Sims, Laura
Summary: In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSims, Laura
Summary: "No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSams, Laura.
Summary: The story of a one-legged pirate who loses his beloved family heirloom peg leg and vows to find it by following the moving water from the lakes to the rivers to the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carl R. Sams II Photography 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sams 2008Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Batman faces his greatest challenge yet: vacation! The caped crusader reluctantly agrees to let Batgirl and Nightwing take him on a long overdue vacation from crimefighting, while Superman and the Justice League watch over Gotham City. Neither operation goes as planned when Batman's vacation is cut short by dangers from his past and invaders from the center of the earth, and Superman and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeSummary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMManhattan Transfer (Musical group)
Contents: Tuxedo Junction (3:03) -- Sweet talking guy (2:25) -- Operator (3:09) -- Candy (3;26) -- Gloria (2:57) -- Clap your hands (2:55) -- That cat is high (2:53) -- You can depend on me (3:30) -- Blue champagne (2:21) -- Java jive (2:44) -- Occapella (3:04) -- Heart's desire (2:36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1975
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL VOCAL MANContents: Disc one, Bossa Nova Brasilia. Desafinado / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Joao Gilberto) (2:00) -- Dindi / A.C. Jobim, Aloysio de Oliveira (Sylvia Telles) (2:36) -- One Note Samba / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (3:20) -- Chega De Saudade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Elizete Cardoso) (3:29) -- A Felicidade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Agostinho Dos Santos) (2:47)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BOSSummary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COWSummary: Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ENLSummary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore in a male-dominated music industry. Until Ana uses her synthetizers to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHOFauré, Gabriel
Contents: Nocturne in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1 (8:23) -- Impromptu No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 31 (3:24) -- Barcarolle No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 26 (5:11) -- Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 65 (8:54) -- Barcarolle No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 105 (5:08) -- Barcarolle No. 6 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (3:13) -- Barcarolle No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 90 (4:04) -- Barcarolle No. 2 in G Major, Op. 41 (7:14) -- Barcarolle No. 5...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Musical Concepts 2015
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Summary: Two boys deal with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SQU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SQU
Summary: The next installment in the blockbuster franchise follows vampire death dealer Selene as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Originals 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DALaume
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAUOkura
Summary: "Despite belonging to a family of four, the Aoyama residence is typically home to three due to father Akiyoshi's job. While he's away at work, mom Tomoko and her two beloved sons Hiroki and Yuri go about their everyday lives--going to school, making dinner, doing homework, etc. But now that Hiroki's in his first year of high school, his thoughts are turning ever so slightly to sex and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Enix Manga 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 IShura.
Contents: (I) -- Nothing's real -- What's it gonna be? -- Touch -- Kidz 'n stuff -- Indecision -- What happened to us? -- (Ii) -- Tongue tied -- Make it up -- 2shy -- White light.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHUSummary: Thomas, a young German baker, has an affair with Oren, a married Israeli man. After Oren unexpectedly dies in a car crash, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers about his death. Under a fake identity, Thomas enters the life of Anat, his lover's newly widowed wife. There, he begins to work for Anat, baking pastries that bring her cafe to vibrant life. Thomas becomes deeply involved in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAKSummary: Though Pablo is in love with Juan, his affection is not reciprocated. After taking up with Antonio, Pablo temporarily loses his memory when a jealous Antonio seeks out Juan and violence occurs. When Pablo's memory returns he discovers that Antonio has taken up with his sister Tina and he must rescue her, face Antonio, and his desire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009