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Summary: "In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation. He quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERISummary: "Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting thier skills against ruthless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: "Imagine a First Contact without contact, and an alien arrival where no aliens show up. Imagine the sudden appearance of exclusion zones all over the planet, into which no humans are allowed. Imagine an end to all violence, from the schoolyard bully to nations at war. Imagine an end to borders, an end to all crime. Imagine a world where hate has no outlet and the only harm one can do is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Promontory Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: A latest tongue-in-cheek adventure starring evil necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach finds them hotly pursued through a legendary wasteland by a band of Nehemothanai hunters who are forced to make painful choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven
Summary: The continuing adventures of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and, if necessary, obliterate new life-forms. We join the not terribly bright but exceedingly cocksure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew on board the starship Willful Child for a series of adventures through "the infinite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: Tavore Paran struggles to hold her army together in order to combat a fearsome alien force, while the gods threaten to once again unleash dragons to destroy the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: Preparing for a long-prophesied uprising in the Holy Desert Raraku, seer Sha'ik and her followers anticipate the Malazan Empire's most violent conflict, which they believe will shape destinies and give rise to legendary figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: Years after a tribal attack on the southern flatlands, Tavore, an Adjunct to the Empress, struggles to train a band of some twelve thousand inexperienced recruits to meet an attack by the forces of her sister, Sha'ik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: A clash of warriors draws closer as Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor. Against this backdrop, a band of fugitives seek a way out of the empire, but one of them, Fear Sengar, must find the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye. It is his hope that the soul might help halt the Tiste Edur, and so save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERISheen, Charlie
Summary: Charlie Harper is living the happy life of a well-to-do bachelor with a beautiful home in Malibu when his brother, who is going through a divorce, moves in with his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: The complete third season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," featuring thirty-seven episodes aired in 1961-62.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "10 to Midnight: Charles Bronson plays a tough L.A. cop whose daughter is stalked by a cunning sex-killer. Kinjite (forbidden subjects): ...Charles Bronson is a vice squad veteran forced to battle his own racial prejudices when he's assigned to track down a young, Japanese girl enslaved by a vicious child prostitution ring."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox ; TGG Direct 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TENSummary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMSummary: A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Grand 2010Summary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010