Summary: English scientist Professor Willingdon runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister, he threatens to blow up the center of London if the government doesn₂t stop stockpiling nuclear warheads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her...
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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 BRESummary: The heart-warming true story about an eccentric chicken farmer who, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog to protect a wild penguin sanctuary from fox attacks and in the process tries to reunite his family and save their seaside town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ODDChari, Sheela
Summary: Returning to Earth after escaping the Martian colony, Mars Patel and his friends, along with genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt, discover that all the adults have mysteriously vanished and, as tensions rise and new mysteries are revealed, must somehow discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAMonahan, Brent
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONChari, Sheela
Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONChari, Sheela
Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CHALanagan, Margo.
Summary: Ten fantasy stories to tease and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan. Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice. 'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power that will reward adult as well as teenage readers.' Adelaide Advertiser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 2006
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Maughan, Tim
Summary: A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet. BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, its become a center of creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUHanrahan, Gareth
Summary: "Many years ago, Sir Aelfric and his nine companions saved the world, seizing the Dark Lord's cursed weapons, along with his dread city of Necrad. That was the easy part. Now, when Aelfric - keeper of the cursed sword Spellbreaker - learns of a new and terrifying threat, he seeks the nine heroes once again. But they are wandering adventurers no longer. Yesterday's eager heroes are today's weary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANLanagan, Margo.
Summary: On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2012
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Canavan, Trudi.
Summary: When schools teaching magic are banned, Tyen, a teacher of mechanical magic, is left with no home or purpose and must decide how far he is willing to go to free a sorcerer imprisoned in a book, while Rielle's peaceful new life is shattered by a local war that leads to an extraordinary offer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit, Hachette Book Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCarnahan, Matthew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARMcCahan, Erin
Summary: "The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCMinahan, John A.
Summary: During the War of 1812, when British soldiers threaten the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, young Rebecca Bates and her sister Abigail, daughters of the local lighthouse keeper, find a way to save both him and the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pippin Press 1995
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MINMahajan, Karan
Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGWilliams, Sheila (Sheila J.)
Summary: Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCanavan, Trudi
Summary: Five years have passed since the Rebels confronted the Raen. Five years, in which the boy Rielle rescued, Qall, has safely grown up among the Travellers. Five years, in which Tyen has made a new home for himself, hidden from those who call him a traitor and the Spy.Five years of chaos in the world, barely contained by Baluka and the Restorers. Worlds are at war, some overrun by machines, some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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Summary: In the near future, Africa collapses into an enormous failed state, leaving the continent lawless and severely depopulated. For most, the breakdown brings horror, but for others--the outcast, the desperate, the criminals, and the insane--it allows unparalleled opportunity: a new frontier of danger and unlimited possibility. In America, ex-Navy SEAL Slade Crawford, emotionally crippled after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANRudolph, Shaina.
Summary: Zane rushes home to tell his mother about problems he faced during his school day, and she reminds him that while others may only see his "autism stripe," he has stripes for honesty, caring, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, American Psychological Association 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RUDMangan, Anne
Summary: The Easter Bunny needs help delivering the Easter eggs this year and who better to help him than some Australian animals?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MANAgarwal, Shilpa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2009