Besher, Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins West 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESBester, Alfred.
Summary: A collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: 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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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIBergeron, Alain M.
Summary: "In this illustrated novel for middle-grade readers, Billy Stuart and his loyal Scout group get lost on a hike and inadvertently travel through time."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BERSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: An original comedy series that takes a modern look at love and happiness through two people who haven't been successful with either. After a whirlwind courtship and devastating break-up, Jimmy and Gretchen struggle to move on while constantly being pulled back toward one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: 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 MELSummary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a whirlwind courtship and rough post-cohabitation period, Season Three finds Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) trying to keep the good times rolling while confronting the F- word ... "family". Meanwhile, Edgar (Desmin Borges) searches for therapy to combat his PTSD, and Lindsay (Kether Donohue) faces a big decision in this original comedy series that takes a modern look at love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: "Join Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this graphic novel that features a comic adaptation of the classic story Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, classic Schulz strips, previously published stories, and an all-new original story about Linus and his trusty blanket! From rainy days to learning new things and working as a team, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang have plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SCUFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: Forced into exile on an enchanted, moving island, ex-princess Noa Marchena has two missions: reclaim her family₂s stolen throne and ensure that the dark powers her older brother, Julian, possesses don't go to his head in the process. But between babysitting her annoying little sister, Mite, and keeping an eye on the cake-loving sea monster that guards the moving island, Noa has her hands full....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FAWFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: "In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAWFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: Fleeing from the orphanage where she lives, Grace makes a deal with the witch in the nearby woods--if Grace can learn all the witch's spells, she must make Grace her apprentice--an agreement that leads to an unexpected bond, and an unimaginable sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAWFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Autumn, the beastkeeper at Inglenook School for Magicians, befriends Cai Morrigan the young magician prophesied to destroy the dragon suspected of devouring Autumn's twin brother, and together they uncover the dark truth that lies at the heart of Inglenook School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAWKaufman, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: "Responsible for raising her siblings, Lazarus and Mary, after her mother's untimely death, Martha finds solace in friendship and the beginnings of first love, until adversity strikes again. Many years later, a life-changing encounter with Jesus of Nazareth reawakens Martha's heart, even as she faces an unknown future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: "When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late in this second installment of the Emily Wilde series. Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world's first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She's learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FAWKaufman, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: Hana is between homes, between jobs, between a rock and a hard place. She and her special needs son, Isaac, are running from a painful past, and she's looking to the future without much hope. Then she meets Pastor Matthew Schofield. As Matt forms a surprising bond with Isaac, Hana is challenged to view God and his promises in a whole new light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Concordia Publishing House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUContents: Crazy hair day -- and more funny school adventures. Crazy hair day / written and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg -- Petunia / written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- How do dinosaurs go to school? / written by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Mark Teague -- Monty / written and illustrated by James Stevenson -- Will I have a friend? / by Miriam Cohen ; illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CRAFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: Unable to control her tendency to burst into flame, twelve-year-old Ember, a dragon transformed into a girl by her foster father, is sent to Antarctica where she tries to save ice dragons from extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Featuring guest-editor contributions by the Edgar Alan Poe Award-winning author of the Joe Pickett series, a latest annual anthology features top-selected short mystery and crime fiction stories from the past year"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006