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Jabuti the tortoise: a trickster tale from the Amazon / by McDermott, Gerald;
All the birds enjoy the songlike flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture, who jealous he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
Subjects: Indians of South America; Tales; Turtles; Vultures;
© c2001., Harcourt,
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Trapped / by Brouwer, Sigmund,1959-;
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents.RL: 1.9.LSC
Subjects: Survival; Teenagers; Foster parents; Child abuse;
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The call of the wild [videorecording] / by Sanders, Chris(Christopher Michael),film director.; Bailey, Preston,2000-actor.; Brown, Wes,actor.; Ford, Harrison,1942-actor.; Gillan, Karen,1987-actor.; Horse, Michael,actor.; Kelly, Jean Louisa,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):London, Jack,1876-1916.Call of the wild.; Notary, Terry,actor.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.; Sy, Omar,1978-actor.; Whitford, Bradley,actor.; Woodell, Colin,1991-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,film distributor.;
Harrison Ford, Karen Gillan, Dan Stevens, Bradley Whitford, Jean Louisa Kelly, Wes Brown, Omar Sy, Terry Notary, Preston Bailey, Colin Woodell, Michael Horse.Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Dogs; Sled dogs; Dogsled mail; Human-animal relationships;
For private home use only.
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Old country / by Query, Matt,1989-author.; Query, Harrison,1991-author.;
"Looking to lead a more peaceful life, former Marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, move to rural Idaho and buy an idyllic, remote ranch. Their nearest neighbors, Dan and Lucy Steiner, live over a mile away. But Dan and Lucy warn Harry and Sasha of a malevolent spirit that lives in the valley. Every season, the spirit haunts residents of that part of the Teton Valley in different and diabolical ways. Harry and Sasha are convinced isolation has driven their neighbors mad. That is, until the first of the manifestations appears, challenging everything Harry and Sasha thought they knew about the world we live in. As each season passes, the spirit grows stronger, and each encounter with it becomes more dangerous. Harry and Sasha must figure out how to make peace with the spirit ... or be killed by it. Haunting and bone chilling, Old Country is a spellbinding debut in the horror genre"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Demonology; Married people; Ranches;
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Do you remember being born? / by Michaels, Sean,1982-author.;
"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Artistic collaboration; Artificial intelligence; Women poets;
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The upstarts : how Uber, Airbnb, and the killer companies of the New Silicon Valley are changing the world / by Stone, Brad,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Kalanick, Travis.; Chesky, Brian.; Airbnb (Firm); New business enterprises.; Technological innovations.; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Information technology; Information technology;
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Till death do us part / by Flynn, Laurie Elizabeth,author.;
"Ten years ago, June's beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon, his body never found. Now, a decade later, June is finally ready to move on. She owns a natural wine bar in Brooklyn and is engaged to a patient, supportive man named Kyle. She's excited to finally begin a new chapter in her life and start a family. But out of the blue, she sees him--Josh, her first husband. Is this just a hallucination from the guilt June carries about finally moving on, or is it possible that her husband never died in the first place? June tries to forget about this vision, chalking it up to grief and nerves, but soon enough, she stumbles across a website for a winery in Napa, and the owner in the photo is identical to her dead husband. With her upcoming wedding looming and a fiancé who's already worried she hasn't quite left her past behind, June secretly flies to Napa for answers. But she's not prepared for all the secrets she's about to unlock because everything she thought she knew about her first love is a lie"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Secrecy; Wineries; Women;
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Licorice pizza [videorecording] / by Anderson, Paul Thomas,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Cooper, Bradley,actor.; Haim, Alana,actor.; Hoffman, Cooper,actor.; Murphy, Sara(Film producer),film producer.; Penn, Sean,1960-actor.; Safdie, Benny,actor.; Somner, Adam,film producer.; Waits, Tom,1949-actor.; Bron Studios,presenter.; Focus Features,presenter.; Ghoulardi Film Company,production company.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1992- ),presenter.; Universal Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie.The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Coming-of-age films.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Love; Man-woman relationships;
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Stampede : gold fever and disaster in the Klondike / by Castner, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--
Subjects: Gold mines and mining; Gold mines and mining;
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Of mice and men / by Steinbeck, John,1902-1968,author.;
"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Psychological fiction.; People with mental disabilities; Male friendship; Ranch life; Cowboys; FICTION; FICTION; FICTION; Cowboys.; Friendship.; Men.;
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