Jodorowsky, Axel
Summary: A young man who was traumatized as a child by his family of circus performers escapes the mental hospital he is in to rejoin his armless mother and, with the son becoming his mother's arms, the two go on a murderous campaign of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SANLewis, Axel
Summary: For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWLewis, Axel
Summary: Jimmy Roberts and his robot, Maverick, are ready for the next stage of the robot races which will go through the Amazon rain forest, but his enemy Horace Pelly is equally determined to win--and he does not care how he does it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWMaisy, Axel
Summary: "Tim and Tito are best friends whose world gets upended when a time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar suddenly appears in Tim's backyard. That's right, a time-traveling T-Rex, who knows too much for his or Tim and Tito's good. Sure, Oskar's prehistoric spaceship is awesome. But when Tim mistakenly gulps down something called Impossible Juice, the boys find themselves not only battling a loony,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MAILewis, Axel
Summary: This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWAbel, Jessica.
Summary: Carla Olivares, a young Mexican-American woman, goes to Mexico to "find herself," and moves in which an old fling, but when his circle of Anglo expat friends fail to provide her with the authentic experience she seeks, Carla becomes involved with el Gordo, a drug don who takes her down a dangerous path. Presented in graphic novel form.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ABEAbel, Kenneth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ABEKaram, Adel
Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSSummary: It was the landmark cult film that began the Midnight Movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy '70s. Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and cosmic mystic El Topo must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on an ever-increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. With new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOPAbel, James
Summary: "When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Abel 2015Abel, Kenneth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEAbel, Kenneth.
Summary: A small town in St. Tammany's Parish, just north of New Orleans, is home to a slave burying ground, so long forgotten that it doesn't appear on any maps. When a group of white teenagers appropriate 'the burying field' for after-hours drinking, racial tensions in the area begin to rise. One night the drunken party turns violent, and the town explodes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEAbel, Heather
Summary: "This novel about a utopian camp and its charismatic leader takes us into the lives of five unforgettable characters, and is a sweeping saga of idealism, love, class, and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEAbel, Kenneth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ABESummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRWest, Catherine Adel
Summary: Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESAuel, Jean M.
Summary: An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni--one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: As Ayla and Jondalar travel across Ice Age Europe they encounter savage enemies and brave friends in their search for a place they can call home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUESund, Erik Axl
Summary: "Two women--a police detective and a psychotherapist--are faced with the question: how much suffering can one human being inflict upon another before he ceases to be human and becomes a monster?" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNAmal (Amal Karzai)
Summary: "When two ordinary objects land on a city sidewalk, a little girl's dull day becomes an odyssey of new places and unusual faces. Led far away on a dragon boat, she makes use of her found objects to get past the locked library doors, where erudite elephants open her eyes to the beauty of books and faraway lands. Faced with fantastic animals and discoveries, has she found the secret to make dull...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AMAAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla is training to become a Zelandoni, one of the community's spiritual leaders and healers. She becomes the acolyte to the Zelandoni for the Ninth Cave and begins the series of intensive journeys that are part of the sacred training. But as she struggles to find a balance between her calling and her duties as a new mother, her pursuits begin to take a toll on her relationship with Jondalar.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011