White, Richard Antoine
Summary: "From the streets of Baltimore to the halls of the New Mexico Philharmonic, a musician shares his remarkable story in I'm Possible, an inspiring memoir of perseverance and possibility. Growing up, Richard Antoine White and his mother didn't have a key toa room or a house. Sometimes they had shelter, but they never had a place to call home. Still, they always had each other, and from a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, RICHARD ANTOINE WHIBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEAPorter, Bill
Summary: n 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the time, it was believed that the Cultural Revolution had dealt a lethal blow to all religions in China, destroying countless temples and shrines, and forcibly returning thousands of monks and nuns to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSummary: Curious case of Benjamin Button : Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 4FISummary: In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMMSummary: Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COLSummary: Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel decides to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrives in Kenya where he is joined by his girlfriend. But discovering Africa as a tourist is not enough for Gabriel. He decides to go deeper, leaving on his own for a journey across countries, new friendships and raw emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GABSummary: A timely documentary that raises urgent questions about how we travel and the unintended cultural and environmental consequences of tourism around the globe. Gringo Trails follows well-worn travelers' routes through Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan and reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures, such as the host countries' need for financial security and the tourists who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: A night in Terror Tower: Sue and Eddie are out sightseeing at the infamous Terror Tower when the wax figures in the Tower's torture chambers start to move. Suddenly the two are traveling back in time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRindell, Suzanne.
Summary: Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong's wedding when a terrified young man comes running the country lane toward them wearing nothing at all. The encounter leads them to become embroiled with a naturist group, a disappearing corpse, fantasy games, witchcraft, an ice cream empire, intrigue, and murder. In meantime, Agatha's private detective agency is as busy as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEADeng, Ming-Dao.
Summary: For the first time in one volume—an extraordinary spiritual odyssey of the making of the Taoist master Kwan Saihung. Born into a wealthy family in a remote province of China, Kwan defies his parents' wishes and enters into the rigorous and mysterious discipline of Taoist practice. Renamed "Little Butterfly" by his Taoist masters, he survives the upheaval of the Japanese occupation, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KWAN, SAIHUNG DENBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Devil's Delight. Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAMcKinty, Adrian.
Summary: "Colonial New Guinea--1906: a small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members--Max Lutzow--has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertsh©œhe raises suspicions of foul play. Recruited to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McKinty 2014Summary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSprinkle, Patricia Houck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SPRSundstol, Vidar
Summary: "A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior--right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNSummary: Four groups of people are linked by a chain of events. A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BabelSummary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INHamrick, Janice.
Summary: "Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And that's only the beginning. From the guide who always seems to be off on his cell phone having the most urgent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMOlguín, Sergio
Summary: "Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bitter Lemon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLGSummary: Follows the trials and tribulations of a busload of tourists who get stranded in an abandoned mining town in the middle of the African desert. After a fine bout of partying, they fall prey to the heat, isolation, and fear of death that pushes them to the extremes of introspection and emotional exploration. And in a beautifully futile gesture, they begin to rehearse a production of Shakespeare's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINSummary: Intertwining stories of four people living in and visiting Rome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012