Summary: Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them, and caught three sly creatures to get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHYZemach, Harve.
Summary: The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1973
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ZEMShulevitz, Uri
Summary: A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1978
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHUClare, Cassandra.
Summary: When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CLACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAHarrison, David L. (David Lee)
Summary: When Dog wakes up early, in the middle of the night, he launches all the other farm animals in a worried search for the missing sun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN HARSummary: Happy feet: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Happy 2013Summary: Where does Santa's suit come from? Why does he slide down the chimney? Why does he live at the North Pole? The answers to all these questions and the origins of our favorite holiday traditions are revealed in this classic about Kris Kringle, the world's most famous gift-giver.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2010
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV SANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SANSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Summary: A collection of Indian fairy tales that have been passed on to their children from generation to generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1916
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 SCHScieszka, Jon
Summary: Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SciCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCISummary: A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOUSummary: The adventure explodes into action with the debut of Mewtwo. Determined to prove its superiority, Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu, and others into a Pokemon match like none before. Mewtwo vs. Mew. Super-clones vs. Pokemon. It's the ultimate showdown...with the very future of the world at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Ruths, Mitali Banerjee
Summary: Priya Chakraborty plans a birthday party for her first client, Layla Aunty, personalizing everything from the invitations to the menu in Aunty's favorite color, but as party-time finally arrives, Priya is nervous something will go wrong.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RUTSummary: When Emily Crany refuses to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, Ray Salwen, she's blacklisted and immediately fired from her job. But when she stumbles upon Salwen's nefarious plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the U.S., she enlists the help of an FBI agent to help her bring Salwen to justice ... before he brings an end to them!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUSummary: A family saga focusing on the lives of the Macahan family in the Old West. Their stories are played out against a realistic recreation of the American West in that lusty, hard-hitting period when laws were frequently broken and progress was charted by individual suffering and survival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOWSummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISCleary, Beverly.
Summary: A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1965
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Cleary 1965Van Allsburg, Chris.
Summary: The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANSummary: Over the years Tsar Nicholas cannot satisfy the needs of the people or prevent Russia's entry into World War I, and the Empress falls under the spell of the evil monk, Rasputin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NICMacaulay, David.
Summary: By crossing a road, a chicken sets off a series of wild events, in which the Anderson twins blow up their bathroom and the brave young Hooper lad is rolled up and delivered inside an Oriental rug.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MACSummary: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Spalding Gray performs a monologue that mostly recounts his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassador's aide in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SWISummary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017