Gantos, Jack.
Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GANDead Light
Contents: Blooms -- Slow slowly -- The ballad of a small player -- Falling in -- Sleeper -- In red and red -- Trills -- Broods and waits -- Little blue -- Pale fire -- Outpour
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEAViets, Elaine
Summary: Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can finally marry the man she loves. But she still has to pay the bills, even if it means working at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for--literally. Secondhand clothes. First-degree murder. At Snapdragon, the high-end designer consignment shop, Helen is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian/New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEViets, Elaine
Summary: Working in a country club complaint department to deal with the griping of the rich and spoiled, Helen Hawthorne's ex-husband arrives back in her life aboard the yacht of his new lady, Marcella, known as the Black Widow for her string of dead spouses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEViets, Elaine
Summary: "From the national bestselling author of Checked Out, PI Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale's famous Bonnet House Museum to catch an artful killer.... STILL LIFE The art world is a happening place--but a brush with death shouldn't be in the picture. Unfortunately, that's just what happens to Helen Hawthorne and her friend Margery. While touring gorgeous Bonnet House, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIESummary: Set in a near-future where the economy has crumbled and violent gangs play havoc in the streets, the powers-that-be have decided to lure the delinquent youth into drive-in cinemas and keep them there. No longer just a place to watch trashy movies and make out, these outdoor picture shows have become concentration camps for the unruly and unwanted. Two people have mistakenly been sent there, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR DEAHolston, Noel
Summary: From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLSTON, NOEL HOLFong-Torres, Ben.
Summary: Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration. The Grateful Dead Scrapbook collects rare removable memorabilia and evocative images culled from the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including never-before-published photos, flyers, fan letters, and other ephemera. To accompany the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 FONSummary: What starts as a missions trip for Eugene and Katrina ends up being a hair-raising jungle adventure tracking a dad presumed dead--but very much alive!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Dead Man's Bones (Musical group)
Contents: Intro -- Dead hearts -- In the room where you sleep -- Buried in water -- My body's a zombie for you -- Pa pa power -- Young & tragic -- Paper ships -- Lose your soul -- Werewolf heart -- Dead man's bones -- Flowers grow out of my grave.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti- 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEARoss, John
Contents: Introduction: Welcome to El Monstruo -- Birth of a monstruo -- City of flowers & smoking hearts -- City of palaces & ghosts -- City of betrayed hopes -- City of order & progress -- City of the cannibal revolution -- City of artists & assassins -- City & country -- The city goes to war; city of miracles & hype -- Uruchurtu's city -- City of dread & redemption -- City of denial & shame -- City in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972 ROSGrateful Dead (Musical group)
Summary: Seventeen of the greatest songs ever performed by the Grateful Dead. Our one-of-a-kind album-matching folio includes multiple pages of color photos featuring the Grateful Dead in performance and a few candid shots spanning more than two decades.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.54 GRABreen, Benjamin
Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part four of the series China: Through Mao's Eyes details the watershed Nixon-Mao diplomacy, Mao's death and its aftermath, and the legacy of his rule and philosophy. Scenes showing an aged and infirm Mao meeting with foreign emissaries and CPC assemblies reveal his determination to shape policy and preserve his imposing image as long as possible. Today's citizens who look back nostalgically on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Contents: Truckin' (5:05) -- Touch Of Grey (5:47) -- Sugar Magnolia (3:17) -- Casey Jones (4:25) -- Uncle John's Band (4:42) -- Friend Of The Devil (Remastered Version) (3:21) -- Franklin's Tower (4:31) -- Estimated Prophet (5:36) -- Eyes Of The World (5:16) -- Box Of Rain (5:17) -- U.S. Blues (4:37) -- The Golden Road [To Unlimited Devotion] (2:10) -- One More Saturday Night [Live at the Strand Lyceum,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grateful Dead/Rhino 1969
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Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Contents: Truckin'--Touch of grey--Sugar magnolia--Casey Jones--Uncle John's band--Friend of the devil--Franklin's tower--Estimated prophet--Eyes of the world--Box of rain--U.S. blues--The golden road (to unlimited devotion)--One more saturday night (live, 1972)--Fire on the mountain--The music never stopped--Hell in a bucket--Ripple
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRAU-Roy
Contents: Runaway girl -- Chalice in the palace -- I can't love another -- Dreadlocks dread -- The great Psalms -- Natty don't fear -- African message -- Silver bird -- Listen to the teacher -- Trench town rock.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE U-ROSummary: The coronation of Juan Carlos I marked the third restoration of Spanish Bourbon rule. This program tracks the mixed fortunes of post-Franco Spain as it transitioned into a parliamentary monarchy and moved forward into the 21st century. News footage of policymakers and events addresses free elections, economic restructuring, membership in the E.U., educational reforms, and social security as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: Holiday in Cambodia (Pigface vs Beat Master Crash) -- California uber alles (Sheep on Drugs) -- Nazi punks fuck off (Meg Lee Chin) -- Too drunk to fuck (Moscow Machine Gun) -- Kill the poor (Dr. Speedlove dub)(Attrition) -- Short songs (Resident Phase Shifter) -- At my job (time and a half mix) (TRS-80) -- Drug me (Bagman) -- Police helicopter (The Truth) -- Dead end (Phylr) -- Chemical warfare...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Invisible Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DRESummary: The coronation of Juan Carlos I marked the third restoration of Spanish Bourbon rule. This program tracks the mixed fortunes of post-Franco Spain as it transitioned into a parliamentary monarchy and moved forward into the 21st century. News footage of policymakers and events addresses free elections, economic restructuring, membership in the E.U., educational reforms, and social security as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Contents: One more day -- Gonna cry -- Thinking about you -- Whirlpool -- I can't make him look at me --tI made my choice -- Love has laid his hands on me -- Stupid cupid -- Another heart -- I heard somebody say -- (I'm watching) every little move you make -- One more time, encore une fois -- Alley oop -- U.S.A. -- Baby it's you -- You please me so -- Run for the sun -- It's not a game --tHe understands...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VARKross, Ethan
Summary: "An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live healthier, more satisfying, and productive lives. Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you're likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 KROGrateful Dead (Musical group)
Contents: Touch of grey -- Hell in a bucket -- When push comes to shove -- West L.A. fadeaway -- Tons of steel -- Throwing stones -- Black muddy river.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 1987
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Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024