Eisner, Will.
Summary: The legendary graphic novel and the sequels that launched an art form. With graphic narrative that "was closer to the writing of Bernard Malamud or Isaac Bashevis Singer than any comic art which had preceded it" (The Economist), A Contract with God, originally published in 1978, was the first graphic novel: the prototype-along with A Life Force and Dropsie Avenue-for such seminal works as Maus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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Summary: New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray transports readers to Bridgeport, Ohio, where nobody gets left behind and a powerful community helps ordinary men and women to find extraordinary strength inside themselves. Book 1: Shall We Dance?At twenty-seven, Shannon Murphy has just discovered that she has two sisters she never knew. Now, through Shannons loving persistence, the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC GRALegrand, Claire
Summary: When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Legrand 2018Follett, Ken.
Summary: Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits....An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House.... A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Jones, Howard A.
Summary: "In When the Goddess Wakes, the final book of the Ring-Sworn trilogy, Howard Andrew Jones returns to the five realms of the Dendressi to conclude his heroic, adventure-filled epic fantasy trilogy. The Naor hordes have been driven from the walls, but the Dendressi forces are scattered and fragmented, and their gravest threat lies before them. For their queen has slain the ruling council and fled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Marty McFly and Doc Brown time travel to the past, present and future in their DeLorean to restore the space-time continuum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: A ragtag network of humans--Eph, a brilliant scientist; Vasiliy Fet, an exterminator; and Gus, a former gangbanger--are determined to disrupt and destroy the vampire new world order.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORBuckley-Archer, Linda.
Summary: When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUCSummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARBaxter, Stephen.
Summary: Ten thousand years ago, a vast, fertile plain linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXRoberts, Jane
Summary: The education of Oversoul Seven: Seven explores the true nature of his being as he learns to communicate with four of his 'incarnations' -- four all-too-human people whose lives are separated by centuries, yet who also coexist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amber-Allen Pub. 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBStewart, Mary
Summary: A trilogy of stories about the legendary Merlin, magician of Camelot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eos 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESalvatore, R. A.
Summary: Believing his friends to be dead and his home overrun by vicious orcs, an isolated Drizzt Do'Urden takes on the solitary role of avenger as the Hunter, risking everything to destroy the orc king Obould.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The karate kid, special edition: Daniel, a fatherless teenager, arrives in Los Angeles from the East and faces the difficult task of making friends. He becomes the object of bullying by a gang of karate students when he strikes up a relationship with Ali, the gang leader's ex-girlfriend. Daniel asks Miyagi, a master of martial arts, to help him learn karate. Daniel then prepares himself both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KARSummary: A man washes up on the beach with no memory of who he is, but with an array of alarming skills; after being framed for the death of a CIA operative, Jason Bourne is forced to use his skills as a former assassin to save himself; super secret weapon Jason Bourne comes out of hiding one last time to learn about his past, risking assassination by the government that made him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BUCHoffman, Paul
Summary: Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Nora Roberts's In the Garden Trilogy "America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker) takes us to a historic Southern mansion that houses a gardening business—and a ghostly presence—in this winning trilogy of romance and suspense. Blue Dahlia Black Rose Red Lily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration of a family saga. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) follows a poor Bengali family living in a village. The boy Apu's development grows as he witnesses the protection of family members' reputations, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: An epic fantasy set in an alternate Victorian era--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLFountain, Ben.
Contents: Near-extinct birds of the central Cordillera -- Rêve haitien -- The good ones are already taken -- Asian tiger -- Bouki and the cocaine --The lion's mouth -- Brief encounters with Che Guevara -- Fantasy for eleven fingers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUShea, Robert.
Summary: It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big—but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Pub. Co. 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellarjourney. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2019