Mather, Matthew
Summary: Something big is coming ... big enough to destroy the entire solar system ... and it's heading straight for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter and wife, who are vacationing in Italy: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Swallow, James
Summary: Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Dane the only survivor--and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6-- he's forced into the front line. Matters spiral out of control when the evidence points toward Dane as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAUrasawa, Naoki
Summary: "Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TWEFollett, Ken.
Summary: Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits....An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House.... A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Summary: Storm of the century: When a murder shakes the island of Little Tall, the local constable must stop the evil that is growing as quickly as the snowstorm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StBarnes, John
Summary: A killer is infected with a virus causing him to be sick every 15 years, then recovering with no memory and 10 years younger. This way the killer survives the entire 21st Century, performing tasks for his masters, some of which he is just as happy not remembering.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARHiggins, Peter.
Summary: Sent to the capital, Mirgorod, to capture a terrorist, Inspector Vissarion Lom finds the city a corrupt world of secret police, revolutionaries, cabarets, and lost artists and slowly comes to the realization of exactly why he was chosen for this job.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGKeane, Michael
Summary: In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," the troops of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, discover that Santa is in trouble on Christmas Eve and quickly set about helping him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KEAHill, Joe.
Summary: A compilation of short fiction includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILKeesey, Anna
Summary: "A debut novel about the range wars in the American West at the turn of the century"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEESummary: Set primarily in two hospitals, the film tells two similar stories from two different periods, mirroring their respective eras' mores. At a small-town hospital, Toa is courting charming Dr. Tei. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul tells the story of his parents who were both doctors, and his memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SYNBening, Annette
Summary: Follows the lives of three women living in Southern California during the late 1970s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWESummary: Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance. When Ocho, a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely beautiful strangers in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ENDThayer, James Stewart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THAPriest, Cherie.
Summary: Rector "Wreck 'em" Sherman, a drug dealer haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know, sneaks over the wall into the wasteland of Seattle where he makes a shocking discovery that changes everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: When Harry's beloved Aunt Tally approaches her 100th birthday, her alma mater schedules a birthday celebration that doubles as a fundraiser. But then a member of the alumnae association disappears. Her car is on campus, yet she's nowhere to be seen--and Tucker has sniffed out traces of human blood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M BROAndersen, Kurt
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDAmis, Kingsley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMISummary: The Stoker Award-winning author of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead and an all-new lineup of authors from every corner of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection -- and with zombies. The stellar stories in this volume include a tale set in the world of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, the first...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TWEMurdoch, Iris.
Summary: A ten guinea wager between a woman and her former lover threatens to disrupt the lives of all those close to them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MurdoFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FollettBaccalario, Pierdomenico.
Summary: Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BACDurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn't stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family's isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon will make when they have their own land. An unexpected inheritance opens a door for the newlyweds--Leon's uncle has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2016Lewis, Sinclair
Summary: Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1996