Koestler, Arthur
Summary: Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOEArthurs, Alexia
Summary: Presents a collection of stories set in Jamaica, New York City, and a Midwestern university, where multicultural main characters and their families navigate evolving senses of race, racism, family, and tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARTKiester, Alex
Summary: "From the moment Ben and June met in a hospital waiting room on New Year's Eve, their love has seemed fated. Looking back at all the tiny, unlikely decisions that brought them together, it was easy to believe their relationship was special. But now, after several years of marriage, June is struggling as a new mom. At times, she wonders about the life she didn't choose -- what might have been if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEKistler, Bonnie
Summary: Two women--co-workers at an international fashion conglomerate--enter an elevator to take them down from the thirtieth floor, but only one woman is alive when the doors open in the lobby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISSummary: When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MemoryMcArthur, Adam
Summary: LankyBox duo Adam and Justin and their friends Foxy, Boxy, and Rocky love hanging out and playing games together. But when Justin gets hungry and decides to order donuts, he and Adam wind up kidnapped! An evil hacker has nabbed Adam and Justin, and he wants them to teach him the secret to online superstardom. If they can't, he's going to wipe out all the content in the world that's more popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley 2023
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Summary: "Follows a little girl from dawn to dusk as she draws rangolis to welcome guests, cooks puris and chana masala, dresses up in beautiful colors, participates in the puja, and lights the diyas in honor of Diwali: the Hindu festival of lights"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MATMathur, Sanyukta
Summary: Getting ready for Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, young Nikhil is nervous about the festivities until his family comes up with a silly solution for him to celebrate the messy colors of spring with everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MATArmour, Peter.
Summary: A pickle tries to escape being eaten by fleeing through the city streets, pursued by a variety of other food items.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993
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Summary: The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript had never been found? Where would it be located? Two mathematicians, one American, one British, set out, unbeknownst to each other, to find the missing manuscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANOstler, Scott
Summary: Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Linford 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W ARMSummary: World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARTKester, Eric
Summary: When star quarterback Brett suffers a terrible concussion, his brother Wyatt must decide if keeping his brother's secret is worth the risk to their relationship and their town's economic future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KESKotler, Steven
Summary: Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company. A unique blend of cutting-edge technology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOTKoehler, Lora
Summary: On the Mighty Mountain Road Crew, the trucks come in one size: BIG. That is, until the little snowplow joins the crew. None of the other trucks think that the little snowplow can handle the big storms, but he knows that he can do it--and just to be sure, he trains hard, pushing loads of gravel, pulling blocks of concrete, and doing plow lifts to get ready. But when a blizzard arrives, will the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOEKistler, Bonnie MacDougal
Summary: Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some precious moments of alone time and leave Pete’s son Kip, a high school senior, in charge of Leigh’s fourteen-year-old daughter Chrissy at their home. Driving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISKoehler, Fred
Summary: "A young elephant sees his dad is in a bad mood and tries to cheer him up, not realizing his own mischief caused the bad mood in the first place"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOEKunstler, James Howard.
Summary: "Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2014
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Summary: "In this Irish folktale, a young and powerful king has an embarrassing secret: he has horse's ears! Then one day, the royal barber discovers this unusual trait. Can he keep the king's long-held secret, or will the barber be banished from the kingdom for good?"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KOS (Graphic Novel)Koster, Gloria
Summary: "I am going to eat you up! With jars full of sour cream and applesauce in her basket, Little Red Ruthie is on her way to Bubbe Basha's house to make latkes for Hanukkah! But along the path she meets a scary wolf who wants to eat her. Can Ruthie use her wits and powers of persuasion to convince the wolf that latkes will taste better than she will? This clever spin on the classic LIttle Red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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Summary: The little snowplow loves his job plowing snow for the Mighty Mountain Road Crew, but as the weeks of winter pass without a snowflake, the little snowplow begins to wonder if it will snow at all before his March birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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Summary: Two children have been found dead, their souls torn from their bodies. Two more are missing, and Ethan Morgan's niece is one of them. A dedicated cop, Ethan has every intention not only of bringing her back alive but of catching the monster behind these kidnappings. And he will use anyone and everyone to achieve those aims, even a crazy woman who claims to be a witch. But time is ticking. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ART C#3Arthur, Keri.
Summary: Half-vampire, half-werewolf Riley Jenson must use all the dhampire powers at her command as she tracks two vicious serial killers--one who targets high-society strumpets and their lovers, and the other who selects victims with tragic pasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008