Wilson, Kevin
Summary: Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. but now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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Summary: Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin stepkids are moving in, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she's left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider<U+2014>a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2009
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILSummary: Adult siblings Baxter and Annie, scarred from an unconventional upbringing, return to their family home. When their parents, performance artists famous for elaborate public hoaxes, go missing under troubling circumstances, Baxter and Annie investigate. Unsure whether it's foul play or just another elaborate ruse, nothing can prepare them for what they discover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAMSummary: In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, this film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. A heartrending story about the universal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAVSummary: " ... Dr. Dolittle plays Cupid to a bumbling circus bear to help a group of forest creatures save their habitat. With the aid of his mangy, madcap animal friends, Dolittle must teach this overgrown teddy the ways of true romance in time to save his species and his home!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DSummary: When her unconventional family relocates to a quiet country town, 15-year-old Tamara discovers new friends, new romance, and a chance at a normal life. But her mother's sudden illness forces young Tamara to suddenly grow up to keep everyone together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOMSummary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEESummary: Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. Assigned to an abandoned fort with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor, he overcomes the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become a friend of the tribe. But his knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN DANEllis, Warren.
Summary: "Six missions. Six chances to save the world. No time to lose. No margin for error. And no one will ever know-- unless they lose."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SECSummary: A U.S. Army soldier is allowed to pick his post; he decides to see the West before it is settled. Based on Michael Blake's novel. On AFI's 100 Movies list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dances 2004Summary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BECWilson, Karma.
Summary: The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE ANISummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: Two country handymen and a seismology student discover a desolate town infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TREShenandoah, Joanne.
Contents: Giving thanks (4:26) -- Circle (5:26) -- Prepare yourself (6:23) -- Daughter of water (7:12) -- 100 winters (4:30) -- Tell me your dreams (5:15) -- Thunder beings (6:38) -- Earth pulse (3:54) -- Her dance (3:29) -- Help us be peaceful (6:04) -- Everyone stand up (5:36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Wave Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SHESummary: When Doreen Green, also known as Squirrel Girl, volunteers to teach a high school computer programming class, she discovers that one of her students is Kamala Khan, who moonlights as the superhero Ms. Marvel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MARSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006