Summary: Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominate film delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VERSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIHerrin, Lamar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERTerrin, Peter
Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world, security guards Harry and Michel, living in the basement of a luxury apartment building, are charged with protecting its wealthy residents. Over the course of one weekend, all the residents leave-- except for one man on the 29th floor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERKerin, Liz
Summary: "I'm always careful not to disturb mom. A rude awakening can definitely set her off, especially if she wakes up hungry. I can't forget what she is. What she could do to me." Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: tell no one of Izzy's hunger - the one only blood can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERKerin, Liz
Summary: Haunted by her mother's blood-thirsty past, Mia hunts the man who sparked it, infiltrating a secret network of fugitive monsters and finding herself snared in a web of unsettling truths, in the sequel to Night's Edge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KERPerrin, Clotilde
Summary: Starting from the Greenwich meridian this book takes the reader east imagining what children are doing at that moment in each of the twenty-four time zones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 529.2 PERKerrin, Jessica Scott
Summary: When his dad builds him a tree fort, Russell thinks it is perfect--right up until he notices another tree fort going up three houses over.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KERHayes, Kerrie
Summary: Three very different sisters find ways to support their family in 1920's Britain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LILMitchard, Jacquelyn.
Summary: Losing her father in a school fire that disfigures her face, Sicily is raised by a dynamic aunt who urges her to pursue a normal life, an effort that is influenced by her fiancé, a terrible drunken revelation and an opportunity for a risky full-face transplant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MITMitchard, Jacquelyn.
Summary: Gordon McKenna's only sister Georgia and her husband are killed in a car accident, "leaving behind their baby daughter, Keefer. Gordon and his parents are able to survive their sorrow only by devoting themselves heart and soul to the care of the beloved one-year-old."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITSummary: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TANMitchard, Jacquelyn.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Hope describes events leading her to agree to her boyfriend's plan to stage her abduction, and the consequences for their relationship, her family life, and her budding career as an actress.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MithcSummary: "In Joker Moon, the next Wild Cards adventure from series editor George R. R. Martin, we follow Aarti, the Moon Maid, who can astrally project herself onto the surface of the moon and paint projections across the lunarscape. Theodorus was a dreamer. As a child, he dreamt of airplanes, rockets, and outer space. When the wild card virus touched him and transformed him into a monstrous snail...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOKManiscalco, Kerri
Summary: "Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy ManiscalcoMurrin, Alan
Summary: "A poignant debut novel about the lives of women, set in a claustrophobic coast town. How can they find independence in a society that seeks to limit it?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GETPerrin, Kristen
Summary: "A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERKerrigan, Gene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERLeer, Korrie
Summary: To escape the nonstop, loud crying of her new baby brother Cassie climbs into an empty box to drive, sail, and soar until she finally finds quiet--and loneliness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEETodd, Terrie
Summary: In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, twelve-year-old Irish immigrant Bridget O'Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages. Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor Harrison, the waifish yet fiery redhead vows to run away and never return. Just a few short years later, run she does, fleeing the unspeakable...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017