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Canadian poetry 21st century Dogs Juvenile fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Human-animal relationships Juvenile fiction Humorous stories Indians of North America Canada Poetry Ojibwa Indians Canada Poetry Schools Juvenile fiction Serial murders Fiction Short stories, Canadian 21st centuryRoyston, Angela.
Summary: Astronauts from the United States help Russian astronauts make repairs on the space station Mir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1900
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 Royston 2000Summary: The body is like a self-supporting hospital, able to deal on its own with wounds, bacterial invasions, fractures, and obstructions to its various passages. This program follows the sequence of events over seconds and weeks when skin or bone is damaged and shows the defensive reactions of blood clotting, fever, and mending of bone fracture.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Steel, Danielle.
Summary: A car accident involving two teenage girls leads to a romance between the mother of one and the father of the other. Page Clark, the mother, is unhappily married, while Trygve Thorensen, the father, is divorced. The hospital vigil brings them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STETsurumi, Andrea
Summary: When a clumsy armadillo named Lola knocks over a glass pitcher, she sets off a silly chain of events, encountering chaos wherever she goes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TSUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TSUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE TSUSummary: In this compelling French mystery, Gabriel Cauvy contends with the sudden death of his wife, Rebecca, in a suspicious car wreck. When the police blame the crash on Rebecca for drunk driving, Gabriel sets out to clear her name, but his search for the truth is more dangerous than he could have imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ACCSinger, Jessie
Summary: In this moving investigation of common tragedies, a journalist tracks accidental death in America from turn of the century to today, proving that what we call accidents are hardly random, rather who lives and dies by accident in America is defined by money and power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1 SINBates, Laura
Summary: When a small plane crash ends with a group of seven teens washed up on a deserted island, their first thought is survival. With supplies dwindling and the fear of being stranded forever becoming more of a reality, they quickly discover that being the most popular kid in high school doesn't help when you're fighting to stay alive. And when strange and terrifying accidents start to occur all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BATBarelli, Natalie
Summary: Katherine Nichols knew she'd had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. "There's no traffic anyway," Eve had pointed out. And they'd had such a great night out, the two of them. Even now, driving them home and knowing she shouldn't, seemed almost mischievous. All part of the fun. Not anymore. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine's life and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BarelliPavone, Chris.
Summary: Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attentions of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAVBarclay, Linwood.
Summary: Glen Garber's wife Sheila is killed in a car accident and the police claim she was responsible. But Glen knows this is impossible. As he investigates he begins to uncover layers of lawlessness and secrets in his suburb. He is forced into a vortex of illegal activity, is pursued by mysterious killers and confronted by threats from his neighbors. Can he avenge his wife and protect his child?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBrown, Stacia.
Summary: Rachel Lockyer is under investigation for murder. It is 1649. King Charles has been beheaded for treason. Amid civil war, Cromwell's army is running the country. The Levellers, a small faction of political agitators, are calling for rights to the people. And a new law targeting unwed mothers and "lewd women" presumes anyone who conceals the death of her illegitimate child is guilty of murder....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Summary: "A knife-sharp new collection about getting lost from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SIMZucker, Rachel.
Summary: Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps, Museum of Accidents is a brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 ZUCWendig, Chuck
Summary: "Haunted by their tragic pasts, Nate and Maddie Graves move back to their hometown with their son, Oliver, who becomes involved with a strange boy who has a taste for dark magic that puts them at the heart of a battle of good vs evil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WENSummary: Going inside a professional and very busy woodshop, this program shows how to prevent a wide range of carpentry-related hazards. An overview of basic safety measures focuses on the need for face masks, respirators, steel-toed shoes, and eye, ear, and hair protection. Safety zones, proper tool storage, flammable liquid storage, and overall cleanliness and organization are also emphasized. Advice...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Meyers, Morton A.
Summary: A look at the role of serendipity in major medical and scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century explains how chance led to the discovery of such medical advances as penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, and Viagra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.9 MEYSummary: Ruby is a neurotic with an unhappy track record concerning men and Sam is an oddball who is afraid of small dogs and has a barcode tattooed to his arm. Slowly, Sam begins to reveal his "past." He tells her that he is from the Dubuque of the future and that he hails from a family who believe that reproduction should occur the old-fashioned, fun way as opposed to the cloning method. Ruby is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPGardner, Lisa.
Summary: When the daughter of FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy dies suddenly, the death is ruled an accident, until investigator Rainie Conner uncovers evidence that points to a killer with the ability to unleash his victims' innermost fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GARPelzer, David J.
Summary: [This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1995
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Summary: Fiona has no time today not even to go to the bathroom. She is in a big hurry to show off the volcano she and Felix made for show-and-tell. Just as the volcano erupts... oops!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2018Mahaffey, James A
Summary: A researcher and nuclear energy advocate describes a number of nuclear mishaps, analyzing what happened and why and explains how each of these accidents have furthered the study of the atom and nuclear energy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 MAHBeauman, Ned.
Summary: "In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking ofactors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEALynch, Jane
Summary: Jane Lynch, best known for her award-winning role as hard-driving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee, tells the story of how she reached success by anything but a straight path. From teen alcoholic to out lesbian, from strange coincidences and chance meetings to offbeat character roles and finally a star turn--part comic memoir and part inspirational narrative, this is a book equally for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYNCH, JANE LYNSummary: This is the powerful story of 16-year-old Misha Heselwood, and her successful fight to regain her life after being seriously injured. The program begins with Misha's hospitalization with severe brain injuries suffered in a car accident and follows Misha, her family, and the medical staff over a nine-month period, charting her recovery from coma as she re-learns how to walk, talk, eat, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006