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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. "Phoebe ... is a beautiful Southern belle engaged to handsome Spanish nobleman Don Andrea. When a former beau interrupts their wedding ceremony, he is accidentally killed by the groom-to-be, sending Andrea to Texas to avoid the authorities and to wait for his beloved. At the border, Andrea teams with wise-cracking Sam Hollis ... who is recruiting gunmen to help him, and his Indian co-hort to escort a shipment of guns through hostile Comanche...
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Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.......
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Did you hear the story about Max, the boy who kidnapped his grandfather from a nursing home? You didn't see it on the news? Well, let me tell you about it.
Max lives in a small town, much smaller than yours. His grandpa is losing his memory, but still remembers quite a bit. You can imagine how they hurried, Max and his grandpa, followed by old Miss Schneider, who insisted on coming along. Why were they in a hurry? Because everyone was after them....
6) Dirt Boy
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Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
[30] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
To avoid taking a bath, Fister Farnello runs away from home and is befriended by Dirt Man, a filthy giant who lives in the woods.
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In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "oddities," including a dwarf and a cat-faced girl, holding himself apart from the "monsters" and resolving to be on guard against further
...10) Being Toffee
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
11) The bridge home
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
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Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
13) First love
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
14) Bee frog
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Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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It seems that no one pays attention to little Bee Frog, even when she pretends to be a very fierce dragon, so she hops away from home, but soon finds herself wondering if a dragon ever gets lonely.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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463 pages ; 22 cm
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Vesper Montgomery learned the hard way that her power to summon your worst fear and turn it into a reality was addicting and dangerous. When she earns a spot in the Tournament of the Unraveling, where competitors battle it out for a chance to rewrite the past, Vesper finally has a shot to reverse the mistakes that have changed her forever. She turns to Sam Hardy, a former MMA fighter who's also carrying a tragedy he desperately wants to undo. The...
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The Veritas project volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
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311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Elijah and his sister Elisha go undercover to investigate a mysterious school that is sheltering runaway teenagers for a sinister purpose.
18) The Corinthian
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When a man comes across a beautiful young woman climbing out of a window in a bid to escape, he finds the ideal opportunity to realize his own escape in this sparkling Regency romance with a decidedly Shakespearean twist.
19) Palindromes
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Acclaimed writer/director Todd Solondz once again presents a story of moral complexity in his latest film about a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mom.
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