Anderson, Kristen Jane.
Summary: This is a remarkable story of life beyond despair and hope that triumphs over tragedy. Kristen Anderson thought she had the picture perfect life until strokes of gray dimmed her outlook: three friends and her grandmother died within two years. Still reeling from these losses, she was raped by a friend she thought she could trust. She soon spiraled into a seemingly bottomless depression. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, KRISTEN JANE ANDProehl, Bob
Summary: In this debut novel we follow actress Valerie Torrey - who took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles, leaving her husband after a spectacular tragedy blew their small family apart. Six years later, Val must reunite 9-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROByatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
Summary: When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BYADonati, Sara.
Summary: Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794. Soon word reaches them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel sets out, determined to see his father freed. Instead, Nathaniel is imprisoned and finds himself in danger of being hanged as a spy. Elizabeth soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
Summary: When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYAComfort, Ray.
Contents: Swim like a fish : copying shark scales -- Body armor of the future : strength of fish scales -- Stronger than Kevlar : spider web strong -- Pinecone fashion coming soon to a mall near you? -- Cleaning like a lotus leaf -- Robosquids and jet propulsion -- Mantis shrimp eye improves next wave of entertainment technology -- Butterflies prevent counterfeit currency? -- Human eye : a better camera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Master Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Sci Eng ComfortCast, P. C.
Summary: Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan, but she has cast her duties aside until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever. When a deadly attack tears her world apart, Mari reveals the strength of her powers and the forbidden secret of her dual nature as she embarks on a mission to save her people. It is not until Nik, the son of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Cast 2016Copies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASChakraborty, S. A.
Summary: "The sequel to S. A. Chakraborty's brilliantly imagined fantasy The City of Brass, which #1 New York Times bestelling author Sabaa Tahir called "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind", in which a young con artist drawn into the kingdom of the djinn must navigate her way through their dangerous world of magic, court politics, and ever-shifting alliances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHABarker, J. D. (Jonathan Dylan)
Summary: Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling- She's found wearing the clothes of another girl,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARLynch, Jack (John T.)
Summary: "Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 LYNSummary: This program studies European exploration and conquest, beginning in the late Middle Ages and leading up to the emergence of the major colonial powers. Byzantium's fall in 1453 sets the narrative stage for Henry the Navigator's massive initiative to find new trade routes into Asia. Henry's nautical school at Sagres is described in detail, along with the voyages of Columbus, Gil Eannes, Vasco da...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Evans, Chris (Chris R.)
Summary: "Apocalypse Now meets The Lord of the Rings in a bold new fantasy from the acclaimed author of the Iron Elves trilogy, filled with "heroic action that keeps fans coming back" (Publishers Weekly). Channeling the turbulent period of the Vietnam War and its ruthless pitting of ideologies, cultures, generations, and races against each other, military historian and acclaimed fantasy writer Chris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAJohnson, Micaiah
Summary: "A multiverse-hopping outsider discovers a secret that threatens her home world and her fragile place in it-a stunning sci-fi debut that's both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. CARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS. The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHDonnelly, Jennifer
Summary: Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONAnderson, M. T.
Summary: For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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Schwantes, Carlos A.
Summary: "The West the Railroads Made" recounts the stories of visionaries such as Henry Harmon Spalding, Samuel Parker, and Asa Whitney, who imagined the railroad as a new Northwest Passage, an iron road through the West to the Orient. As the idea of a Pacific Railroad grew in the 1840s and 1850s, many Americans imagined the West as a fertile garden or a treasure chest of priceless minerals. Railroads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library 2008
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Summary: In desperate need of a new image, seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong attends Chien Tan, the Taipei summer program, but instead enters an extravagant world where there's more awaiting her than she ever could've imagined--like a romantic entanglement with a mysterious suitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WENGaarder, Jostein
Summary: "One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx and Freud) with a mysterious mentor. But Sophie is also receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAASummary: Pocahontas travels to England as an ambassador of peace, where she must convince the King of England that her people are truly civilized in order to stop an armada moving against them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POCFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOEKing, Willie Eael.
Contents: Living in a new world -- Crawlin' blues -- The stomper -- America -- You so evil -- All tied up -- You got to have love -- Ain't gonna work -- Is it my imagination -- Terrorized -- The blues life (monologue)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rooster Blues Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES KINConley, Garrard
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England. Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CONT Rice A Menken
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Wonderland Music 1992
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFinn, A. J.
Summary: "It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018