Summary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Newcastle United's favorite player, Santiago Muñez, reaches superstardom and starts to live every footballer's dream when he is transferred to Real Madrid to play in the UEFA European Champions League. He gets to play alongside some of the greatest players, including David Beckham. As Santiago basks in the glory, acclaim and money, he discovers that success has an ugly face, one that threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOASummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESalley, Coleen.
Summary: Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup-garou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SALSalley, Coleen.
Summary: In this variation on the folktale, Sody Salyraytus, each of Epossumondas's birthday guests disappears until it is finally up to him to rescue them all and bring home the "sody" for his birthday biscuits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SALHalleen, Toni
Summary: When surrogate mother, Cally has a change of heart, engineering a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn, a whole series of doubts and secrets are revealed and it's no longer clear what's "right" and what's "wrong."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALBollen, Christopher
Summary: When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But the dead man's sister, Cate, doesn't believe Eric took his own life and is determined to get to the truth. Traveling to Egypt she begins to piece together her brother's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLWilcox, Collin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILColley, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLWilcox, Collin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBollen, Christopher
Summary: "Arriving on the Greek island of Patmos broke and humiliated, Ian Bledsoe is fleeing the emotional and financial fallout from his father's death. His childhood friend Charlie--rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the island--could be his last hope. At first Patmos appears to be a dream--long sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLPollen, Samuel
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Max records his efforts to control his anorexia in a therapist-prescribed journal that also chronicles his parents' difficult relationship and his feelings for a new girl at school, Evie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Jacket 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POLCollier, Bryan
Summary: After a tragedy a young boy discovers a connection between music and colors that helps guide him and gives him comfort in times of darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLPollen, Bella.
Summary: When a Cold War diplomat dies under suspicious circumstances and is promptly declared a mole, the man's wife relocates to a remote Scottish island, where her steadfast youngest child discovers a marooned grizzly bear and uncovers truths about his father's activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: "When Oona tries to help the Tooth Fairy, the most famous fairy of all time, her sideways magic ends up making things worse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KORColley, Barbara.
Summary: "In New Orleans' historic Garden District, life is all about attending the right parties, impressing the right people and making the right amount of money. It's an attitude fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte LaRue has never really understood."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLColley, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLParatore, Coleen Murtagh
Summary: As Dylan and his mother enjoy being together at the beach early on his fifth birthday, he cannot help but think about the baby his mother will soon have, who will join them in this special time next summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARCouch, Robbie
Summary: After his boyfriend Joey breaks up with him to pursue more "serious" guys, Blaine decides to run for senior class president as Joey's successor to prove his worth--but is Blaine willing to sacrifice everything about himself to do it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COUGooch, Chris
Summary: Jane is sick of her dead-end life in the suburbs and desperate for a change. Her old schoolmate Natalie made it out, working in Japan as a fashion model. Now, as Natalie comes back to town on business, Jane sees a way for her friend to do her a favor... whether she likes it or not.--Inner flap of front cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOOSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016