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Summary: It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London; unaware of its dangerous power ... or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city. Stoker, a successful theater manager but frustrated writer, is drawn into a deadly web spun by the wealthy founders of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMasello, Robert
Summary: After months of seclusion following a tragic accident, journalist Michael Wolfe accepts an assignment in Antarctica, where the scientists and explorers from a South Pole research station stumble upon two bodies at the bottom of the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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Summary: Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is offered a job no one else wants -- to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918 and was once devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMaskell, Neil
Summary: When a mentally unstable contract killer agrees to take on a new assignment, his sanity begins to unravel and he questions his own reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR KILMauriello, Thomas P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PI Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 MAUBakshi, Ralph
Summary: Frodo the Hobbit and his friends fight to save Middle-Earth from the Dark Power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LORCompton, Ralph.
Summary: The ranchers riding with Rand Hayes cross the Mojave Desert to confront the hardships of a brutal land, a hostile Ute nation, and the mysterious territory of California in their attempts to drive the cattle to market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMMeeker, Ralph
Summary: Private detective Mike Hammer thwarts the theft of radioactive material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeters, Ralph
Summary: "The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley ... pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: ... Phillip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart; ... the dashing Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon, a charismatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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Summary: "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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Summary: "A dog writes the story of its adoption-and learning to live in a loving home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: "Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALCompton, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charnwood 2000
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Summary: Twelve stories by the author of Invisible Man. In I Did Not Learn Their Names, an elderly couple with no money rides the rails to visit a son, A Party Down at the Square is on a lynching, while In a Strange Country is on a black sailor who feels at home in Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLEllison, Ralph.
Summary: Unabridged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Summary: Excitement is spreading through the halls of Dash Candoo's school. The Face-Pulling Championships are about to begin, featuring students holding their faces in such positions as the Vibrating Jaw-Drop with Eye-Roll and the Dripping Stare of Death. Dash and his classmates have been getting ready for this day for ages. But then, suddenly, right before the championship, blue spots appear on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: When a beautiful and brilliant Army lieutenant is found murdered at a post on the Mexican border, military and civilian investigators struggle with a long list of possible suspects and a long-standing breakdown in regional discipline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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Summary: Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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Summary: Imagines a post-apocalyptic war launched by America in retaliation against Islamic extremists who have used nuclear weapons to destroy Los Angeles, Israel and parts of Europe, a battle that is complicated by anti-Muslim Christian zealots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1997
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Summary: In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLLazar, Ralph
Summary: Dash Candoo's Monday is filled with adventure--during breakfast battling scallywags and the Devil Cat and then at school, confronted with Total Mayhem Situations involving an assortment of missing objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021