Summary: Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 9Summary: An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 15Summary: Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CURSummary: Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HEICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 1Jones, Darynda
Summary: "In a small village in New York Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSummary: Although this film takes its title from the popular children's book, the two stories are unrelated. In the movie, a child performer becomes a pawn in the fight to exploit her talents on radio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FoxVideo 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 5Le Carre, John
Summary: Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction LeCarre 2017Le Carre, John.
Summary: John le Carre returns with a riveting new book, his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LECSummary: Shirley Clarke was brilliant, scandalous, bold, and incredibly talented. Had she been a man, film historians would have long ago placed her in the pantheon of great auteurs, alongside Orson Welles and John Cassavetes. Today, her triumph can be recognized in her ability to be herself--one of the great originals of her time. A true artist, Clarke combined her innate impishness and sense of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAGGoerz, Gillian
Summary: "Jamila Waheed does not want to spend her first summer in a new neighborhood at science camp when she could be shooting hoops at the local basketball court. And Shirley Bones is looking for a summer of freedom too. When the two girls meet, they quickly figure out a solution for each other's predicaments: Their moms agree to let them spend the summer together, hanging out on the basketball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NATMenon, Sandhya
Summary: Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few...quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENSummary: In The naked gun Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. In Top secret an American rock star teams up with the daughter of a scientist to find the scientist before he creates the ultimate weapon, in this spoof of war epics and Elvis films. In Airplane Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Naked 2007Steele, Michael Anthony
Summary: "When Harley ruins the Riddler's carefully constructed scheme to capture Batman, she's determined to show the calculating crook that she's no bad-luck jinx. She'll use her brilliantly bonkers mind to write confounding rhymes of her own!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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Summary: Shortly after his initiation into the Order of the Knights Templar, Sir Hugh St. Clair is drawn into the turbulence of the First Crusade and joins with fellow members of the Order to uncover the roots of the secret society that has guided his family for generations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHYWhyte, Jack.
Summary: After King Philip IV of France declares the Templar knights outlaws and by way of murder and imprisonment seizes their assets, Sir William Sinclair leads the survivors to temporary sanctuary in Scotland, where they team up with Robert Bruce and after a rousing victory at Bannockburn seek out the fabled land of Templar lore--Merica.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHYJones, Darynda
Summary: "A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper, Charley has to balance the good, the bad, the undead, and those who want her dead. In this eleventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JONMadden, Colleen M.
Summary: "Shelley Frankenstein is a little girl with a rather infamous family heritage! She loves to be scared and assumes all other kids feel the same. To prove her theory, Shelley and her assistant brother, Iggy, set about creating new toys to horrify their playground peers. But all of their experiments backfire in a completely unexpected way. What a disappointment! Then one day, they stumble upon a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADJones, Darynda.
Summary: "Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out the jugular of Charley Davidson and serve her lifeless, mangled body to Satan for dinner. So there's that. But Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more she retraces his last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONJones, Darynda
Summary: Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones' New York Times bestselling paranormal series! Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed . She's been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity -which is exactly the amount of time it takes to make a person stark, raving mad. But someone's looking out for her, and she's allowed to return after a mere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M FIC JONJones, Darynda.
Summary: "Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONJones, Darynda
Summary: Part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do I get gum out of my sister's hair before she wakes up? But, "How do I trap not one god, but three?" was never among them. Until now. And since those gods are on earth to kill her daughter, she has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016