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Summary: "Almost everyone in Swine Hill is haunted. Jane's ghost tells her what everyone around her is thinking, even when she doesn't want to know. The lonely spirit possessing her mother burns anyone she touches. Her brother Henry's genius ghost forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. When pig people appear in town, taking precious jobs at the pork processing plant and enraging the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICGilligan, Ruth
Summary: "Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter. The Butchers' Blessing moves between the events of 1996 and the present, offering a simmering glimpse into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILSummary: A realistic drama depicting students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: After a young skateboarder accidentally kills a security guard in self-defense with his skateboard at Paranoid Park, he falls into a world of crime, guilt, and fear. He desperately attempts to get out as the investigation into the crime deepens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARBledsoe, Lucy Jane
Summary: Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLEMargolin, Phillip
Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2014Summary: A sketch-comedy series that parodies life in Portland, Oregon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unobstructed View Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The hit sketch comedy driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon--where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATKozikoğlu, Tülin
Summary: "This is the story of two parallel journeys in cities far apart. A mother and a son leave their home for a better day, while a father and a daughter leave their home for a safer day. The concerns of the parents are almost the same as they watch over their kids, but their experiences are sadly very different. The father and daughter are fleeing a city devastated by war, leaving their home--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Includes all ten episodes of the second season of Portlandia, the hit sketch comedy series created and written by, and starring Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live and Carrie Brownstein from the band Sleater-Kinney. This season, the two continue skewering the weird and wonderful residents of Portland, Oregon, as well as hipsters everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Video Services Corp. 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORSummary: In the wake of Monroe and Rosalee's wedding, things have never been more chaotic. Nick, having lost his Grimm abilities, must dig deep and decide what type of person he wants to be. With Captain Renard in critical condition after being gravely injured and Juliette trying to come to grips with Nick's recent betrayal, the world of Grimm is spiraling out of control more than ever. Watch all 22...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRIJackson, Lisa
Summary: A tight-knit high school 'It' clique takes a dark turn when one member is lost to a tragedy. But it's only the first inn a series of misfortunes as the friends become frenemies, and the girtl become women who wonder who will be the last one standing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC JACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JACJackson, Lisa
Summary: At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora. At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year,Tanner Stahd, the school daredevil, led a group down an embankment toward the river. One student was barely rescued in time to save his life. Carmen rushed to save him, but wasn't so lucky. Her sudden death was mourned; rumors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JACSummary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: "A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie to the secrets of her late father's past. She takes to the countryside, where horses run free, true love really exists, and Natalie discovers her own past and an enlightened future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Thicker 2006Summary: At the heels of his mother's beheading and Juliette's "death", Nick's life has taken a turn he never expected. Having lost so much, Nick must now come to grips with fathering a child with his once sworn enemy, Adalind. With even more dangerous Wesen coming out of the shadows, the Black claw uprising Team Grimm has been dreading is approaching in full force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRISummary: Now that the nefarious forces of Black Claw have been silenced, Nick faces an all too familiar foe in Captain Sean Renard. Having gained a seat of power as the mayor elect of Portland, Renard is poised to bring rise to his own brand of law and order. Nick must take a stand to protect his city and those closest to him, especially his child with Adalind. It will take the full force of Nick and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRIMargolin, Phillip.
Summary: A top county prosecutor from Oregon is accused of murdering her estranged husband, Justice Robert Griffen, soon after the mysterious death of Griffen's female law clerk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARVlautin, Willy
Summary: "Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she's been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland's housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it's their last best chance to own their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC VLASummary: Now fully embracing his identity as a Grimm, Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt tackles even more gruesome and bizarre crimes linked to creatures of lore. With the help of his partner Hank and Wesen confidants Monroe and Rosalee, Nick must face an ancient royal bloodline linked to the mysterious Captain Renard, all while fighting to keep from losing the love of his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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Summary: Three siblings searching for the truth about their family are about to find more than they bargained for. When shy and reserved Maggie Ferringer was called for jury duty, she never expected to be kidnapped by an escaped convict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013