Summary: 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 TWISummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A rash of brutal murders sweeps a quiet rural village where a mysterious stranger just appeared. When the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he consults a shaman for answers, unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAIShteyngart, Gary
Summary: In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted territory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELKim, Hye-Ja
Summary: After her simple-minded son is tried and convicted for murder, a single mother, believing her son to be innocent, sets out to find the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTShteyngart, Gary
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTShteyngart, Gary
Summary: When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANPon, Cindy
Summary: Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONGiffen, Keith
Summary: Suddenly the horror is real, the world has been transformed into a monster-filled wasteland and Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the run. But what if the cause of the apocalypse is one of their own? The gang's resident brainiac, Velma, has been hiding a dark secret, one that could change the fate of the world--and separate her from her friends forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SCOShteyngart, Gary
Summary: Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3-year-old-son's diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart, whom he hasn't seen or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHTShteyngart, Gary
Summary: "It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTShteyngart, Gary.
Summary: The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan , Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years--and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. In a very near future--oh,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Summary: In the run-up to Christmas Eve, organizer of book-themed tea parties Callie Aspen and her lovable Boston terrier will have to conquer threefold trouble--a mysterious will, a missing heirloom and a dead body--to restore the festive spirit to their small town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AVOWon, Brian
Summary: While Turtle seeks his favorite book, each of his friends offers his or her favorite to thank him for sharing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONWon, Brian.
Summary: Elephant wakes up in a grumpy mood, but a present on his doorstep--a hat--cheers him and he sets out to greet his neighbors who all, it seems, need hats of their own.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONPon, Cindy
Summary: "Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONPon, Cindy
Summary: With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PONSummary: American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATSummary: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to Deborah, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAMSaramago, Jos.
Summary: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Inc. 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young Guns : The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators, declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage, they are branded outlaws, becoming the objects of the largest manhunt in Western history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN YOUJong, Erica.
Summary: "As the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, fifteen years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discovering that beginnings are easy, but endings can be hard. Could her fountain of youth fantasies be fulfilled on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015