Summary: "Lost and alone, a young Indian boy travels through the wilds of the Old West. He finds shelter with a widowed horse trainer, who names him Frankie and teaches the outcast the tricks of the trade"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Gemstone Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Red 2003Barrett, Colin
Summary: "The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILBarrett, Colin
Summary: "When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins was published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARPerry, Thomas.
Summary: A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences--half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELCalvino, Italo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALBartlett, Craig
Summary: Join Buddy and the Pteranodon family as they go on a series of new adventures under the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DINCalin, Cassandra/ Calin, Cassandra (ILT)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"-- Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels. At least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it is just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASCalvino, Italo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALTrillin, Calvin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRIHartnett, Sonya
Summary: With their father, there is always a catch. Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts, toys, bikes, all that glitters most and makes them the envy of the neighbourhood. To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family from a magazine, and Rex a hero, successful,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HARCalvino, Italo.
Summary: Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALColvin, Jeffrey
Summary: "A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLBartlett, Neil
Summary: "Reggie Rainbow is an angry young man who treads the backstage corridors of down-at-heel theatres for a living. Childhood polio has left him with a limp, but his strong arms and nimble fingers are put to perfect use behind the scenes, helping the illusionist Mr Brookes to 'disappear' a series of glamorous assistants twice nightly. But in 1953, bookings for magic acts are scarce, even in London....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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Summary: When two very different women stop to help a stranger in trouble, the two women are drawn together by their love of knitting, and the two women help each other overcome grief and loss as their friendship grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSummary: Continues to chronicle the daily life-and-death battles of Chicago's elite medical professionals as they navigate challenging medical emergencies and intense personal drama. In last season's cliffhanger finale, Dr. Will Halstead got down on one knee and proposed to Dr. Natalie Manning, but will the two ever make it down the aisle?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 4Hartnett, Sonya.
Summary: In masterful prose, the author of Surrender tells a quiet but powerful tale of the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching: her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, at ease. The strength of the objects she stores in a briefcase under her bed—a crystal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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Calvino, Italo.
Contents: Under the jaguar sun -- A king listens -- The name, the nose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
Summary: In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978