Summary: 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 Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAKriegman, Mitchell
Summary: "A complete re-imagining of the 1990s television hit Clarissa Explains it All as 20-something Clarissa tries to navigate the unemployment line, mompreneurs, and the collision of two people in love"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRIAbrahams, Peter
Summary: Roy Valois has been given four months to live. Curious, he hacks into the New York Times to read his impending obituary and notices a discrepancy in the information about his deceased wife Delia, who Roy believes died accidentally. As he digs around, Roy realizes Delia led a secret life. The more he learns, the less he feels he knew his wife at all. And now the clock is ticking on his time to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABRAbrahams, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AbrRissman, Rebecca
Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RISAbraham, Brad
Summary: ""Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection and mayhem. A must read for enthusiasts of edgy and extreme fiction." --Don Coscarelli, director of John Dies...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: A young woman who hopes to give up her bartending job to become a successful writer, Ivy Seidel falls under the spell of Vance Harrow, convicted for a terrible crime, while teaching writing to inmates at a maximum security prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: When a baseball star fails to bring victory to his team, Gil Renard, an outraged fan who has lost everything except his fanatic passion for baseball, decides to murder him. The novel follows the murderer, a knife salesman, as he infiltrates the world of the fallen hero to make things right. By the author of Pressure Drop.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: Facing his own impending death from a rare respiratory disease, Roy Valois, hacks into the morgue files at the New York Times to research his own obituary, and discovers that his long-dead wife, Delia, was not the person he thought she was.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRChang, Abraham
Summary: "Young is an American Born Chinese (ABC) growing up in Queens and has been told by his beloved Su Su (uncle) that one has only seven great loves in a lifetime. Young's childhood is marked by an obsessive love of comics, music, and movies. . . as well as a parade of school-yard crushes, tantalizing pen-pal exchanges, and a lasting infatuation with Winona Ryder. But, at the end of 1995, when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEReisman, Nancy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REIRickman, Phil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICVerghese, Abraham
Summary: Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this novel is set in Kerala, on India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning, and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VERVerghese, Abraham.
Summary: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009
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Summary: The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRReisman, Nancy
Summary: "During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its mark on each family member. Trompe l'Oeil seamlessly alternates among several characters' points of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRickman, Phil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICRiesen, Lila
Summary: "Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIEAbrahams, Peter
Summary: Missing his fifteen-years-dead wife while facing his own impending death from a rare respiratory disease, Roy Valois hacks into the "New York Times" to research his own future obituary and makes a shattering discovery about his late wife's true identity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe 2007