Summary: Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STOSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODPatkotak, Josiah
Summary: When an argument during an early morning seal hunt results in a tragic accident, the friendship between two teenage boys is tested as they weave a web of deceit trying to hide their dark secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millenium Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONHirTsal, Josef
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 HIRNovakovich, Josip
Contents: The burning clog -- Yahbo the hawk -- Yolk -- Apple -- Wool -- Rust -- Petrol and chocolate -- The eye of God -- The address -- Bricks -- A drop of cognac -- Darkened vision -- Dresden -- Turkish coffee -- Honey in the carcase -- Hats and veils -- Raw paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVNovakovich, Josip
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVSagarra, Josep Maria de
Summary: "Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAGSummary: Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POM RATED PG-13Loeb, Jeph.
Summary: Wolverine and Sabretooth's bitter rivalry comes to a climax in a fight that spans the globe and has lasting consequences for the rest of the world's mutants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WOLLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: Comic industry giants Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween) and Joe Kelly (X-Men), along with some of the hottest up-and-coming artists in the business, usher in a new generation of Superman excitement by taking the Man of Steel back to basics. He's died, been resurrected, exiled, accused, turned blue and even split in two, but now, in the capable hands of two of comics' most happening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2000
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Summary: Superman's hometown has grown up a bit in his absence, and he is called back to defend it against eco-terrorism, lake demons and other threats. Upon his return to Metropolis, our hero gets a visit from one of his deadliest foes, the Parasite, who's hungry for a rematch with the Man of Steel. But Superman's greatest challenge lies in his own home. Marital problems have come to the Kent house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2001
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSARAMAGO, JOSE
Summary: An illustrated fable on dreaming the impossible. The hero is a man who asks a king for a boat to search for an unknown island. How can you search for something unknown? Well, it turns out you can, provided you are willing to follow your dreams, and what is more your dreams may come true. By the author of The Stone Raft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARAnthony, Joseph (Joseph Patrick)
Summary: A seed dreams of becoming a dandelion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2014
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Summary: Recounts some of Superman's earliest adventures including leaving Smallville for Metropolis and battling his enemy, Lex Luthor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1999
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect, John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JIGLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: A collection of Batman comics, originally published in thirteen monthly installments, following the efforts of the costumed crime fighter to save Gotham from a serial killer, a crime lord, and assorted gangsters and freaks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2011
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATBruchac, Joseph
Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CallCedar, Joseph
Summary: A group of young Israeli soldiers must try to survive before they are pulled out of Lebanon, and protect a fortress that is sacred to both Israelis and Arabs alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEAConrad, Joseph
Summary: In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConrad, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: 9660
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConrad, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONDelaney, Joseph
Summary: When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2008