Summary: It's the holiday of Hogswatch in the parallel universe of Discworld, the night when kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather. But someone--or something-- wants the Hogfather out of the way. Now it's up to the most unlikely of heroes to get the holiday back on track before humanity loses all hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable march toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUILeonard, Peter (Peter A.)
Summary: When her teenage son, Luke, kills her husband in a tragic bow-hunting accident, Kate McCall suddenly becomes caught up in a dangerous confrontation with a gang of killers that includes Kate's old flame, an ex-con desperately trying to convince his formercolleagues that he lost the heist money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOPepper, David (David A.)
Summary: "A propulsive political thriller featuring two outsiders caught up in a stunning conspiracy, filled with details and twists that only a true political insider could write"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: Can someone heist the majority of the House of Representatives with no one noticing? That's the electoral coup that turns America upside down in The people's house...until one man notices. Youngstown reporter Jack Sharpe stumbles across an odd election result in the Ohio Congressional district he covers. The story takes him far beyond his corner of Ohio as he discovers an international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Helena Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEPSummary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLASummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAMeyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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Summary: Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio 2007
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction Meyer 2007Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEYSummary: Quiet high school student, Meg, takes care of her troubled little sister, Lily. Her emotionally unavailable mom is busy at work or school. Meg unleashes her frustrations and pain through her poems, which she shares with her supportive English teacher, Mr. Auster. She wins a regional poetry competition and makes it to the finals in Florida. Meg goes to Florida by herself, where she meets Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLUSummary: After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TEE RATED PG-13Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: FIC MeyerMeyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Summary: Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl . And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004
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Summary: Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUPDexter, Pete
Summary: The mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXBester, Alfred.
Summary: A collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: "Join Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this graphic novel that features a comic adaptation of the classic story Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, classic Schulz strips, previously published stories, and an all-new original story about Linus and his trusty blanket! From rainy days to learning new things and working as a team, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang have plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: Peter and his cousin Michael are drawn into the violence of the mob in Philadelphia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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Summary: In Florida, fame-hungry journalists reopen an investigation into the murder of a county sheriff. They fabricate false evidence and save the convicted man from being executed, for which they are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A look at what some people will do to gain fame. By the author of Paris Trout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995