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Summary: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME TAL
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAL RATED PG

Summary: Amidst the World Cup tournament and political turmoil of 1970, twelve-year-old Mauro must adjust to living in his Jewish grandfather's multi-ethnic neighborhood after his left-wing parents are forced into hiding.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Media 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEA

Bjørk, Samuel

Summary: Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers 2018

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Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THA

Preus, Margi.

Summary: In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PRE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PRE

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak)

Summary: "The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAB

Summary: "Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UND

Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PER

Summary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAB

Summary: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAT

Foges, Clare

Summary: At night when you are sleeping there's a party in your house. It's a pumping, jumping, funky bash when all the lights go out ... When the sun goes down, the Kitchen Disco starts up - and all the fruit in the fruit bowl come out to play! There are lemons who break-dance, tangerines who twirl and some very over-excited apples!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber Limited 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE FOG

Dinesen, Isak

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIN

Summary: A tall girl and a short guy are cast together in a romantic comedy at their school and find that they have strong feelings for each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOV

Faruqi, Reem

Summary: Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Carman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FAR

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

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Summary: "The Aldens are helping out at a harvest festival in a town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. But something in the hills is scaring people away! Are the local rumors about a werewolf true?"--Page 4 of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018

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Ozeki, Ruth L.

Summary: Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZE

Saadawi, Aḥmad

Summary: After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAA

Summary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAR

Preus, Margi.

Summary: In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PRE

Galland, Nicole

Summary: "From the author of The Fool's Tale comes a brilliantly-crafted retelling of Shakespeare's Othello in which the "true" motivations of literature's greatest villain, Iago, are revealed"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow Paperbacks 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Bjørk, Samuel

Summary: "The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BJO

Nesbø, Jo

Summary: "Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series that includes The Bat, The Snowman, and, most recently, Police. In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NES

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nesbo 2017

Khan, Hena

Summary: Yasmeen has a wonderful time celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with her family and friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KHA (Basket)

Pileggi, Leah.

Summary: In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PIL

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