Summary: While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa discovers that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman. Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREKupersmith, Violet
Summary: "In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUPSummary: Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AdaptationRemmes, Brenda Bevan.
Summary: When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family, she knows that raising children in compliance with Quaker value will be challenging. Twenty-five years later, she still feels like she's falling short of expectations. Fortunately, her faith and her friends in the small, rural North Carolina town of Cedar Branch keep her strong. After her best...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC REMCotton Valent
Summary: "CREEP UP, CREEP OUT, CREEP...OVER?! Flora has vanquished her enemies and settled into life in a haunted mansion with the interdimensional Creepy Cat--but one day Creepy vanishes! Can Flora depend on Police Officer Oscar to find Creepy, or will the case of Oscar's own missing supernatural pets get in the way? Gloom is assured, and happiness not at all guaranteed in this final volume of Creepy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CRECotton Valent
Summary: "Flora has settled into her haunted mansion with the increasingly bizarre and mischievous Creepy Cat! It's a nice life, if she can keep it, but what will Flora do when sneaky assassins come for her? Will she end up as one more ghost in her own house, or will Creepy Cat out-prowl and out-swat those bad boys? The scary-cute adventure continues!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CREFimmel, Travis
Summary: With his life full of uncertainty, fifteen-year-old Charley finds comfort working with horses at the local racetrack, becoming attached to a losing racehorse named Lean On Pete.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEACotton Valent
Summary: "Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by a strange creature--Creepy Cat! Thus begins her strange and sometimes dangerous life with a feline roommate. This Gothic comedy brings the chuckles...and the chills!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CREHermes, Patricia.
Summary: Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Hermes 2009Hammes, Brady
Summary: "After an injury cripples her dance career in the US, Sam is scouted by a wealthy Russian investor seeking ballerinas for his Versailles-esque campus in rural Russia. Not only is she geographically cut-off from the rest of the world, Sam isolates herself from friends and family as her heroin addiction takes control. Similarly alone, Jonah, her brother, is monitoring elephants in the thick of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMPeto, Violet
Summary: Invites young readers to learn new words in English and Spanish for common items and animals found in the places that they visit, including a zoo, a library, a train station, a farm, and a toy store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Hermes, Margaret
Summary: After discovering that her husband has been cheating on her with their mutual friends, a Midwestern librarian distracts herself with a 1981 trip through Europe where she meets a variety of fascinating men and finds love again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHermes, Patricia
Summary: Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Hermes 2012Gowar, Imogen Hermes
Summary: "... One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah's trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah's ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid. Jonah is stunned--the object the captain presents him is brown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gowar 2018Lund, Emme
Summary: Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums would call him a Terror. From the moment Gail emerged between Owen's ribs, his mother knew that she had to hide him away from the world. After a decade spent in hiding, Owen takes a brazen trip outdoors in the middle of a forest fire, and his life is upended forever. Suddenly, Owen is forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Boks 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNValent, Jennifer Erin.
Summary: When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents in a tragic fire, Jessilyn's father vows to care for her as one of his own, despite the fact that Gemma is black and prejudice is prevalent in their southern Virginia town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VALSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the timid researcher's work! Soon, in the struggle between neutral observation and the need for human interaction, the kitchen becomes a battleground!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KITPatterson, James
Summary: Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PATSummary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BACSummary: The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SECVincent, Gabrielle.
Summary: When Celestine momentarily loses Ernest at the museum, she fears that he prefers the paintings to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC VINVincent, Norah.
Summary: Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. He begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012