Summary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Browne, S. G. (Scott G.)
Summary: "A radically funny, irreverent, satirical novel about a loan shark who is able to steal people's luck--perfect for fans of bestselling authors Christopher Moore and Chuck Palahniuk. Nick Monday is a private detective with a penchant for coffeehouse baristas and the ability to steal other people's luck. Politicians and celebrities. Lottery winners and game show contestants. Accident survivors...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: One night, Claire and her toy unicorn, Capricorn, journey to a magical land filled with characters from fairy tales to find out what makes someone live "happy ever after."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HENBrowne, S. G. (Scott G.)
Summary: Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Abandoned by his friends and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and meets a few kindred souls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrowne, S. G. (Scott G.)
Summary: It's a grind, working the Fate Radar and the Fate Generator program and reporting to Jehovah--know here as Jerry--who believes Fate's work has grown sloppy. Even his no-contact romance with Destiny has become distinctly unfulfilling. Then he falls in forbidden love with human Sara Griffen, and once he reveals his true self to her, their relationship is drastically transformed, and, naturally,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: Tells how every single person helps make the world a kinder and more peaceful place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Hennessy 2005Hennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: Corduroy the teddy bear sets out one night to find a birthday present for his owner, Lisa, but soon realizes that he cannot find his way home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FreemHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: Corduroy's friends help him celebrate his birthday with a surprise party, cake, and lots of fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E FREHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: As Cinderella and Prince Charming visit six fairy tale lands on their honeymoon trip, the reader can follow along using maps and directions, helping to find hidden wedding gifts and other objects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction HennessyHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: Counts things associated with a harvest feast in colonial Plymouth Colony, including pilgrims, Wampanoags, nuts, squash, and, of course, turkeys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE HENSummary: Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redfines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Wilson, S. G.
Summary: "There's a rip in the multiverse that's causing chaos across dimensions, and it's up to Average Me, one of Meade Meacon's multiple versions, to save the multiverse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Meade Macon attends Me Con, a convention where he meets different versions of himself from across the multiverse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILHennessy, B. G.
Summary: Corduroy and his friends help the Easter Bunny by decorating eggs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E FRESummary: Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the servants at Tottney Castle have a betting pool on who Lady Alyce will choose. Features the Academy Award-winning dance number "Fun house" with Astaire, Burns and Allen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DAMFirmani, B. G.
Summary: Enrolling in Barnard in gritty 1980s New York City, sassy blue-collar freshman Chess forges a toxic relationship with a drama-queen classmate before accepting work as an assistant to a literary intellectual and falling in love with her employer's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIRTrudeau, G. B.
Summary: This Doonesbury collection about Donald Trump offers strips from the 1980s to 2016.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRUMeier, S. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arete Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEI1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC MEI
Divya, S. B.
Summary: In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIVContents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: "The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A gracious society matron decides to give her husband one last chance, but soon his ex-mistress shows up, brewing trouble and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EASSummary: An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020