Gates, Eva
Summary: "It's summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James's college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GATSummary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNISummary: When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOHSummary: When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONStachniak, Eva.
Summary: From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history's boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great's improbable rise to power--as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne. Her name is Barbara--in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Woods, Eva
Summary: "Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted--and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOSummary: Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONGreen, Eva
Summary: When the only woman in a French astronaut training program is chosen for a year-long space mission, it creates difficulties in her relationship with her seven-year-old daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PROSummary: Former U.S. soldier John Rambo has settled into a peaceful retirement on his father's ranch after years of fighting and facing his PTSD. But the desire for revenge urges him to travel to Mexico, where he confronts a drug cartel. He quickly finds that his past has caught up with him. As the cartel chases him down, Rambo must use all his deadly combat skills to enact vengeance. With his trusty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAMSummary: A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KNIStachniak, Eva
Summary: Told in the voice of Catherine the Great as the Romanov monarch reflects on her ascension to the throne, her rule over the world's greatest power, and the sacrifices that made her the most feared and commanding woman of her time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EXSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHESummary: A fantasy adventure based on the Arthurian legend, the film tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's headstrong nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous knight, a gigantic tree-like creature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GREBates, Marni.
Summary: Holly Dayton is about to go way out of her comfort zone. . Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly's idea of a good time. And when in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation she lurches into an open suite—she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. The culprit? A gorgeous guy calling himself Nick. But when Holly goes to make her exit, she gets the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2012
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Summary: Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. When his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY MOVIE DRESummary: Gloria is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GLOYates, Louise.
Summary: Dog loves drawing so much that he draws his very own adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YATVernick, Shirley Reva.
Summary: Latent hostility against the Jews erupts in a blood lie when Daisy, a young Gentile girl, disappears in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2011
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Askaripour, Mateo
Summary: "For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASKMayes, Frances
Summary: Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYEakes, Laurie Alice.
Summary: When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never dreamed he would turn up in her parlor. But just as the London Season is getting under way, there he is, along with a few other questionable personages. While she should be focused on helping her headstrong younger sister prepare for her entré into London society, Lady Gale finds herself preoccupied with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011