Bock, Charles.
Summary: "Alice Culvert is a force: passionate, independent, smart, and gorgeous, she--to her delight--attracts attention wherever she goes, even amid the buzz of mid-90s New York. In knee-high boots, with her newborn daughter, Doe, strapped to her chest, Alice is one of those people who just seem so vividly alive, which makes her cancer diagnosis feel almost incongruous. How could such a being not go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCBock, Dennis
Summary: "After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada's most celebrated young writers now goes contemporary with the vibrant story of a man taking stock of the shape his life has taken, and why, and what--as a husband, a father, a brother, and an uncle--his responsibilities truly are. Charlie Bellerose leads a semi-nomadic existence, traveling widely to manage the language academies he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCBock, Charles.
Summary: One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCBock, Lee.
Summary: The misadventures of a sleepy farmer as he agonizes over a mixed-up list of the coming day's chores. How will he ever milk the fence, repair the cow, mow the silo and climb the hay before morning comes?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Tree Press 2003
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Summary: When Alex discovers that Rule is not a sanctuary, she must battle to survive against conniving adults, distrusting survivors, and the Changed, who would eat her alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BICBick, Ilsa J.
Summary: Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BICBick, Ilsa J.
Summary: "Alex and Tom's future is uncertain as they continue the struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, and their lives are threatened by the Changed and other human survivors"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BICBick, Ilsa J.
Summary: People in Merit, Wisconsin, always said Jimmy was . . . you know . But people said all sorts of stupid stuff. Nobody really knew anything. Nobody really knew Jimmy. I guess you could say I knew Jimmy as well as anyone (which was not very well). I knew what scared him. And I knew he had dreams—even if I didn't understand them. Even if he nearly ruined my life to pursue them. Jimmy's dead now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONSummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: The civil war amongst the Cylons escalates and Galactica's quest for Earth continues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Summary: Billy the Kid looks to avenge the death of his mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BILBeck, Glenn.
Summary: More than anything, Eddie wants a bicycle for Christmas, but his grandfather shows him the magic there can be in a simple gift made with love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin/Mercury Radio Arts, Inc. 2009
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E BecCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BECBeck, Jamie
Summary: "An unlikely couple must decide what truly defines family. Gentry Cabot's rebellious life comes to a screeching halt when a one-night stand leads to a sobering new reality: motherhood. Exhausted and overwhelmed, the former wild child struggles to raise an infant on her own. After a lifetime of feeling like the odd Cabot out, Gentry knows that what her son needs most is family. For his sake, she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BECStanton, Beck
Summary: "In this humorous concept book, readers are asked to question their logic for naming colors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STABeck, Jamie
Summary: "Steffi Lockwood has survived more than most. Now left with puzzling memory lapses following an assault, she returns to her coastal Connecticut hometown to rebuild her life the best way she knows how: with her hands. But starting a remodeling business with one longtime friend puts her in the middle of a rift with another. Worse, being hired by her ex-boyfriend's mother forces her to confront...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BECBeck, Glenn.
Summary: A young boy is given a sweater by his mother before she dies--a final gesture that teaches him the true meaning of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BecBeck, Glenn.
Summary: Years after losing her mother in a car accident that rendered her father emotionally distant, Rachel resolves to escape from an abusive marriage to protect her young daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBeck, Haylen
Summary: "Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBeck, Hazel
Summary: "Emerson Wilde has built the life of her dreams. Youngest Chamber of Commerce president in St. Cyprian history, successful indie bookstore owner, and lucky enough to have her best friends as found family? Done. But when Emerson is attacked by creatures that shouldn't be real, and kills them with what can only be called magic, Emerson finds that the past decade of her life has been...a lie. St....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeckBeck, Glenn.
Summary: When the government comes for her mother, Emmeline embarks on a plan to save her family and expose the truth behind the objectives of the United Nations' agenda 21.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBeck, Glenn.
Summary: It was once called America, but now it is just 'the Republic.' Following the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, the once-proud people of America have become obedient residents who live in barren, brutal Compounds and serve the autocratic, merciless Authorities
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions / Mercury Radio Arts 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBeck, Glenn.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010