Summary: Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Joan of ArcLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LE GRoy, Lucinda
Summary: "The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy's explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYSummary: "Civilization has fallen. Everyone who survived the plague had life as they know it end in blood and chaos. Now nuclear submarines are facing sudden and unimaginable crises. Paid hunters on a remote island suddenly cut off from any support. Elite assassins. Never made it retirees. Bong-toting former soldiers. These are their stories. These are the Voices of the Fall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOIGraham, Heather
Summary: "FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she's been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semisalvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can't imagine making a worse first impression. Especially when she's partnered with Patrick moving forward....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: "Your Future Is Bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: "For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2020
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Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICSummary: Many people in the world today see those who do not look like them, or who speak differently as being separate; as "other." Relations challenges the human illusion of separation, illuminating the connections that link us all as humans, different though equal in every way. In this powerful anthology, new and established storytellers reshape the narratives that restrict and subjugate, revealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.8 RELJennings, Maureen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PICLuzzader, Amanda
Summary: "An unhealthy coral reef and pollution in the ocean. An entire undersea town turned upside-down. Can Brynn Finley solve Fulgent's latest mystery and get to Jay Barracuda and the Killer Whales concert before Phaedra the sea witch turns her into a lowly sea slug? When a beautiful and talented young mermaid named Priscilla Banks moves to Fulgent, everything starts going wrong for Brynn. Her best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Luzzader 2020Summary: Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOU3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUWiles, Deborah.
Summary: In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is colored, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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Summary: From the author who's inspired millions worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most imaginative novel yet, The Time Keeper —a compelling fable about the first man on earth to count the hours. The man who became Father Time. In Mitch Albom's newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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Summary: As the slave masters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, secret agent Anton Zilwicki investigates a wave of mysterious assassinations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEB CS #2Summary: "Day of Joy is a collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's waking up to the sound of frying samosas and simmering pistachio kheer, maybe it's the pleasure of putting on a new outfit for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ONCConrad, Joseph
Summary: Putting into port at an idyllic island in order to collect a cargo of sugar, a young ship's captain mistakes the expansive Mr. Jacobus, a ship-chandler, for his merchant brother, with whom he has been advised to do business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hesperus 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONHabiby, Emile.
Summary: Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure; his life is lived in constant fear, yet he is never without hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABChaudhuri, Amit
Summary: Three novels by an Indian writer, featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party, in Afternoon Raag he is an Indian student in Oxford, and in A Strange and Sublime Address he is a small boy visiting family in Calcutta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAFaqir, Fadia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAQSummary: Basada en una historia real, Voces inocentes es una cuenta la conmovedora historia de Chava, un niño de once años que atrapado en medio de la guerra civil de los años 80 en El Salvador, tiene que convertirse en "el hombre de la casa" después de que su padre los abandona.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VOCGrainger, Jean
Summary: "Carmel Sheehan was raised in an orphanage in Dublin, and always believed what she was told, that her unmarried mother abandoned her as a newborn. Forty years later, living in rural Ireland, in an unfulfilling marriage, and she has no reason to suspect that version of her past was untrue, until she gets a Facebook message one day from a stranger claiming it was all lies. Carmel begins a journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022