Baxter, Charles
Summary: "From National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAXBoxer, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXBoxer, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quiet Vision 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICWilson, Robert Charles
Summary: As the United States struggles back to prosperity in the 22nd Century, the dashing Captain Commongold faces treachery and intrigue while being at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion for his beliefs in the doctrines of the Secular Ancients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Wilson 2009Wheelan, Charles J.
Summary: America is in trouble--at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis--and control...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHEFollett, Ken.
Summary: East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLSummary: Based on Philip Roth's acclaimed novel, this limited series brilliantly imagines an alternate American history during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the six-part limited series charts the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PLOShaw, L. C.
Summary: Senator Malcolm Philips appears at the door of investigative journalist Jack Logan's New York apartment, disheveled, sure he's about to be murdered, and insistent that Jack watch over his wife, Taylor. The only catch is that Taylor happens to be the only woman Jack has ever truly loved. Days later, Phillips is found dead, the apparent victim of an allergy attack. And the only one who may be...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019