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Taylor, Victoria.

Summary: Introduces characters created by DC Comics and discusses their amazing powers, including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TAY

Summary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACR

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRI

Summary: The heart-warming true story about an eccentric chicken farmer who, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog to protect a wild penguin sanctuary from fox attacks and in the process tries to reunite his family and save their seaside town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DRY

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

Summary: Two years after the events of season one, Dr. Gemma Foster's husband Simon returns and brings unwelcome complications and instability to Gemma's life and that of her teenage son Tom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOC

Miroshnichenko, Viktoria

Summary: Two young women struggle to rebuild their lives amidst a devastated Leningrad in 1945.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Kaylor, Serena

Summary: "A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Set against the backdrop of the later Roman Republic, a collection of short mystery tales featuring ancient Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder follows the early career of the classical sleuth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Continuing the epic story begun in his "New York Times"-bestselling novel "Roma," Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to the height of Rome's empire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: "In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essentially retired from his previous profession of "Finder" but even he cannot refuse the call of Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Troubled by dreams foretelling disaster and fearing a conspiracy against the life of Caesar, she had hired someone to investigate the rumors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Summary: Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Guardians 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GUA

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUA RATED PG-13

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Julius Caesar, appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate, has pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends. Now Caesar is preparing to leave Rome with his legions to wage a war of conquest against the Parthian Empire. But he has a few more things to do before he goes. Gordianus the Finder, after decades of investigating crimes and murders involving the powerful, has been raised...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: "The young Gordianus has been waiting out the chaos in Alexandria, with Bethesda, when he gets a cryptic message from his former tutor and friend, Antipater. Now in Ephesus, as part of Mithridates' entourage, Antipater seems to think that his life is in imminent danger. To rescue him, Gordianus concocts a daring, even foolhardy, scheme to go behind enemy lines and bring Antipater to safety. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAT

Naylor, Gloria.

Summary: Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1983

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Gordianus the Finder is called to a great Villa to investigate the death of the overseer by two slaves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1992

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Saylor, Steven

Summary: Rome, 80 B.C. and Cicero is about to conduct his first important case, the defense of well-heeled farmer Sextus Roscius against the charge of killing his hated father. Gordianus the finder, hired by Cicero to dig up evidence, soon learns why the elder Roscius was lured to his death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Jestin, Victor

Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JES

Summary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAG

Lawlor, Laurie.

Summary: Living on the nineteenth-century Indiana frontier with his parents and irritable older sister Louise, six-year-old Beansie dreads his first day of school, but his resilience surprises even his sister.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC LAW

Soomro, Taymour

Summary: "A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOO

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