Summary: A chambermaid with Paris flair, gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIASummary: Focuses on the life and work of Mother Teresa with words and pictures that even the youngest child will enjoy. Children will happily learn that Mother Teresa was a person whose strong faith and trust in God helped her make incredible changes in our world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MOTSummary: Starting in the mid-1950s, a group of talented young filmmakers presented a radically new vision of French cinema. Dubbed the "Young Turks" by Cahiers du Cinéma co-founder André Bazin, they overturned the studio-based industry of the day, creating films that were modern, political... and funny. The group included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and more. The short...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARSummary: A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PlSummary: The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wisecracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV POKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POKMartin, Linette.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MartinDecos, Lissette
Summary: "Ana Karina loves her job--though she isn't quite where she thought she'd be by now. As reality TV producer, she orchestrates extravagant marriage proposals that always (read: mostly) go as planned. If they don't, she's not afraid to cut and paste scenes to perfection afterward. Even if her arrogant film editor isn't a fan. But what does he know about romance anyway? If only Ana's love life was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DECAardema, Verna.
Summary: Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books For Young Readers 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.24 AARNorman, Lissette
Summary: "Yesenia introduces readers to her favorite food--plátanos--which go with everything, especially love, in this ode to the star of Dominican cuisine"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOREERA
Contents: Living -- Beast -- Christine -- I wanna dance -- Survived -- Watching you -- 10,000 voices -- Trust -- Wise man -- Reflection of youth.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EERVerey, Rosemary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712.609 VERKay, Verla.
Summary: Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAYKay, Verla.
Summary: Simple rhyming text presents the everyday life of a young girl, living on a Pennsylvania farm in the early eighteenth century, who is quickly outgrowing her dress.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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Summary: Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LAGMarion Rosette
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Song Hit Guild 1931
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMReeves, Josette
Summary: From camouflage and color-changing to playing dead and detachable body parts, this fascinating glimpse into the clever, creative, and crazy ways animals avoid being eaten sheds new light on the natural world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2022
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Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 OTELaVette, Bettye
Contents: I do not want what I haven't got -- Joy -- Down to zero -- High road -- On the surface -- Just say so -- Little sparrow -- How am I different -- Only time will tell me -- Sleep to dream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LaVetSambury, Liselle
Summary: While struggling with her new role as Matriarch, Voya has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future, and with a newfound sense of purpose, she vows to do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and prevent the destruction of them all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMVere, Ed
Summary: Max is a cute kitten who dreams of becoming a brave mouse-catcher. So he sets off in search of a mouse, and discovers that bravery perhaps is not so important after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VereCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VERSambury, Liselle
Summary: When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SAMMathiot, Ginette
Summary: With more than 1,400 recipes, Mathiot guides the reader through all the classic recipes and techniques of French cooking with a clear and authoritative voice. The recipes have been fully updated by Clothilde Dusoulie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 MATWalters, Minette.
Summary: When Dr. Sophie Morrison answers a call for help at the housing project known as Acid Row, she is unaware that she's entering the home of a known pedophile and a minefield of hatred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002