Summary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSteggall, Susan.
Summary: Uses rhyming text to follow different construction vehicles, including bulldozers, diggers, and trucks, as they build a group of houses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE STEClement, Jemaine
Summary: A folk music/comedy duo from New Zealand try to make it big in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLIStovall, Jim.
Summary: When his great uncle dies, the young, rather arrogant, Jason must repeatedly return to the attorney's office for a series of videotaped life lessons in order to earn his million dollar inheritance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STONolen, Jerdine.
Summary: A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Nolen 1998Nolen, Jerdine.
Summary: A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOLNolen, Jerdine.
Summary: In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC NOLErmine, Will
Summary: "Salem Hardesty was on the move. Ever since his boys had been attacked by the Sioux, Salem suspected Rafe Perrine of smuggling guns to the Indians. Now -- with Glenna's father gone -- he was sure. Salem wanted Perrine and his gang of rustlers -- and he wanted them dead."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1994. 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC NOLNolen, Jerdine.
Summary: In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PLANolen, Jerdine.
Summary: Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOLSummary: Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEABestor-Siegal, Amanda
Summary: Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family--a dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving from a profoundly talented new writer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: As he prepares for his wedding to Rachel Gilbert, the girl he has been with for twelve years, Adam Newman begins to question everything when Rachel's fiercely independent and beautiful young cousin moves home from New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voice / Hyperion 2012
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Summary: After working hard on his garden all spring and summer, Rabbit looks forward to harvest time when he can make soup, but every carrot disappears and Rabbit must find out who has taken them. Includes a recipe for carrot soup.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SEGSummary: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: A young pig tries to avoid taking a bath by claiming to be a variety of characters, from an astronaut to an Eskimo, as his mother tries to lure him into the tub.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SEGBestor-Siegal, Amanda
Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BESSummary: The year is 1958: Rev. Will Davenport is at odds with his own ideals when Leonard Finch is caught up in a scandal. It will take all of Will's skill and empathy to navigate the choppy waters and help the ones he loves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Grantchester 2021Segal, Erich
Summary: The love between wealthy Oliver Barrett IV and working-class beauty Jenny Cavilleri allows them to overcome their differences, but cannot help them when tragedy strikes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGSegal, Francesca
Summary: "A wry, tender novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary choices. Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him somuch. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: A collection of 9 films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growing as above, so below, growing into your future and your past rather than forgetfully forward. These films deny the idea of art for art's sake and do not exist in self-designed aesthetic vacuums. Their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOSummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008