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Halley. Hopkinson, Deborah Sateren, Shelley Swanson Sharpley, G.D.A Tanaka, ShelleySummary: The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SECSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: When they are not fighting with each other Alfie Wolfe and his twin sister Alfreeda help out with their mother's dog hotel business--but just now he is faced with a friendly pug called Twinkles, and an aggressive Golden Retriever, named Gracie, who seems to regard him as a threat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Alfie Wolfe and his twin sister Alfreeda enjoy helping out at the family's Hound Hotel--but this time they have very different ideas about what to do with a Yorkshire terrier suffering from separation anxiety.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Twins Alfie and Alfreeda are charged with getting Molly the West Highland white terrier fully groomed in time for her owner's wedding, where she will wear a collar bearing the wedding rings--the trouble is that Molly hates being groomed and has apparently buried the collar somewhere at the Hound Hotel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Twins Alfie and Alfreeda are trying to cope with Freddie, a beagle who is terrified of thunder during a particularly stormy week at the Hound Hotel--and Alfie is astonished realize that his normally bossy sister shares Freddie's fear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SATSummary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: A child struggles to write a story until he finds inspiration outside his window.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPHalley.
Contents: Adventures of George and the robbers -- Heart attack on a one way street -- Movie song (trailer theme) -- Peninsula Pomegranate Pendegrass -- Redlightgreenlight -- As cheap as fake -- ... -- Herkimer battle jettne -- Living from a heart palpatation -- The last word is a silent vowel -- Movie song (love theme) -- Kites are slow downers.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hooked on Songs 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HALSummary: Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHATanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Tabitha Catarina's world revolves around cats, and there are certainly plenty of them at Tabby Towers, her grandparents' cat hotel, but she would really like to have her Himalayan cat, Bootsie, with her too--trouble is that Bootsie proves to be unexpectedly and implacably hostile to the other cats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Alfie Wolfe is a lot messier than his twin sister Alfreeda, but he may have met his match in Dudley, an English bulldog with a serious drool problem--and it is up to Alfie to care for and clean up after him at the Hound Hotel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Alfie Wolfe's dislike of baths, and his habit of wearing shoes without socks, has resulted in a case of stinky feet--but they may be just the thing to keep Stanley, a Labrador retriever with a fondness for dead fish, from trying to run away from the Hound Hotel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone Press 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Alfie Wolfe thinks his twin sister is a pain, and they are constantly getting into fights, until he observes how patiently the German shepherd Crosby at the Hound Hotel behaves with his annoying little "brother" puppy, Bruno.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATSateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Alfie Wolfe is put out because his twin sister is actually stronger than he is--but not even Alfreeda can deal with Murphy, a powerful Rottweiler with an obsession about the cow next door, by herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SATContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PLA NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 3Sateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Tabitha Catarina is staying at her grandparents' farm/cat hotel for the summer, and she is thrilled when the owner of Queen Lizzie's Pizza Palace brings Queen Lizzie, a Sphynx cat, to Tabby Towers to stay because Lizzie keeps jumping up on the counter too close to the food--but her owner is sad, so Tabitha sets out to research this bad behavior and come up with a solution that will allow Lizzie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone Imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SATSharpley, G.D.A
Summary: A guide to learning Latin offers lessons on Latin vocabulary and grammar, with practice exercises, reading selections, and suggestions for students.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 478.2421 LATSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. Regina has ensnared Bligh patriarch and political aspirant George in marriage, but she continues to plot against Sarah, exploiting the rising fear of Communism to target her rival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 4Summary: In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WATSummary: Carousel: (50th Anniversary edition) On the coast of Maine, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARSummary: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and Hammerstein first teamed up in 1943 for the prairie tale Oklahoma!, with songs including "Oh,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006