Summary: Months after saying goodbye to sentient synth Mia and her family, the Hawkinses search for some semblance of normalcy. But when Niska arrives at their home unannounced, the family is pulled back into the dangerous lives of the synths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUMSummary: 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
Farrington, Susan
Summary: Describes the many different reasons and situations in which parents love their children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC FARFarrington, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARCarrington, Tori.
Summary: Sofie Metropolis longs for a return to investigating mundane missing pet cases, but her Christmas wish does not come true as she takes a kidnapping case that puts her life at risk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARFearrington, Ann.
Summary: In this cumulative rhyme, lighthouses from around the United States are observed by one sailor, two pilots, three gulls, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FearrWarrington, Freda
Summary: "A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, "The world needs to see this." The painting begins to change the lives of the woman who is the gallery's curator and that of an ancient man of the fey Aetherial folk who has mysteriously risen from the depths of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARTarkington, Booth
Summary: Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARWarrington, Freda
Summary: A young woman studying art at a vast country estate near the site where a child was snatched by fairies decades earlier stumbles onto the portal to the Otherworld through which a handsome, charming, and innocent young man emerges and captures her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC WAR AT #2Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARKing, Barrington.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINSummary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDHarington, Donald.
Summary: What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into the story of eight-year-old Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks, left to fend for herself on a remote, inaccessible mountain-top.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Toby Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARTarkington, Booth
Contents: pt. 1. Penrod.--pt. 2. Penrod and Sam.--pt. 3. Penrod Jashber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran & company, inc. 1931
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARTarkington, Ed
Summary: "When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: A child observes wild turkeys through the seasons. Includes facts about this classic American bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALMantell, Paul.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CHRSummary: Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDBagwell, Gillian.
Summary: Twelve years old when she enters the court of King Henry VII, where she is plunged into a world of politics and intrigue, Bess of Hardwick eventually discovers that, for a woman of substance, power and possibility are endless.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAGMarmell, Ari.
Summary: Working as a private detective, Fae Mick Oberon is hired to find a gangster's daughter sixteen years after she had been replaced by a changeling, and Mick encounters Fae politics and mob power struggles as he investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Marmell 2014Turnbull, Cadwell
Summary: An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURTurnbull, Cadwell
Summary: The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TURFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1993
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE FAL1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FAL
Markell, Denis
Summary: After discovering a ghost in his apartment, twelve-year-old Danny and his friends traverse Brooklyn's diverse neighborhood together to learn the spirit's origins and bring it to rest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARTarkington, Booth
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1922 offers a wry, realistic portrait of a middle-class, midwestern family dominated by a disgruntled woman who, with her precocious daughter Alice, fashions a series of outlandish schemes to climb the social ladder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997