Summary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie's fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which is unwittingly marching towards Revolution, and Jamie must now defend the home they have built together at Fraser's Ridge while Claire seeks to put her own skills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Outlander 2020Summary: Season Four continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser as they try to make a home for themselves in colonial America. The Frasers in North Carolina are at another turning point in history, the edge of the American Revolution. Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will haunt the family. Meanwhile, Brianna and Roger grow closer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Outlander 2019Summary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Stevenson, Robert Louis
Summary: A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPMacFarlane, Seth
Summary: Pays homage to the traditional Western with a modern comic spin, following a cowardly farmer who seeks the help of a gunslinger's wife to win back the woman who left him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.MacFarlane, Seth
Summary: A Million Ways to Die in the West pays homage to the traditional Western with a modern comic spin, following a cowardly farmer who seeks the help of a gunslinger's wife to win back the woman who left him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books of Tape 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Rotert, Rebecca
Summary: "A highly ambitious and stylish literary debut set against the 1960's Chicago jazz scene about a talented but troubled singer's heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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Summary: When fate brings fourteen-year-old Leven and thirteen-year-old Winter together, they discover that for mankind to continue dreaming, the gateway between reality and dreams needs to be found and demolished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKYMcFarlane, Ailsa
Summary: "Highway Blue tells the story of Anne-Marie and Cal: the story of their brief marriage, and also of their long estrangement. And when a violent ambush hurls the two of them cross-country on the road, it becomes the story of their search for salvation. On their ill-at-ease odyssey along the darker seams of the country--from sweaty motel rooms and darkened parking lots, encountering other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFSummary: Seven-part limited series about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. It focuses on the past decade which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party's de facto leader, and the sexual harassment accusations that brought his career to an end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: When Perry is invited back to Bunny Island for its first-ever Carrot Con, he's beyond happy to have the chance to reconnect with his favorite uncle, Zeke, and his friends, Juliet and Rain. After stopping Mayor Lapin and his dastardly plan to turn everyone into rabbits, Perry is psyched just to have a normal visit. But then freak microstorms pop up all over the island, ruining his fun before its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SKYSkye, Obert.
Summary: "The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between Chewbacca from Star Wars and Harry Potter. Rob names him "Potterwookiee" ("Hairy" for short) and soon Rob finds himself treading water as he tries to figure out how to care for his mixed-up friend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SKYMcFarlane, Fiona
Summary: "The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "You always remember your first love... don't you? If there's anything worse than being fired from the worst restaurant in town, it's coming home early to find your boyfriend in bed with someone else. Reeling from the humiliation of a double dumping in one day, Georgina takes the next job that comes her way--bartender in a newly opened pub. There's only one problem: it's run by the guy she fell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFMcFarlane, Sheryl
Summary: "We all love rain--until we are ready for some sun! This joyful ode to rain for kids 2 to 6 explores a child's many emotions when it comes to wet weather. In this charming picture book, a young child's conversation with the rain poetically captures the ever-shifting feelings we have when it comes to drizzles and downpours. She thanks the rain for helping the strawberries and carrot seeds to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCFProbert, Tim
Summary: After a battle that nearly cost them their lives, Bea and Cad awaken in the hidden settlement of the Arsai, mysterious creatures who can glimpse into the future. The Arsai's vision paints a dire picture for their planet, as the bird Kest Ke Belenus--now awoken from a restless slumber--threatens to destroy all the Lights of Irpa. Desperate for a solution, Bea and Cad seek out the help of a water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the wake of season one's climatic wave, the residents of the town adjust to the new order of life and the repercussions of the horde's appearance. Season two picks up after six months have gone by since the returned left with Simon, Camille and her mother, and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Things are going pretty well for Rob Burnside until Pinocula--a cross between Pinocchio and a vampire--emerges from his closet, lying, joking, and doing his best to drive Rob crazy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2013
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Summary: Principal Smelt has created the Fun-ger Games for Softrock Middle School's students, and Rob Burnside, his life in ruins, hopes that Katfish, a cross between Katniss and the Little Mermaid created in Rob's closet, will help with game tips, advice about girls, and how to get people to stop hating him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Rob has stuffed his closet with old laboratory experiments, unread books, and more, and when a creature emerges from that chaos causing a great deal of trouble, Rob has to do such horrible things as visit a library and speak at a school assembly to set things right again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011