Christie, Agatha
Summary: Ten houseguests are trapped on an island and realize that they are the prey of a diabolical killer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Inc. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHRSummary: It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ten people, strangers to each other, are invited to a lavish estate on an island. The tension mounts as, one by one, they are murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANDLeser, David
Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LESSummary: Dress Like a Woman turns that question on its head by sharing a myriad of interpretations across history. The book includes more than 240 incredible photographs that illustrate how women’s roles have changed over the last century. The women pictured in this book inhabit a fascinating intersection of gender, fashion, politics, culture, class, nationality, and race. You’ll see some familiar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 DREMcDonough, Yona Zeldis
Summary: "More than 2,000 years ago, travelers wrote about the incredible sights they saw while on their journeys. They told tales of hanging gardens that were built for a Babylonian queen, and a colossal statue that guided ships through the harbor of Rhodes in Greece. These writers compiled a list of the very best of these sights that are now known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Author Yona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 709.01 MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Ancient What McDonoughKruger, C. Baxter.
Summary: Young's novel, The Shack, has been embraced by Christians worldwide. Kruger explores this story of a man lifted from the depths of despair through his life-altering encounter with God, and guides readers into a deeper understanding of the core message of the novel: God is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2012
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Summary: When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNNoyes, Martha.
Summary: "Then There Were None, by award-winning Honolulu writer and artist Martha H. Noyes, is a personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population. Drawing from a variety of sources, Noyes chronicles the effects, from the arrival of Capt. Cook to the present, of disease, written language, the missionaries, landownership, the overthrow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bess Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 NOYBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUZChristie, Agatha
Summary: Ten houseguests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine ... When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: The world's best-selling mystery with over 100 million copies sold! Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Strauss, Gwen
Summary: "The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 STRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 STRBusch, Akiko.
Contents: Introduction : The Hudson River, August 29, 2001 -- The Delaware River, September 8, 2002 -- The Connecticut River, August 31, 2003 -- The Susquehanna River, July 21, 2004 -- The Hudson River, September 5, 2004 -- The Monongahela and Cheat Rivers, May 21, 2005 -- The Mississippi River, July 8, 2005 -- The Ohio River, July 10, 2005 -- The Current River, July 12, 2005 -- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 BUSLobel, Anita.
Summary: Fearing at first that her family is going on vacation without her, Nini the cat ends up traveling with her owners to their new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOBSmil, Vaclav
Summary: "An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMIDaheim, Mary
Summary: Shocked by the arrival of a guest who claims to be her son, Judith McMonigle Flynn accepts the young man's help investigating a murder on the premises only to discover that he has designs on the inn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DAHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS DAHStolzenburg, William.
Summary: A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.16 STOGraff, Garrett M.
Summary: This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 999 GRAAtwood, Kathryn J.
Summary: Readers are introduced to courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the conflict in Vietnam. These women served in dangerous roles as medics, journalists, resisters, and revolutionaries. Through their varied experiences and perspectives, young readers gain insight into the many facets of this tragic and complex conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 ATWFuller, Jesse.
Contents: Move on down the line -- Stealing -- Ninety nine years and one dark day -- Animal fair -- Sleeping in the midnight cold -- Stackolee -- John Henry -- Railroad worksong -- Lining up the track -- Hanging 'round a skin game -- Railroad blues -- San Francisco Bay blues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fledg'ling 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES FULHowe, Neil
Summary: Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they'd uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras--or "turnings"--that always arrive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4973 HOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4973 HOWStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018