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Adventure and adventurers Comic books, strips, etc Curiosities and wonders Comic books, strips, etc Disney characters Comic books, strips, etc Friendship Friendship Drama Museums Comic books, strips, etc Pittsburgh (Pa.) Supernatural Comic books, strips, etc Teenagers Comic books, strips, etc United StatesSummary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICESummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATMoody, Rick
Summary: "Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many posts do more than just evaluate hotels around the globe--they tell his life story ... The puzzle of Reginald's life comes together through writings that comment upon his motivational-speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his daughter, his struggles with alcohol, and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSummary: A collection of Halloween stories featuring Disney characters includes Tiana searching for a ghost, Baymax going trick-or-treating, and Riley attending a Halloween party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NETSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUDoyle, Roddy
Summary: After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYDoyle, Roddy
Summary: "Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle's fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments. In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Doyle 2014Doyle, Roddy
Summary: "Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the streets, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYDoyle, Roddy
Summary: "Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Doyle 2020Doyle, Roddy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYDoyle, Roddy
Summary: A one-volume edition of the author's celebrated trio of comic novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, depicting the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYDoyle, Roddy
Summary: "A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Doyle 2017Doyle, Roddy
Summary: Henry Smart, a poor boy in 1900's Ireland, transforms himself into a larger-than-life figure who witnesses the evolution of his country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYSeifert, Brandon
Summary: "When their parent's were kidnapped by Despoina and the sinister Shadow Society, Maxwell and Melody Keep followed their mysterious Uncle Roland through a portal to the museum of the Weird, a vast depository of the world's most powerful--and threatening--supernatural objects."--Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC SEISummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESeifert, Brandon
Summary: "When their parent's were kidnapped by Despoina and the sinister Shadow Society, Maxwell and Melody Keep followed their mysterious Uncle Roland through a portal to the Museum of the Weird, a vast depository of the world's most powerful--and threatening--supernatural objects."--Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC SEISummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESeifert, Brandon
Summary: "When their parent's were kidnapped by Despoina and the sinister Shadow Society, Maxwell and Melody Keep followed their mysterious Uncle Roland through a portal to the museum of the Weird, a vast depository of the world's most powerful--and threatening--supernatural objects."--Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017