Wiig, Kristen
Summary: After winning the lottery, a woman with borderline personality disorder buys her own television talk show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Media Services Inc 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WELSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZCash, Dixie.
Summary: "The Domestic Equalizers are back, in a new hilarious Southern tale from the ever-popular Dixie Cash"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon A 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASDiop, David
Summary: "A 'Chocolat' soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. Injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind. He sees this refusal as cowardice. To avenge the death of his friend and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALDain, Claudia.
Summary: On the night of her debut two years ago, Lady Louisa Kirkland fell for the devilish Marquis of Dutton. It's high time, she's decided, that he realized he loves her. Also, there is the matter of Louisa's family pearls, which are in his possession. For both problems, Louisa will need the help of Lady Sophia, an ex-courtesan more clever than all the other matrons combined. Set in Regency England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIDini, Paul
Summary: This Batman one-shot reveals the origins of Harley Quinn as she proves her love to the Joker by trying to eliminate the Dark Knight on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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Summary: A group of teenage girls discover a dark secret about their fame-hungry Florida town that will haunt them for the rest of their lives when their friend, the local preacher's daughter, Sammy, goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TATSummary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPDoig, Ivan.
Summary: The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMSummary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLICussler, Dirk
Summary: "In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact was seemingly lost. But when Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a missile from Luzon Strait. Only someone else is after it, too--a rogue Chinese military team that makes their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CUSDiop, David
Summary: "A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIODias, Denise
Summary: One foggy night, while all the bats were out scanning trees and skimming ponds for delicious dinner, Burton noticed something strange. A small stream of light poured into the cave from behind a puzzle of rocks ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Royal Ontario Museum Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DIASummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPDial, Connie
Summary: Detective Mike Turner hates corrupt cops. He's back in LAPD's Internal Affairs, assigned to a special surveillance squad where he doggedly pursues a trio of uniformed thugs preying on those they've sworn to protect and serve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIADoig, Ivan.
Summary: Owen Duff, a civil engineer, is assigned to work on the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, a project that is born of President Roosevelt's New Deal, and must contend with his entire unruly Scottish-American family--brothers, sisters-in-law, and parents--while trying to tame the Missouri River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DOIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: Teaching voice lessons to the privileged members of society during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Susan Duff is hired by a man who once harbored political ambitions to teach his African American chauffeur how to sing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOIDion, Katharine
Summary: "After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018