Summary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO
Summary: Vast dangers lurking in the fantasy realm navigate a path to Earth, becoming a threat in reality, and it's up to Dirk and the gang to stop them in their tracks. But first, they need to find each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC America 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DIRLaties, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vox Pop 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 LATBrown, Echo
Summary: "Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side of Cleveland, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich white school on the West Side and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy tale rise is rooted in an incredible deception. What no one knows is that Nora is the biracial daughter of a Caribbean woman and a long-gone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASummary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFEco, Umberto.
Summary: In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOLanier, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2007
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Summary: 1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future...The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC TIDHubbard, Ladee
Summary: "At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: He's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains for Johnny. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African-American family that has been gifted with rather super powers that are rather sad, but superpowers nonetheless. For example, Johnny's father could...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUBEco, Umberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOEco, Umberto.
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ECOLaden, Nina.
Summary: The reader can look through die-cut pages for a visual clue to complete a game of peek-a-boo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Laden 2000Robertson, Sadie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old A.J. Smith, who was born and raised in backwoods Tennessee, attends school with Kate Kelly, a fashionable girl on a reality show, and the two Christian girls eventually become friends, even as the show's producers try and cause conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ROBHubbard, Ladee
Summary: A collection of short stories captures powerful and poignant moments in everyday lives of African American families, friends, and neighbors in the years spanning from the beginning of the Clinton presidency to the eve of Barack Obama's election.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUBWaldon, Lacie
Summary: Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. That's what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown--and part of what keeps her from leaving. Content taking care of her father, a car mechanic who singlehandedly raised her after her mom skipped out, Jess is resigned to a safe, unremarkable existence...until Jasper Wilhelm, the town's eccentric benefactor, dies suddenly and leaves behind...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOEco, Umberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989
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Summary: In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOEco, Umberto.
Summary: The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Summary: Having ended her relationship with her violent husband, dog trainer and amateur detective Jo Beth Sidden finds herself on the trails of an escaped convict and an elderly woman who has wandered into the Okefenokee Swamp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLanier, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLanier, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANTidhar, Lavie
Summary: "For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021