winning will not only mean prize money, but it will also bring some much-needed attention to You Drive Me Glazy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAISeny
Summary: "The Initiation Exam throws an unexpected curveball at young Saigami candidates, including Ayumi, who has arrived in this strange fantasy world under mysterious circumstances. While these young, powerful teenagers have no way of knowing, the contest strings are being pulled from the shadows, putting their future careers--and their lives--in jeopardy. Ayumi and the others will have to act fast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SAIHalpern, Adena.
Summary: When young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old Ellie Jerome finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, she wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a wish like that to come true?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALSenf, Lora
Summary: To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SENAdiga, Aravind
Summary: A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Adiga 2020Adiga, Aravind.
Summary: Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize--winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATAdams, Alina
Summary: "Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADAAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdams, Alina.
Summary: "Desperate to locate her missing granddaughter, businesswoman Lucinda Walsh hires Henry Coleman for the job. Two years ago, Lucy Montgomery kidnapped her infant half brother Johnny in order to protect him from their manipulative father, Craig Montgomery, and Johnny's equally ruthless uncle, Paul Ryan. Now, both Craig and Paul are hot on Lucy's trail and it's up to Henry and his socialite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COLGrabowski, Alina
Summary: "Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a bright young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP Lit, a Zando imprint 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLETysoe, Alina
Summary: "A precocious puppy with a penchant for solving mysteries is newly adopted into a family, causing havoc for their comfortable housecat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: "Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts outthat she's in a relationship...with a girl her friends absolutely hate--Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021