Summary: Human trafficking, a woman seized by cannibalistic urges, a serial killer with a crush, and a ghostly presence. A horror anthology of four tragic, interlocking, and intertwined stories that take place within one seemingly normal neighborhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Summary: A former Confederate soldier still haunted by his past, Cullen Bohannon made a home in Hell on Wheels hunting down the men responsible for killing his family. Following the Indian attack that destroyed the railroad settlement, Cullen spends a long winter reshaping his lust for revenge into a burning ambition, to take control of the Union Pacific and drive it across the country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HEL

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HEL

Keats, Israel

Summary: Teens Leo, James, and Sigrid are forced to use their instincts to locate their families after an alien invasion disables most electronics and their entire town is evacuated without them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEA

Israel, Laurie

Summary: Sofia loves the holiday season of Wassailia, but this year, she gets to celebrate Christmas for the first time ever! She can't wait to visit her good friend, Vivian, see a foreign kingdom, and experience all of the wonderful traditions of Christmas. But during her visit, two friendly sprites ask Sofia to help them find their lost friend. Can Sofia help?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ISR

Israel, Steve

Summary: "When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISR

Israel, Steve

Summary: Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn’t enjoy the news; he doesn’t like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants the world to leave him alone. Morris does not make waves. But one day Morris is seduced by a lonely, lovesick receptionist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Israel 2015

Runyon, Damon

Contents: Introduction -- Characters and craftsmen -- Memorable moments -- World series -- Black sox -- Spring training -- Around the world -- Musings and (mostly) ordinary games.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 GUY

Unita, Yumi

Summary: "As an impromptu dad to Rin, his late grandfather's illegitimate child, Daikichi Kawachi has experienced his share of firsts while caring for his little aunt (?). Now it's Daikichi's turn to battle the initial wave of separation anxiety as Rin leaves the nest-- for her first day of elementary school! Rin's elementary school isn't the only place with new faces, either. Daikichi's office is also...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUN

Miura, Shion

Summary: A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIU

Runyon, Damon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beech Tree Books 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Guion, Melissa

Summary: A mother penguin stays very busy taking care of her many babies and teaching them important lessons about such things as sliding, waddling, preening--and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015

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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD GUI

Sinclair, Upton

Summary: The author's famous tale of a Lithuanian family who emigrates to America and is destroyed by exploitation, crushing poverty, and economic despair.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIN

Unita, Yumi

Summary: As Rin experiences the ups and downs of being a teenager, she begins to ponder what it means to be family. In her exploration of that question, she takes it upon herself to track down Masako, her birth mother. Masako, now engaged and pregnant, is about to start a new family of her own. But with Masako's feelings of guilt over her treatment of Rin, she can't bring herself to tell Daikichi of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUN

Zunon, Elizabeth

Summary: As a little girl and her father work together to make her birthday cake, he tells the story of her Grandpa Cacao, a farmer from the Ivory Coast. Includes author's note and a cake recipe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019

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Runton, Andy

Summary: Owly, a kind, lonely owl, and his friend Wormy find they have to make sacrifices in order to help a family of birds have a safe winter home, and they make some new friends in the process, in this almost wordless book. 

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf 2005

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Owly Runton 2005

Tynion, James

Summary: "It's been over a year since the students, teachers, and additional staff of Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin were suddenly transported countless light years away to the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Despite the chaos of their first year, the students have begun to build a life in this new world, a burgeoning society out of the ruins of their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 WOO

Upson, Nicola

Summary: Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic note. The image leads Archie to Cambridge, where the crisp autumn air has brought bustling life to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPS

Upson, Nicola.

Summary: Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride. Tey quickly finds herself plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any of those in her own works - and Detective Inspector Archie Penrose is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEL

Summary: A collection of plays by Chekhov originally produced for television by the BBC.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANT

Unita, Yumi

Summary: "As Daikichi continues to juggle work with raising a teenager, Rin struggles with the relationship between her and Kouki, her childhood friend. The last ten years have brought about a variety of changes to their friendship-- some subtle, some not so. Kouki may always have been head over heels for Rin, but the choices he's made in the past seem to have put a wedge between them. And when a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUN