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Summary: Something big is coming ... big enough to destroy the entire solar system ... and it's heading straight for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter and wife, who are vacationing in Italy: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Mather, Matthew
Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATSummary: Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter-ego. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VeBaumgart, Klaus.
Summary: A lonely little girl befriends a star that has fallen out of the sky, but when the star begins to get sick she must allow it to return home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tiger Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Baumgart 1997Baumgart, Klaus.
Summary: When her family's Christmas trip has to be cancelled, Laura finds a way to create a special kind of magic for the holiday, with the help of her own special star.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tiger Press 1999
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E BAUBaumgart, Klaus.
Summary: A lonely little girl befriends a star that has fallen out of the sky, but when the star begins to get sick she must allow it to return home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tiger Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC BAUHarvey, Matthea
Summary: Ruby Small's embarrassingly eccentric parents take her on a vacation to Norway where she acquires an unwanted pet, a glacier named Cecil, who finds a way to melt Ruby's heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARNew, Mathew
Summary: Billy dreams of being a great explorer like his parents, but when he and his friend Barrace, a duck and college linguistics professor, undertake four adventures, they discover little but trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NEWRoth, Matthue.
Summary: Presents illustrated adaptations of three Franz Kafka stories, including "The Metamorphosis," in which Gregor Samsa awakens one day to find that he has been transformed into an enormous bug, and two shorter works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One Peace Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROTMathews, Francine
Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCMathes, Charles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: Malou, a mixed-race orphan, is on her own for the first time, trying to discover her parents' identities.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Audio 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC JOCMathews, Francine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATSummary: One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BITMayhew, Julie
Summary: "For seven months of the year, the remote island of Lark is fogbound, cut off completely from the mainland. Three strangers arrive before the mists fall: Ben Hailey, a charismatic teacher looking to make his mark, teenager Viola Kendrick, and her mother, both seeking a place to hide from unspeakable tragedy. As the winter fog sets in, the presence of the newcomers looms large in this tight-knit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYLubchansky, Mattie
Summary: "Newly-out trans artist's assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend's bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters -- think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Though they have not identified as a man for over a year, Sammie's old friends haven't quite gotten the message -- as evidenced by their former best friend Adam...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUBMathews, Brendan
Summary: Fleeing Ireland for New York City after stealing a small fortune from the IRA, three brothers immerse themselves in the cultural and political tensions of 1939, only to find their lives falling apart when they are tracked down by a hired assassin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, detective Meredith Folger investigates the drowning of a man who worked the scallop boats. A tale of drugs and murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: A skeleton is discovered by two children and a dog on a beach on Nantucket Island. It is that of their father, or perhaps that of their father's mistress with whom he disappeared eight years earlier? Local detective Merry Folger investigates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Beryl.
Summary: After a traumatic past, life finally seems to be looking up for Hanna Foster. But war is on its way... London, 1938 Hanna and Jack Foster had been sent to an orphanage when their parents were killed in a train crash, but were separated when a couple adopted Jack. Bullied and treated like a slave, it soon became clear it was a dreadful mistake. In desperation, Jack takes his future into his own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2012
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Matthews, Carole.
Summary: Lucy Lombard and her fellow addicts--Autumn, Nadia, and Chantal--join together to form the Chocolate Lovers' Club, which meets at a café called Chocolate Heaven whenever there is a crisis in one of the member's lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Jeanne.
Summary: Dinah Perlerin joins her extended family in a lodge in Queensland, Australia to witness her wealthy American uncle's rewrite of his will before his assisted suicide and is met with two murders and the discovery that everything she believed true about herfamily is false.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010