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Bain, Donald Blair, Clifford. Mabanckou, Alain Parker, Marjorie Blain. Plain, Belva. Vaës, Alain.Summary: Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMEVaës, Alain.
Summary: In this adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea," the prince is ready for marriage but the Queen is more concerned with her jewelry collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAEMabanckou, Alain
Summary: "A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mabanckou 2017Bain, Donald
Summary: Desperate to embark on a new life in Argentina with the beautiful Gina Ellanado, Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe devises a money-making scheme, but things go off the rails when he does business with local Mafia boss Dominick Martone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIParker, Marjorie Blain.
Summary: Extols the virtues of dads who still read comics and watch cartoons, understand that clothes do not have to match and that pancakes need not be round, and do not mind getting their hair wet--if they have any.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARSummary: In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHOPlain, Belva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAPlain, Belva.
Summary: Charlotte Dawes, a New York architect who was raped as a girl, is frigid. She meets Roger Haywood, a developer who provides her with the capital she needs for a project. A romance ensues and Charlotte is cured.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLABain, Donald
Summary: Television's beloved sleuth Jessica Fletcher is back in her twenty-ninth adventure. Cabot Cove, Maine, annually hosts an elaborate Fourth of July celebration, and this year is no exception. Between historical reenactments, parade floats, and the fireworks show, the community is abuzz with activity. No one is more enthusiastic than the town's newest resident, corporate mogul Joseph Lennon. His...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Bain, Donald
Summary: If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRUBain, Donald
Summary: Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, ends up involved in a murder mystery up north in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica Fletcher has booked a one-week cruise through Alaska in order to enjoy some solitude. Her plans are thwarted when Kathy Randall asks to accompany her. Kathy's sister, Wilimena, recently disappeared from the same cruise ship that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VISBlair, Clifford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASummary: A collection of thirteen original ghost stories, some in rhyme, by Blaise Hemingway and Jesse Reffsin, accompanied by illustrations by Chris Sasaki and Jeff Turley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GHOBain, Donald
Summary: David Portland's life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company. Information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception - one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIBain, Donald
Summary: "Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bain 2014Bain, Donald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAIPlain, Belva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PLAIPlain, Belva.
Summary: Decades after her father kidnapped her from his ex-wife's home to save her from an unstable environment, a young woman struggles to come to terms with her father's criminal action and the deception that forms the foundation of her entire life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAPlain, Belva.
Summary: Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly raising their own children and Margaret's orphaned niece. Then one day the phone rings--and suddenly everything changes forever as a woman from Adam's university days reappears in his life, and an old affair re-ignites. At the same time, there are problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLAPlain, Belva.
Summary: Violence, political upheaval, and clandestine love surround the St. Felice island estate, Eleuthera, and the flamboyant family that owns the estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAPlain, Belva.
Summary: Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. For three decades her deeply moving epics have captivated the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere. Now, in her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen , bringing us this unforgettable story of family and friendship,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Plain, Belva.
Summary: Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly raising their own children and Margaret's orphaned niece. Then one day the phone rings--and suddenly everything changes forever as a woman from Adam's university days reappears in his life, and an old affair re-ignites. At the same time, there are problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAPlain, Belva.
Summary: The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008