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Kristeva, Julia

Summary: Julia Kristeva's dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir's 1954 masterpiece, The Samurai brilliantly reconstructs a pivotal era of postwar French history - Paris in the late 1960s - and at the same time records the political disillusionment and ferment of a generation. In a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1992

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRI

Summary: At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: A rambunctious group of five college friends steal away for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures in a night of endless terror and bloodshed. As the teens begin to exhibit standard horror movie behavior, a group of technicians in a control room are scrutinizing and sometimes even controlling every move the terrified kids...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2012

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CAB

Summary: Michelle Darnell a titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Bo

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Boss 2016

Summary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAM

Depken, Kristen L.

Summary: "Barbie can be a baby doctor. Cuddling, feeding, and taking care of babies is a lot of fun!"--P. [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

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Cortázar, Julio

Summary: "In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Summary: A nice guy with a questionable past, Charlie Bronson, risks everything when he busts out of a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for the job opportunity of a lifetime. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they're chased by an inept fed and Charlie's ex-pal, a vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HIT

Summary: The Ultra City Smiths story unfolds via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters. The series hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Ultra City's most famous magnate. Two intrepid detectives follow the case, rallying to fight against their city's dangerous corruption, at a high cost to themselves and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Zeh, Juli

Summary: A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists. Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, "Empty Hearts" is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZEH

Zeh, Juli

Summary: "An explosive thriller about two couples who are caught in a web of conflicting passions while deep-sea diving off the beautiful Canary Islands; Sven Fiedler is a young lawyer in Germany who decides he's had enough. No more competing with coworkers for his boss's attention, no more flaunting this or that new purchase to keep his friends impressed, no more endless workweeks under...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZEH

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Summary: After he is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down the latest bad guy to threaten humanity, Gru finds himself in the midst of a major identity crisis. But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a long-lost twin brother-a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin's despicable footsteps-one former super-villain will rediscover just how good...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited 2017

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD DES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DES RATED PG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD De

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DES

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Despicable 2017

Litten, Kristyna

Summary: Bertie the giraffe oversleeps and becomes separated from his herd, but a new friend helps him get home and gives him a new perspective in the process.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIT

Davis, Krista

Summary: "When a trendy, underground dinner club leaves some guests six-feet-under the table, entertaining professional and amateur sleuth Sophie Winston hopes she has all the right ingredients to put a murderer on ice in New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis's new Domestic Diva mystery" --amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DAV

Anta, Julio

Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANT

Torres, Julio

Summary: An ambitious toilet plunger expresses his desire to be a vase.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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McMorris, Kristina.

Summary: Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when he is interned at a war relocation camp.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCM

Riggle, Kristina.

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Summary: "Trish isn't perfect. She's divorced and raising two kids-so of course her house isn't pristine. But she's got all the important things right and she's convinced herself that she has it all under control. That is, until the day her youngest son gets hurt and Child Protective Services comes calling. It's at that moment when Trish is forced to consider the one thing she's always hoped wasn't...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RIG

Petersheim, Jolina.

Summary: Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content living apart from mainstream society until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel feels the wrath of the religious sect as she is shunned by those she loves most. She is eventually coerced into leaving by her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PET

Davis, Krista

Summary: "The ladies of the Wagtail Animal Guardians, WAG for short, are in town for a pet adoption charity ball, and Holly is making sure to roll out the red carpet for her special guests. She and her furry best friend Trixie are busy keeping the WAG ladies happy and preparing for the ball when they learn that a retired judge has lost his prized pup. The venerable citizen has hired a pet detective who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Davis 2021

Juliano, Jimmy

Summary: Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed. She's never heard of it before, but soon learns it's a tiny island off of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula, 200 miles from Willow's home. Why would her son write this on his floor? Determined to find answers, Willow sets out for the island. After a few days on Clifford,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUL

Belloni, Giulia.

Summary: A determined sheep and his practical wolf friend try their hand at building a flying machine together, but when their plans don't work like they wanted, they must find a new way to make their dreams come true.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Owl Kids 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEL

Jurjevics, Juris.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011

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Herbert, Julián

Summary: As he sits by his dying mother, a son immerses himself in his memories of his childhood and youth while he investigates the complex relationship with his mother, his own children and his country, Mexico.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

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