Summary: An alien crashes deep into the oilfields of New Mexico with a mission: he must find the brilliant scientist Justin Falls, the one woman on earth who can help save his species. An unlikely duo, together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours. An inspired continuation of the novel by Walter Tevis and the iconic 1976 film starring David Bowie. This three-disc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANHahn, Mary Downing
Summary: "Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to Fox Hill Inn,and business booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that theirs aren't the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEMeomi
Summary: When the Octonauts, a team of eight animal underwater explorers, meet a frowning fish, they try their best to make it smile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Immedium 2008
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Summary: When the Octonauts, a team of eight animals who explore the ocean, discover a bleached and abandoned coral reef, they learn about the important relationships among animals, plants, and their habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Immedium 2009
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Summary: When the shadows in the ocean go missing, the Octonauts, a team of eight animal underwater explorers, must travel to the Sea of Shade to find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Immedium 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Meomi 2007Pettersen, Siri
Summary: Separated and struggling to survive in two different worlds, Hirka and Rime vow to defeat the ancient evil that offers immortality at a dangerous price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETMunaweera, Nayomi.
Summary: "Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Born by blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETPettersen, Siri
Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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Summary: "In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUNPedersen, Aaron
Summary: An Australian indigenous detective returns home to the outback to investigate the disappearance of two young boys from a remote cattle ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSRapace, Noomi
Summary: Explorers discover a clue that may point to the origins of mankind on Earth and leads them to a distant planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PROEve, Nomi
Summary: "In Yemen in 1920 ... Adela Damari's parents desperately seek a future husband for their young daughter. After passage of the Orphan's Decree, any unbetrothed Jewish child left orphaned will be instantly adopted by the local Muslim community. With her parents' health failing, and no spousal prospects in sight, Adela's situation looks dire until her uncle arrives from a faraway city, bringing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEPetterson, Per
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika begin to suspect that their new friend Emma's life is in serious danger, and they're certain that her long-lost twin, Marie, is the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIPetterson, Per
Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
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 PETPetterson, Per
Summary: An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Toni and Mika receive a letter announcing Chris and Marie's engagement. Since Mika has had a crush on Chris forever, and Marie is their sworn enemy, the twins are upset by this news. They decide to journey to Diamas to rescue Chris. Captured by the maniacal Marie, they are forced to attend the evil engagement party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIPetterson, Per
Summary: In Danish Jutland before the Nazi invasion, a young girl dreams of embarking on a great journey to Siberia, while her brother instead dreams of the warmer climate of Morocco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETPetersen, David
Summary: Jasper Bunny spends a snowy Valentine's Day visiting his forest friends in hopes of finding the perfect gift for his beloved Lilly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: "The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF ALDBenaron, Naomi
Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012