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Cults Fiction Extraterrestrial beings Comic books, strips, etc Fathers and daughters Fiction Interpersonal relations Comic books, strips, etc Interpersonal relations Fiction Life on other planets Fiction Love Comic books, strips, etc Love Fiction Science fiction Zoo animals FictionSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Small mercies: Little Worthing's model village is the highlight of its tourism trade, until a dead body disfigures it. The creeper: A cat burlar's robberies exppose the dark secrets of a prominent family. The great and the good: A village school's possible closing leads to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDErian, Alicia.
Summary: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURMcDonald, Briana
Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDBrin, David.
Summary: Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRISummary: The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCBrin, David.
Summary: After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: When Hari Seldon learns of a conspiracy that will threaten the existence of his Second Foundation, he sets out with a group of unlikely companions to stop the conspiracy before it destroys all humankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRIBonwill, Ann.
Summary: Hugo Hippo and Bella Bird are best friends, but a disagreement over costumes may prevent the two from attending the annual "Fairytale Fancy Dress Party."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Brin, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIAlston, Bria
Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALSRoyal, Bria
Summary: What if your magic is your mania?: Struggling to stay afloat off the coast of the last habitable landmass on the planet, Géminis Castores makes a garden ‘discovery’ that could secure her a SPOT for generations to come - until a psychological split turns out to be both the brink and bane of her success. bria royal’s Black Girl Mania: The Graphic Novel uses afro-indigenous futurism and comic book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROYBrin, David
Summary: The starship Streaker is still on the run with its dangerous cargo of ancient artifacts when the prophesied Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. As each race battles for control and chaos reigns, the truth about the Five Galaxies and The Progenitors finally comes to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: A new society of sapient beings has secretly evolved on the forbidden planet Jijo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: An alliance between the formerly warring enemy races of Jijo is tested by the arrival of starship technology, and various grudges and criminal acts threaten one of the planet's races with genocide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: At Jodrell Band in England Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin--a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGAlston, Bria
Summary: When Tiana decides to try cooking with a new spicy pepper, she is excited to begin but first, she learns how to plant a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH/Disney 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ALSSummary: Digitally remastered Doctor Who classic The Green Death Special Edition! When a man is found dead with his skin glowing green in an abandoned mine, it's not long before the Doctor, Jo Grant and UNIT head to Wales to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCBilan, Jasbinder
Summary: "Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BILBroun, Bill
Summary: In 2052 London, a homeless man who believes he has the magical ability to communicate with animals sets off on a quest to release all the animals from the London Zoo before the members of a suicide cult can destroy them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016