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This is our Christmas [videorecording] / by Filippella, Christian,film director.; Moss, Ronn,actor.; O'Brien, Margaret,1937-actor.; O'Connell, Aaron,actor.; Russell, Brandon Tyler,actor.; Echo Bridge Home Entertainment,publisher.;
Aaron O'Connell, Ronn Moss, Margaret O'Brien, Brandon Tyler Russell.A spoiled Beverly Hills teenager reluctantly travels to local ski-town, Big Bear, for the holidays and to help save her aunt's failing bakery but in doing so, she learns a valuable and timely lesson about the importance of helping others.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Christmas films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aunts; Bakeries; Christmas; Nieces; Teenage girls;
For private home use only.
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Tokyo revengers. [graphic novel] / by Wakui, Ken,author,illustrator.; Harkins, Robert,letterer.; Project Ceres,translator.;
"The decisive Christmas battle between Toman and the Black Dragons is finally over. Against all odds, Takemichi untangled a web of family drama and averted a bloody murder. But there's still the problem of his relationship with Hina. To try and keep her safe from the violence that surrounds the world of delinquents, he broke up with her in no uncertain terms. Just how will Takemichi's relationship echo back to a changed future, along with the lives he saved?"--Back cover.Older teen (15+).
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Manga.; Gangs; Time travel;
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Breakers of the code / by Hunter, Erin.;
"Cast out of his coalition, Stride the cheetah embarks on a perilous mission for the Great Parent, accompanied by a honey badger burdened with a dark and mysterious past. Whisper the water buffalo has been searching desperately for her brother Echo, presumed dead after a terrible fall. And the hyena now known as Breathstealer finds herself courted by the Great Spirit at one moment and other times tempted by the Great Devourer...The balance of power in Bravelands rests on a knife's edge, and the Great Devourer waits hungrily in the shadows"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Animal fiction.; Cheetah; Honey badger; Water buffalo; Hyenas; Animals;
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Three Women Disappear : with a bonus novel: Come and Get Us / by Patterson, James.Come and get us.; Serafin, Shan,author.;
Three women disapper: When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other. Come and get us: Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husbad badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: "Be careful who you trust.".
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction.); Missing persons; Murder;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Rowling, J. K.;
Read by Jim Dale.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.Ages 7 to 14.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Fantasy fiction.; Potter, Harry (Fictitious character); Granger, Hermione (Fictitious character); Weasley, Ron (Fictitious character); Witches; Wizards; Magic; Schools; England; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
© 2021., Yoto Inc.
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The dictionary of lost words : a novel / by Williams, Pip,1969-author.;
"Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and mine to sit on his lap, like a queen on her throne, and help him ease each word out of its folded cradle. He'd tell me what pile to put it on and sometimes he'd pause, cover my hand with his, and guide my finger up and down and around the letters, sounding them into my ear. He'd say the word, and I would echo it, then he'd tell me what it meant"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Oxford English dictionary; Lexicographers; Women; Women; Encyclopedias and dictionaries;
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Ordinary notes / by Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores with immense care profound questions about loss, and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal--with present-day realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. Through the striking images and words in these pages, themes and tones echo: sometimes about life, art, language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, photography, and literature--but always attending, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights; Discrimination;
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The heartbeat library / by Imai Messina, Laura,author.; Rand, Lucy,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references.On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the pulses of people who are still alive or who have already passed away continue to echo. Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls meet: Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his hometown to fix up the house of his recently deceased mother, and eight-year-old Kenta, a child he finds wandering like a shadow around it. Day by day, the trust between Shuichi and Kenta grows, until they discover they share a bond that will tie them together for life. Their journey will lead them to Teshima and to the library of heartbeats.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Grief; Interpersonal relations; Libraries; Love;
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The royal librarian / by Wood, Daisy,author.;
A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations ... Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when she learns that Windsor is compromised, Sophie must sacrifice everything she knows to save the future queen of England ... Philadelphia, Present day: Digging into her great aunt's family tree, Lacey Turner comes across a mysterious book bearing the stamp of Windsor Castle's royal bindery. But how did it come to be in her family's possession? And so begins a journey that will take Lacey from battlefields to Buckingham palace in a quest to reunite the book with its rightful owner.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Windsor, House of; Windsor Castle; Windsor Castle. Royal Library; Families; Librarians; Secrecy; Women librarians; World War, 1939-1945;
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The lost apothecary / by Penner, Sarah,author.;
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary's in a stunning twist of fate, and not everyone will survive.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Recipes.; Murder; Murder; Pharmacists; Secrecy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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