Summary: Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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3 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RIPShriver, Lionel
Summary: Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When her massively overweight brother, a once slim, hip New York Jazz pianist, comes for a visit, Pandora is forced to choose between her exercise fanatic husband and her brother, who desperately needs her support in losing weight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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Summary: From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the siblings last saw each other, the once slim, hip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Shriver, Lionel.
Summary: After the death of Mr. and Mrs. McCrea, their three children inherit a gorgeous mansion on the North Carolina coast. Corlis McCrea, the middle and only daughter, must devise a way to deceive her brothers and make the inheritance hers alone.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRShriver, Lionel
Summary: It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Lionel
Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Sent to a Portuguese backwater where a homegrown terrorist movement has recently emerged, foreign correspondent Edgar Kellogg hopes to make a name for himself, but soon discovers that things are not what they seem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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Summary: Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "Ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word ... These pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRHartsuyker, Linnea.
Summary: "The first installment in a debut trilogy, THE HALF-DROWNED KING tells the compelling story of the political intrigues, battles, and struggles for power that led to the rise of King Harald the Fair-Haired, first king of Norway, seen through the eyes of the young man who became his most trusted warrior and advisor. Conjuring a bloodthirsty, superstitious, and thrilling ancient world (9th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hartsuyker 2017Linney, Laura
Summary: Two adult children of an elderly, cantankerous man must come together to care for their father despite that fact they have not spoken to him or each other in years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVLitzenburger, Liesel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITLione, F. P.
Summary: Tony Cavalucci is a New York City police officer fighting for his life. The crime and corruption he sees on the job combined with a failing family life leave Tony feeling drained, lost, and frightfully alone, causing him to look for happiness in all the wrong places. Just when he is about to give up, Tony is partnered with Joe Fiore, another Italian-American cop who exudes the strength and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2005
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Litzenburger, Liesel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITSchwarz, Liesel.
Summary: Set during the Belle Époque in a Europe where mythological beings interact with modern scientists and aviators, spunky dirigible pilot Elle Chance and handsome warlock Marsh face off against a shadowy band of alchemists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHLionni, Leo
Summary: Four titles previously published independently, three of which were Caldecott honor books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Summary: Friendly mice discover the other animals who share their world and challenge readers to guess what they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDLionni, Leo
Summary: Mice discover such places as trees, boxes, shoes, and mouseholes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2014
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Summary: Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson is now king of Sogn, but fighting battles for King Harald keeps him away from home, as he confronts treachery and navigates a political landscape that grows more dangerous the higher he rises. Ragnvald's sister Svanhild has found the freedom and adventure she craves at the side of the rebel explorer Solvi Hunthiofsson, though not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLivney, Varda
Summary: "Uncle Max is coming to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the birthday of the world!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: BOARD LIVAdelson, Leone
Summary: When he awakens from hibernation, Little Bear's hunger leads him to a house where a Purim celebration is just beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004