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Summary: "In nine lively essays, critc Aisha Harris invites us into the wonderful, maddening process of making sense of the pop culture we consume. Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, AISHA HARGoodrich, David M.
Summary: "The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the Underground Railroad and delve into the history and stories in the places where they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 GOOV
Summary: "The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 VAirth, Rennie
Summary: The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away. While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRCoulter, Catherine
Summary: "When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered. Fourteen years later, Kirra is an attorney in Porte Franklyn, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, Emma was saved by her adoptive father. Now a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COUGrateful Dead (Musical group)
Contents: Dire wolf -- The race is on -- It must have been the roses -- Dark hollow -- China doll -- Been all around this world -- Monkey and the engineer -- Jack-a-roe -- Deep elem blues -- Cassidy -- To lay me down -- Rosa Lee McFall -- On the road again -- Bird song -- Ripple.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRAR.E.M. (Musical group)
Contents: Harborcoat -- 7 Chinese bros. -- So. central rain -- Pretty persuasion -- Time after time (annElise) -- Second guessing-- Letter never sent -- Camera -- (Don't go back to) Rockville -- Little America.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: I.R.S. 1984
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REMWatson, Jude.
Summary: When Ferus Olin was a young Jedi apprentice, his rival was a headstrong student named Anakin Skywalker. Now Ferus is older, trying to save the Jedi order from extinction. His enemy, however, remains the same, because Anakin Skywalker is now Darth Vader...and Darth Vader wants Ferus Olin destroyed. This is their final encounter. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J SWlj 10Kimbra
Summary: Two-time Grammy-award-winning artist Kimbra's fourth studio album is a reflective record capturing the macro reckonings of our world around the environment, health, race, spirituality and feminism. But at the heart of the record is her war with the micro reckonings that she faces internally. It's the most sonically autonomous and confessionally raw she has ever been, finding influence in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KIMSummary: Shunned by the township she was raised in, a young Amish woman finds herself enjoying an affluent life in the secular world and engaged to a successful businessman. When a long lost love unexpectedly returns from her past with a startling revelation, she is torn between her newfound modern life and the simplicity of her humble past, and must now choose the life, and the man, that will finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALArmstrong, Kelley.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Chloe, a necromancer, struggles to understand her feelings for werewolf Derek and his sorcerer brother, Simon, while seeking a way to enter the headquarters of the sinister Edison Group and rescue her aunt Lauren and friend Rachelle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARMYrsa Sigurdardóttir
Summary: Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick her up, her mother has forgotten to give her this week's pocket money, and the school is already locked for the day. Grownups, she decides, are useless. With no way to call home, she resigns herself to waiting on the steps until her father remembers her. When a girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YRSBurrows, Edwin G.
Summary: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.371 BURGreenwood, Elizabeth
Summary: "What is it like to fall in love through the bars of a prison cell? Elizabeth Greenwood spent five years investigating relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside. She profiled couples whose love through incarceration runs the gamut in terms of sexual orientation, race, and circumstances of their incarceration. A sort of Modern Love: Prison Edition, LOVE LOCKDOWN...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 GREAirth, Rennie
Summary: "The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away ...While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRGrisham, John
Summary: In 1946 Clanton, Mississippi, World War II hero Pete Banning calmly and inexplicably kills his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell, and refuses to defend his actions during the subsequent trial.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICasey, Jane (Jane E.)
Summary: When the murders of two released sex offenders point to the work of a vigilante, DC Maeve Kerrigan and the division's new DI, Josh Derwent, follow leads to a man who has been searching for his missing teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASHalberstam, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HALGrisham, John
Summary: Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2018Hunt, James Patrick
Summary: "Tracy Coughlin is a nurse and a mother. She lost her husband in the Iraq war and for reasons she doesn't even understand holds her father-in-law Lee responsible for it. Lee Coughlin is a proud man and a quiet one. He too grieves the loss of Tracy's husband and his son but he can't bring himself to discuss it with Tracy. Tracy, her son, and Lee are all taken captive by three escaped convicts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNJohns, Ethan
Contents: Go slow -- Dry morning -- The fool -- Among the sugar pines -- The roses and the dead --Talking talking blues -- The lo down ballad of James Yunger -- Black heart -- You changed -- This modern London.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOHFong-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 FONMarrin, Albert
Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KORGrisham, John
Summary: In 1946 Clanton, Mississippi, World War II hero Pete Banning calmly and inexplicably kills his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell, and refuses to defend his actions during the subsequent trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018