Summary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRISummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCCisneros, Ernesto
Summary: Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won't change things at home, not without each other's help. This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A fictional account of eleven-year-old Viviani Joffre Fedeler, who was born and raised in the New York Public Library, and her older brothers and best friend Eva, who all try and find out if the library is haunted."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBTubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: Luna has always wanted to be a therapy dog at Therapy Dogs Worldwide. Now she's a whisker away from reaching her fifty-visit pin that will make it official. But when her "clients"--the children who visit her--are put into a therapy group, Luna's routine is upended. Like the moon, Luna shows different faces at different times. And her clients each have different needs--Beatrice is tangled in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBCisneros, Ernesto
Summary: While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CISTubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: "Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Tubb 2017Tubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBTubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: "Zeus, a German shepherd, is assigned to Madden as a diabetic alert dog and must help him navigate middle school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: After being struck by purple lightning, Ms. Linda and her students gain superpowers and in an effort to save the world, they nearly destroy it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEEArness, James
Summary: Follows the adventures of Marshall Matt Dillon as he brings law and order to Dodge City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNLustig, Arnost
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUSArness, James
Summary: Follows the lives of the Macahans, a family living in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOWLee, Honest
Summary: Tired of being left out of everything, Classroom 13 itself puts out a bowl of cursed candy on Halloween that changes everyone into the costume he or she is wearing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEEHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Classics 1997
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Summary: Tyrone Stokes was imprisoned for shooting a man in a convenience store. His wife, Pauline, saw her chance to end their marriage and raise their son, Marcus, on her own. Now Tyrone has returned to Brownsville, Louisiana, to discover that Marcus needs help. Marcus has been convicted of the rape and murder of a young white girl.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILCline, Ernest.
Summary: "Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLIHemingway, Ernest
Summary: An American's love for an English nurse during the First World War ends in tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P HEMHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, "A Farewell to Arms "is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hemingway 2012Hemingway, Ernest
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HEMHemingway, Ernest
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HEMArness, James
Summary: Follows the adventures of Marshall Matt Dillon as he brings law and order to Dodge City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2010