Summary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARBorges, Jorge Luis
Summary: The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 A Universal History of Iniquity, a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic August 25, 1983 in which Borges meets himself as an old man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta-Agostini 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC BORBorges, Jorge Luis
Summary: Translation of El libro de arena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BORForde, Patricia
Summary: Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORForte, Lauren
Summary: When the Chipmunks find a baby bird that's fallen from its nest, Alvin and the bird create an unlikely friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FORMarabell, Peter.
Summary: Michael Russo’s friend and mentor, Frank Marshall, is the target of an assassination attempt one damp autumn night in Petoskey. The case goes cold fast. The police have no suspects and no leads, so Russo begins his own investigation. It is quickly apparent that the attack was not a random shooting but a professional hit. Russo vows to hold those involved accountable by whatever means necessary....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kendall Sheepman Company 2015
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Summary: "Bob and the team have a job to do at the new space-themed restaurant. There may be an alien loose in Spring City"--Page 4 of ocver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORForte, Lauren
Summary: Fed up with how dependent the Chipmunks have become on technology, Dave takes them camping for a weekend with no electricity, cell phones, or Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FORMirabella, Richard
Summary: Willa grudgingly takes in her brother, Justin, who is spiraling out of control, unable to manage his sobriety and the ongoing effects of a brain injury suffered when he fled a terrifying act of violence committed by his first boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRMirabella, Angelina.
Summary: It's 1953 and seventeen-year-old Leonie Putzkammer is cartoonishly tall and curvaceous, destined to spend the rest of her life waiting tables and living with her widowed father, Franz, in their Philadelphia row house. Until the day legendary wrestling promoter Salvatore Costantini walks into the local diner and offers her the chance of a lifetime. Leonie sets off for Florida to train at Joe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRSummary: Takes a look at the male ego and the art of manipulating women. Roger, a sharp-witted Manhattan advertising copywriter can talk his way into any skirt, which is exactly why his nephew, Nick, pays him a visit. With Nick's virginity at stake, Roger takes him out for a one-night crash course in seduction, only to realize he still has something to learn about women himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROGMarabell, Peter.
Summary: A showdown with the Mob on Mackinac Island. It’s summer in Northern Michigan. A wealthy and influential aristocrat is found dead at the secluded and private Cherokee Point Resort Association, north of Harbor Springs. Fearful of outside intrusion, Point members stonewall the investigation. The cops ask Petoskey lawyer Michael Russo for his help, and Russo agrees to speed the investigation along....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kendall Sheepman Company
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarabellForte, Lauren
Summary: When her favorite book is returned to the library instead of renewed, Olivia painstakingly combs the library's shelves in the hope of reclaiming the book before someone else checks it out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORForte, Lauren
Summary: The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Olivia is inspired to save her memories in a time capsule. She is also determined to find the time capsule that Grandma made when she was a little girl. After all, she needs to get ideas about what to put in her own! What will Olivia want to remember when she's all grown up?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE OLISummary: "Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFForgey, William W.
Summary: A collection of stories about ghosts and other supernatural encounters, selected for their ease in being told from memory. Each story is accompanied by a large print outline for assistance in telling the story by firelight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ICS Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORAmado, Jorge
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMACham, Jorge
Summary: "Oliver has a lot going on starting his first year of middle school--new friends, new classes, new everything. But at least there's one thing that still makes sense: science! Determined to be an astrophysicist one day, Oliver explains everything he learns--like how the sun burps, how ghost particles fly through you, the uncanny similarities between Mercury and cafeteria meatballs, and most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAIsabella, Tony
Summary: Savor every issue, every highlight, every page as the lives of these Marvel icons play out together! Their struggles will reveal the origin of the man who created the Black Widow, pit them against the combined might of Magneto and Doctor Doom, unleash the Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man on Los Angeles, and team them with the Stranger in the fight for an Infinity Gem. Featured some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHASummary: In New York City in the 1930s, a powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc LLC 2005