Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOSummary: The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIDBrijean
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRIBrimax.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brimax Publishing 0000
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD BRIBejan, Adrian
Summary: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BEJArrian.
Summary: During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests is the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world. --from publisher description
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2012
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Contents: Strange neighbourhood -- Antidawn -- Shadow paradise -- New love -- Upstairs flat.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BURBurial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BuriaSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THARucka, Greg
Summary: In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LAZTurano, Jen
Summary: "Miss Permilia Griswold may have been given the opportunity of a debut into New York high society, but no one warned her she wasn't guaranteed to "take." After spending the last six years banished to the wallflower section of the ballroom, she's finally putting her status on the fringes of society to good use by penning anonymous society gossip columns under the pseudonym "Miss Quill." Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TURSummary: A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDTurano, Jen
Summary: Miss Gertrude Cadwalader hoped her position as the paid companion to Mrs. Davenport would be easy. But as she becomes acquainted with her employer, she realizes the wealthy Mrs. Davenport has a strange tendency to be a bit light-fingered with other people's trinkets. Gertrude is relieved when Mrs. Davenport decides to have a quiet summer away from the social scene--until the woman changes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TURErian, Alicia.
Summary: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIToss, Brion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8882 TOSBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRALoewinsohn, Briana
Summary: "Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOEWINSOHN, BRIA LOEBrin, David.
Summary: After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Place a hold to request this item.Brin, David.
Summary: Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrion, Jon
Contents: Title credits -- Sign up -- Drive home -- Lb / Danny -- Pick up -- Lady bird kiss -- Rose garden -- Lb steals math grade book -- Thanksgiving in Sacramento -- Coffe shop -- Hope -- More hope -- Consolation -- Hope against hope -- Model homes -- Maybe -- Looking forward -- Summer in Sacramento -- Packing up -- Leaving -- Hope? -- Reconcile -- Lady bird.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeshore Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LADChatten, Grian
Contents: The score -- Last time every time forever -- Fairlies -- Bob's casino -- All of the people -- East coast bed -- Salt throwers off a truck -- I am so far -- Season for pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHAMcDonald, Briana
Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020