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Blue skies : a novel / by Boyle, T. Coraghessan,author.;
"From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change"--
Subjects: Ecofiction.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Climatic changes; Families; Human-animal relationships; Internet personalities; Pythons as pets; Social media and society; Survival;

Barbershop. by Story, Tim,film director.; Anderson, Anthony,actor.; the, Cedric,actor.; Eve,actor.; Cube, Ice,actor.; David, Keith,actor.; Patrick, Sean,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Ice Cube, Keith David, Sean Patrick ThomasOriginally produced by MGM in 2002.Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve and Cedric the Entertainers star in this bust-a-gut, hit comedy about a Chicago barbershop where razor-sharp comedy never goes out of style! Calvin (Ice Cube) is a would-be entrepreneur with big plans…and running his family's barbershop isn't one of them. But, when he impulsively sells the shop to a shady loan shark, he soon realizes just how important the neighborhood parlor is to him…and just how far he'll go to get it back!Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;

Peppa Pig and the apple stand. by Candlewick Entertainment.;
In a gentle introduction to early subtraction, Peppa and her friends sell the apples from the apple orchard and meet some friendly neighbors along the way.
Subjects: Picture books.; Animal fiction.; Peppa Pig (Fictitious character); Swine; Counting; Apples; Neighbors; Animals;

Support the girls [videorecording] / by Bujalski, Andrew,film director,screenwriter.; Gelula, Dylan,1994-actor.; Hall, Regina,actor.; McHayle, Shayna,actor.; Richardson, Haley Lu,actor.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Shayna McHayle, Lea Delaria, James Legros, Brooklyn Decker, Zoe Graham, Ann McCaskey, Elizabeth Trieu, Krista Hayes.Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for language including sexual references, and brief nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Sexual harassment; Female friendship; Waitresses;
For private home use only.

Threadneedle / by Thomas, Cari,author.;
Anna's Aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences. Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever. Until she meets Effie and Attis. They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells. But as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her Aunt was right all along. Is her magic a gift ... or a curse?
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Aunts; Family secrets; Libraries; Magic;

I am Cleopatra / by Vitale, Brooke.; Meltzer, Brad.Ordinary people change the world.;
Xavier wants to stay up all night to see a super moon, but he doesn t know how to ask his parents. Luckily, the Secret Museum sends him to meet Cleopatra and she teaches him how to ask for things the right way.Guided reading level: K.LSC
Subjects: Radio and television novels.; Riddle, Xavier (Fictitious character); Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.; Assertiveness (Psychology); Boys; Museums;

Working mummies / by Horton, Joan.; Kozjan, Drazen.;
Illustrations and rhyming text introduce the many careers and professions of mummies, such as real estate agents selling haunted houses and dentists filing vampires' fangs.
Subjects: Monsters; Mothers; Mummies; Occupations; Stories in rhyme.;
© c2012., Farrar Straus Giroux,

The Christmas Classic. by Dax Taylor, Shane,film director.; Smart, Amy,actor.; Nichols, Austin,actor.; Akerman, Malin,actor.; Hansen, Ryan,actor.; Quiver Distribution (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Amy Smart, Austin Nichols, Malin Akerman, Ryan HansenOriginally produced by Quiver Distribution in 2023.Elizabeth, a big city girl, returns to her small hometown to convince Randy, an old flame, to sell his local ski resort to her fiancé’s large corporation.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Romance.; Christmas films.; Romantic comedy films.;

The cottage at Firefly Lake / by Gilroy, Jen.;
When Charlotte Gibbs returns to Firefly Lake to sell her mother's cottage, she is reminded of what she has been missing in her life, especially Sean Carmichael.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; First loves; Cottages;

Klara and the sun / by Ishiguro, Kazuo,1954-author.;
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Artificial intelligence; Friendship; Love; Paid companions (Household employees); Robots;

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