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Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery...and miracles.
New York, 1941: Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's school on East 28th Street when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes who seems to know him better than he knows himself. A magical afternoon at...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
x, 276 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While other kids were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco was just trying to figure out how to get from homeroom to study hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls. This powerful, unforgettable memoir chronicles how one child was shunned--and even physically abused--by her classmates from elementary school through high school. It is an unflinching look at what it means to be the outcast,...
Author
Series
Junior monster scouts volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Vamprya, Franky, and Wolfy fix the mess Igor Jr. caused at Dr. Frankenstein's lab while Baron Von Grump plots to sabotage The Village's 150th anniversary celebration by shutting off the power.
6) Himizu
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
Two teenagers living in post-tsunami Japan try to survive the storm's aftermath and their indifferent parents by inflicting violence on evil wrongdoers.
Author
Series
McCray Family novels volume 1
Description
Discovering that a local shelter is looking for temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a special canine named Christmas, who teaches an entire community a lesson in the transforming power of love and goodwill.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
9) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Jimmy, an angry British youth trying to find himself, and his like-minded rowdy "Mod" friends invade a seaside resort town and become involved in violent street fighting.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages cm
Description
"From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, GLORY puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about...
11) Boy meets girl
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three twenty year-olds living in Kentucky, Robby and his best friend since childhood, Ricky, a gorgeous transgender girl, have never dated. Lamenting the lack of eligible bachelors, Ricky considers dating a girl. In walks Francesca, a beautiful young debutante waiting for her Marine fiance to return from the war. Ricky and Francesca strike up a friendship, and maybe a little more, which forces Robby to face his true feelings for Ricky.
12) Up
Formats
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
13) Moonlight
Formats
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
14) Pokémon: Eevee
Series
Publisher
Viz Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 66 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ash and his friend Pikachu explore the world of the Pokémon. Ash's goal is to become the greatest pokemon master of all. He competes in the Indigo, Orange, Johto and Hoenn gyms and championships. He travels with his friends, Brock and Misty with her Togepi. He meets other characters who help him, like Tracey and May. They are constantly being pursued by Team Rocket members Jesse, James and Meowth who will stop at nothing to get Pikachu. These episodes...
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
109 p. ;
Description
"A chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself. What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else? To be from one family instead of another? What doesit mean to be human? Collected by Lori Carlson-Hijuelos, A Path to the World showcases essays by a vast variety of luminaries--from Gary Soto to Nawal Nasrallah to Ying Ying Yu, from chefs to artists...
18) Girl in a band
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence and as one of the first women of rock and roll.
19) Little Shaq
Author
Series
Little Shaq volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
73 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Seven-year-old Shaquille O'Neal, a talented basketball and video game player, learns to share the spotlight with his cousin Barry when the youngsters work together to earn money by watering plants.
20) Bad intentions
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
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