Summary: A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that seperates temptation from sin, he finds himself...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRIGroom, Winston
Summary: After feared outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa kidnaps his grandchildren, railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, ventures to El Paso with his adopted son and a band of hired cowboys on a rescue mission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GROPynchon, Thomas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNPancholy, Maulik
Summary: "From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PANPancol, Katherine
Summary: "Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France - When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two-confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoe;-is forced to maintain a stable family life while...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNPancholy, Maulik
Summary: Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PANPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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Summary: Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: After World War I, some of the people lived greedily, not knowing that disaster was heading their way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PYNPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PYNPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship. By the author of Vineland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRSummary: After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood, and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell . . . and back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "In Paco Roca's intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Through flashbacks into each...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCMcKy, Katie.
Summary: Once, after a bountiful pumpkin harvest, as four brothers dispose of unneeded seeds, the seeds suddenly go flying with the wind and cover the town below, but the brothers think nothing more about it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MCKO'Meara, Colin
Summary: Reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy travel around the world on adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADVSuzuki, Julietta
Summary: When Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit! Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she’s just saved from a dog offers to let her stay at his place while he’s away, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his home is a shrine...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAMRoca, Paco
Summary: "Based on historical events, this gripping graphic novel chronicles the fierce physical, legal, and political battles sparked by the discovery of an ancient underwater treasure. May 2007. When an American treasure-hunting company uncovers a shipwreck containing the greatest underwater trove ever found, the world is captivated by their discovery. But over in Spain, a group of low-level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCRoca, Paco
Summary: "The celebrated Spanish cartoonist's most ambitious work yet is a touching homage to his mother and a bittersweet depiction of life in post-war Spain. It all starts with a photograph: an ordinary scene of a young woman and her family picnicking at a Valencian beach in 1947. Now in her twilight years, Antonia cherishes this photo dearly; it holds the memories of her upbringing, her family --the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2024