Piven, Ḥanokh
Summary: A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PivSummary: On the run from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple battles vicious thugs who plan to continue the violent tradition of the now-outlawed Purge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DRISummary: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VALNiven, Larry.
Summary: Contains two novels, including "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring," in which the crew of the spaceship "Discipline" inexplicably abandons the craft for a life on the Smoke Ring, a gaseous envelope encircling a neutron star, where they and their descendants remain for five hundred years while the emotionless computer intelligence Kendy waits for them just outside the ring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: This book collects a dazzling assortment of Niven's most eclectic work into one captivating volume. Here are hand-selected excerpts from his novels as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, collaborations, and correspondence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: A tale set ten years after the events in "Juggler of Worlds" traces the reluctant efforts of the Puppeteers to counter onrushing alien refugees who are ransacking the planets they pass on their way toward the Fleet of Worlds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: In the 28th Century, a war breaks out on Ringworld, a conglomeration of nations and cultures occupying 600 million miles of space. The hero is Louis Wu, a 200-year-old human scientist attempting to mediate the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVAiken, Ginny.
Summary: "When socialite Emma Crowell stops the carriage on the way to Portland to 'exercise' her fussy poodle, she does not expect to become stranded in the woods in decidedly unsuitable attire. The pair of men who find her decide to take her back to their cave, where they've hidden sheep they rustled. When rancher Peter Lowery arrives, furious, to retrieve his property and discovers Emma, he does the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AIKPaver, Michelle
Summary: "It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing from a demon intent on devouring his souls, Wolf is swept out to Sea far from the Forest and his pack. The ocean too teems with danger: sea wolves, sharks and hunters of the deep, and the demon is gaining ground. Torak and Renn must race to save their pack-brother, battling the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAVBansch, Helga
Summary: "The animals are all asleep in their respective homes, until things get turned upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANNiven, Jennifer
Summary: "A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIVNiven, Jennifer.
Summary: "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NIVCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIVNiven, Larry
Summary: "Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: Presents a collection of twenty-seven short science fiction stories that were written over a period of thirty-five years, including Neutron Star, The Magic Goes Away and The Borderland of Sol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: When Louis Wu returns to Ringworld as a captive of the Hindmost, he discovers the world is no longer stable, and he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who first built the planet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Jennifer
Summary: Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW LIBBY STROUT, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Since her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for EVERY...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NIVNiven, Jennifer.
Summary: Velva Jean Hart sets out to pursue her dream of singing at the Grand Ole Opry, but when her brother pays her a surprise visit and treats her to a flying lesson, Velva finds a new dream--to become a female pilot.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds seek a way to survive among enemies and crises.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010