Summary: "Losing Ground tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand 'ecstasy' just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOSSummary: Brian is a lonely and unlucky inventor who takes on his most ambitious project yet, an artificial intelligence robot made from odds and ends, including an old washing machine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BRIMaynard, Joyce
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning--and the true price--of friendship. Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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Summary: Thirty years after destroying her detective father's career and altering the lives of everyone she loves, Rachel, who has never given up hope of vindicating her father, finally finds The Sunset Strangler, a killer who, in the summer of 1979, preyed on young women in northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret."--back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Maynard 2013Maynard, Joyce
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Publisher / Publication Date: iUniverse 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYSummary: Trinh is a mercenary assigned to recover a stolen hard drive containing codes to Vietnam`s first satellite, the VINASAT.1. She creates an ensemble of specialists to regain control of the hard drive before it is sold to the Chinese Triad. Lies and betrayal unfold as Trinh uncovers the truth behind her squad. Who can she trust?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Chanh Phuong Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CLADuane, Diane.
Summary: While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other—he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Duane, Diane.
Summary: While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUAMaynard, Frances
Summary: "Elvira Carr believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. She lives at home with her overbearing mother, who has deemed her unfit to interact with the rest of society. But when her mother has a stroke, Ellie is suddenly forced to look after herself. She quickly comes up with an ingenious way of coping with the world: the seven social rules spreadsheet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYMaynard, Joyce
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Carpet Books Harcourt, Inc. 2001
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Summary: Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recenlty become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure—her Ordeal—Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Duane, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Byron Preiss Multimedia Co. 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
Summary: Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to befall the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon, the young wizards find themselves forced to defend wizards and nonwizards alike against an invasion of a kind they've never imagined....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007
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Maynard, Joyce
Summary: After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2023
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Summary: After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam are now raising three children on a New Hampshire farm: summer softball games, Labor Day cookouts, snow days and skating on the pond. When a tragic accident permanently injures the youngest child, Eleanor blames Cam. Her inability to forgive him leads to a devastating betrayal and the end of their marriage. Over the decades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MaynardMaynard, Joyce
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYDuane, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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Summary: Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard. I don't belive this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Duane, Diane.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1994
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Summary: To give Nita a vacation from magic, her parents pack her off for a stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Nita soon finds herself with a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2005