Summary: A sly, merciless thriller where a best-selling author and therapist wants to help a client by making restitution for the money he owes to a gambler. After she meets the attractive cardsharp, her own compulsions take hold as he lures her into his world of high-stakes deception. Starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna, this film is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY HOUSummary: A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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Summary: Follows the author on his quest to gamble at least a thousand dollars a day for thirty days using every method he could find on a trip across America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793 ROEBreathe Owl Breathe (Musical group)
Contents: Own stunts -- Dogwalkers of the new age -- Parrots in the tropical trees -- Board games -- Dragon -- House of gold -- Icy cave dancers -- Lake light -- Sidehill gouger -- Across the loch -- Swimming -- Lion's jaw.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hometapes 2010
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BRESummary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONESilverberg, Robert.
Summary: Grand Master Silverberg (Roma Eterna) is one of science fiction's finest short story writers, and this superb volume shows him at his best. In the masterful novella Born with the Dead, Jorge Klein cannot accept that his recently resurrected wife no longer loves him, preferring the company of other deads. Schwartz Between the Galaxies introduces a near-future anthropologist who lectures on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILJones, J. Nicole
Summary: "J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family, a family that grew rich building the hotels and seafood restaurants that draw tourists to Myrtle Beach. But at home, she is surrounded by violence and capriciousness: a grandfather who beats his wife, a barman father who dreams of being a country music star. At one time, Jones's parents can barely afford groceries; at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, J. NICOLE JONLee, Sung-Yoon
Summary: Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murderous regime's chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker, she is the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Contents: 1. The prologue -- 2. 1922: The season that laid the cornerstone -- 3. The building and naming of Yost Field House -- 4. 1923: The season that built the foundation -- 5. The founding of the Big Ten Commissioner -- 6. 1924: The decisive season, "the dedication season" -- 7. The crucial spring of 1925 -- 8. 1925: "The greatest football team I ever saw" -- 9. The Day Committee report -- 10. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Huron River Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 SODHomer
Summary: The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legend HomerCollins, Suzanne
Summary: "It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COLWax Tailor.
Contents: Once upon a past -- Way we lived (feat Sharon Jones) -- Games you play -- Tune -- Man with no soul (feat Charlotte Savary) -- Radio broadcast -- Positively inclined (feat Marina Quaisse & A.S.M.) -- Sometimes -- House of wax (feat the Others) -- Beyond words -- To dry up (feat Charlotte Savary) -- We be (feat Ursula Rucker) -- That case -- There is danger -- Alien in my belly (feat Charlotte...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decon Media 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC WAXCollins, Suzanne
Summary: It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COLEveritt, Anthony
Summary: "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER THE GREAT EVEContents: Motorbikin' (Chris Spedding) -- Tobacco road (Nashville Teens) -- The house of the rising sun (The Animals) -- Hi-ho silver lining (Jeff Beck) -- Journey (Duncan Browne) -- Brother Louie (Hot Chocolate) -- Is it true (Brenda Lee) -- Sunshine superman (single version) (Donovan) -- Dance with the devil (Cozy Powell) -- No milk today (Herman's Hermits) -- Walking (C.C.S.) -- Little games (The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POPContents: Alfie -- Baby elephant walk -- By the time I get to Phoenix -- Cherish -- (They long to be) close to you -- Didn't we -- Do you know the way to San Jose -- Everything is beautiful -- Games people play -- Green green grass of home -- Guantanamera -- Hello, Dolly! -- Honey -- The house of the rising sun - I left my heart in San Francisco -- If he walked into my life -- I'll never fall in love...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Charles H. Hansen Music Corp. 1971
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 WOROsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998