Tomasi, Peter
Summary: "Batman and Robin Vol. 5 collects the DC Comics--The New 52 origin of Two-Face and Carrie Kelley! The origin of Two-Face begins as Batman finds himself in the crossfire of a vengeful war between Two-Face and Erin McKillen! Both are hell bent on killing each other and anyone else who dares to step between them. And what are the mysterious connections between Harvey Dent's life and the origin of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATTomasi, Peter.
Summary: It's the prelude to "The Blackest Night" as the "War of Light" continues to intensify! Mongul attempts to establish his hold on the Sinestro Corps by enslaving the planet Daxam and making it the home world of his Corps. What does Sinestro's right hand man, Arkillo, think of all this? And will Sodam Yat, the Green Lantern known as Ion, fight to save his homeworld, which he's vowed to never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2009
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC TOMPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Peter Quill, son of the king of Spartax, leads the Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of intergalactic heroes set on protecting the universe from the evil Badoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Join Thor, the Warriors Three, and Lady Sif as they render order across the cosmos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMPalacios, Tomas
Summary: No single hero can defeat the evil trickster, Loki -- but with six of Earth's mightiest heroes combined, they stand a chance! Find out how Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the Hulk all first met and what forces them to band together to form the Avengers!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Moniz, Tomas
Summary: "Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole--a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender--is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acre 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Introduces the origin story of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIMartínez, Tomás Eloy.
Summary: Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBanks, Kate
Summary: Afraid to swim across the river because of the hippopotamus there, a turtle takes inspiration from other animals in trying other ways to get across. Features rebuses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC BanksSummary: A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COLBarr-Toman, Susan.
Summary: Part chick lit, part Perry Mason, part tearjerker, part laugh-out-loud comedy, this is not the typical coming-of-age novel. Lucy, brought up Catholic in South Philly, mercy kills her mother, discovers sex, and learns about herself and her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Rivers Press 2009
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Summary: After pulling off a bank robbery in series one, series two sees Jenny and Cecilia tackle another classic heist: art theft. Where banks were the target in series one, their focus has now shifted to the rich tax-evading men earning big money at the taxpayers' expense. This is Kalmar, Sweden's local aristocracy, who play bridge at the gentlemen's club and only watch out for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIMVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROSummary: Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists -- geniuses in the laboratory but socially-challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten married. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Big 2018Johns, Geoff
Summary: Twelve superheroes brought back to life by White Lantern rings must come to terms with the horrors they committed as Black Lanterns and discover why they have been resurrected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Deadman continues to do the bidding of the White Lantern Entity, while Martian manhunter, Aquaman, Aqualad, Firestorm, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl face their own personal trials in order to understand the meaning of their ressurection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef who wants his cooking to bring people together, but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn't end in a fight. Ditching his traditional summer camp, Abe begins working with Chico, an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines. However, when Abe's deceit is uncovered, he must grapple with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breaking Glass Pictures 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABESummary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGSummary: Kirito and his friends go on a mission to seek out the legendary Holy Sword "Excalibur!" News spreads among the players that the sword has been discovered inside ALO. This was actually the very sword that Kirito and Leafa found in the underground realm of Jotunheim several months ago when they saved "Tonky." Summoning Asuna, Klein, Sinon and the others, they set off for the dungeon in Jotunheim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOFavino, Pierfrancesco
Summary: Dramatized portrayal of the life of Tommaso Buscetta, a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became an informer in the 1980s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRASummary: Prepare to enter phase nine of television's perpetual laughter experiment as the show successfully fuses the elements of science and sitcom. Our two genius roommates, Leonard and Sheldon, and their friends are back once again (smarter, but no wiser). Last season, Sheldon went soul-searching (on a train, of course) and was prepared to make some substantial revisions on his Relationship Agreement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Big 2016Summary: The elite team of Major Crimes is back for its sixth season with three of the most challenging cases yet, struggling to solve mysteries mired in complex political conflicts that move beyond traditional murder cases. As Sharon Raydor grows accustomed to her new boss, Assistant Chief Leo Mason, the detectives find themselves questioning their faith in the rapidly changing priorities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018