Summary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISErman, Matthew
Summary: A man, a woman--and their parasites. Marcus has been alone since the loss of his closest friend and has just recently entered the dating scene, while Laura has drifted in and out of relationships since high school. They meet and strike up a good rapport, learning about each other, friendship, and how to deal with the slug-like parasites that have infected humanity. Bonding is a funny, quirky,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vault Comics 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ERMGollub, Matthew.
Summary: Seeking directions to town, a fly picks up the rhythm of the answers he gets from a frog, a hog, a donkey and a dog, and then uses these sounds to jazz up his band's music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tortuga Press 2000
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE JAZZSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1976
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Summary: "A modern, Wild West road trip about a witch named Yonna cruising the Southwest as a band of bloodthirsty biker vampires, The Hounds of Love, hunt her scattered coven for the source of all magic: witch blood. From the critically acclaimed creators of The Modern Witch Tarot Deck and Long Lost comes Witchblood: The Hounds of Love, a blend of action, lore, and Americana--perfect for fans of Buffy:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vault 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ERMHarman, Patricia
Summary: Though the Great Depression is behind the them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war. It is only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. In the town of Hope River, midwife Patience Hester's husband, Daniel has vowed never to take up arms again; he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War. When he is imprisoned for his beliefs, Patience and their four children are left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harman 2018Lerman, Eleanor
Summary: There are two themes to Radiomen. First, if there are aliens interacting with our world they are likely just as confused about who or what God is as human beings are; and second, whoever they are, they're probably just as fond of dogs as we are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The PermanenT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERHesse, Hermann
Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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Summary: Dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent, led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian, into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood. mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC HESHesse, Hermann
Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESHarman, Patricia
Summary: The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARCorman, Leela
Summary: "One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2024
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.5 CORDearman, Lara
Summary: "The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility--but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger. When bones are discovered on Derrible Bay and an elderly resident is violently murdered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEADedman, Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEDHuberman, Amy
Summary: After discovering that her fiancé has been cheating on her with a colleague, Tara sets up her own legal practice specializing in family and divorce law.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STRMolloy, Aimee
Summary: They call themselves the May Mothers--a collection of new moms who gave birth in the same month. When they agree to meet up for drinks and some much-needed adult time, one of the babies goes missing. Now the police are asking disturbing questions and testing friendships.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOLHarman, Patricia
Summary: Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most in need--and least likely to pay. She knows a successful midwifery practice must be built on a foundation of openness and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Summary: "A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CORHertmans, Stefan
Summary: "In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERBorman, Tracy
Summary: "At the end of The King's Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman's Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil's Slave, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft. Catholics have gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BORHerriman, Nancy
Summary: Herbalist and widow Bess Ellyott tries to escape the loss of her husband in Elizabethan London only to find that death is following her, and she may very well be next in Searcher of the Dead, the first in a new historical mystery series by Nancy Herriman. Living amid the cultural flowering, religious strife, and political storms of Tudor England, Bess Ellyott is an herbalist, a widow, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerrin, Lamar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004