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Afghan War, 2001- Commando operations Drama Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Jewish women Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Mother-daughter relationship Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Orphans Fiction Poland Fiction Special operations (Military science) Afghanistan Drama Taliban DramaRichler, Mordecai
Summary: Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own memoirs. Charged with comic energy and a wicked disregard for any pieties whatsoever,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICRichler, Emma
Summary: "Zachariah and Rachel Wolff are brother and sister. Well, not exactly. They are star-crossed lovers. Well, not exactly. Rachel is the cherished daughter born to a Russian family living in London, and Zachariah is her parents' adopted son, who arrived from the orphanage with one sweater, a head of rambunctious curls, and a dexterous set of fists, or fives, as he likes to call them. As children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSummary: The Complete First Season ignites a firestorm of suspense cloaked in the haze of a noir-inspired slow burn. Haunted by a tragedy that broke her world apart, Jessica Jones settles in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and opens her own detective agency, called Alias Investigations, with the hope of rebuilding her life and keeping the lights on in her apartment. She discovers that the source of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JESRichler, Nancy
Summary: In post-war Montreal, a young enigmatic woman arrives to meet her betrothed only to be turned down by him. She marries his brother instead and their quiet life together is shattered when it becomes apparent she has stolen another's identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSummary: The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12Summary: A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Facing 2006Richter, Conrad
Summary: John Butler, son of a wealthy colonial family, is captured by Delaware Indians and reared as the son of the tribal leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RICRichter, Conrad
Summary: The Luckett family, pioneers from Pennsylvania, face the hardships and unknown perils of America's forest wilderness during their journey westward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LG Premiere 2016
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLORichter, Conrad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICRichtel, Matt.
Summary: A late-night accident on a San Francisco subway platform has altered Nat Idle's reality. But then, there are no accidents. Disoriented and bloodied after a near-deadly fall onto the subway tracks, freelance journalist Nat Idle discovers that a beautiful stranger has come to his aid . . . and that the burly man who barreled into him had intended to do Nat harm. What he doesn't know is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Langdon, Lorie
Summary: "Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can't seem to escape her past ... or forget the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Langdon 2018Scarfarotti, Lorie
Summary: "Over the course of a week, thirteen-year-old track & field runner, Josie Tomaselli, confronts multiple challenges with humour, confusion, fear, "lady balls," and the support of her pre-race music playlist. As the big race approaches she's missing the support of her father, who is dying of cancer. While at first she refuses to acknowledge the possibility of losing him, in the end she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCACore, Leopoldine
Summary: "A sly, provocative, and psychologically astute debut story collection from a 2015 Whiting Award winner In Leopoldine Core's stories, you never know where you are going to end up. Populated by sex workers and artists, lovers and friends, her characters are endlessly striving to understand each other. And while they may seem to operate at the margins, there is something eminently relatable, even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORSummary: The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWECarie, Jamie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CarieCarie, Jamie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARCowie, Vera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1987
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Summary: A grieving widow and professional mortician discovers there was more to the hit-and-run accident that took her husband's life than she originally thought, and vows to find out and get revenge on those responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AICCarie, Jamie.
Summary: "When Noah Wesley hears the faint sound outside the door of his remote Alaskan cabin during a violent nighttime blizzard, it is no less than the voice of God that urges him to take a closer look, to discover there his snow angel."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCarie, Jamie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARSummary: Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BELLeichter, Hilary
Summary: In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEILeichter, Hilary
Summary: "Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023