Summary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFFSummary: Includes seven original Christmas classics, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; Frosty the Snowman; and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORIMillar, Mark
Summary: "Thena Khole and Cody Blue are among the universe's most wanted felons. Each the leader of their own criminal ops, they run heists across the galaxies -- hopping from ship to ship to fleece everyone inside. But when both women are betrayed by their crews, the bandits only have one thing on their minds: REVENGE."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPAManuro
Summary: "This new middle-grade graphic novel series features an interactive pick-a-path storyline, full of puzzles, treasures, fantasy creatures, and gameplay you can enjoy again and again! Enter a world inspired by favorite fairy tales, complete with gingerbread houses, a girl dressed in red, and seven brothers lost in the woods. Readers can play as Hocus (a girl) or Pocus (a boy), choose a magic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MANHouser, Jody
Summary: "Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, and their companions barely escape Jedha after the destruction of Jedha City. Cassian takes the group to Eadu's research facility so he can carry out his secret orders to kill Galen. At the same time, Director Krennic travels to Eadu to confront Galen Erso."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STASummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPManoli, Costantia
Summary: A young girl feels out of place on her first day of school in a new country until she discovers that it only takes one friend to make her new surroundings feel like home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MANFowles, John
Summary: While in Lyme Regis to visit his fiancee, Ernestina Freeman, Charles Smithson, a 32-year-old paleontologist, becomes fascinated by the mysterious Sarah Woodruff. A fallen woman said to have been jilted by a French officer, Sarah is a pariah to the well-bred society that Charles and Ernestina are a part of. While searching for fossils in a wooded coastal area, Charles encounters Sarah alone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and co. 1969
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWMandelo, Lee
Summary: "Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANManibo, Victor.
Summary: Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erewhon 2024
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Summary: When Cara accidentally posts a rant about her father and his new wife online, it goes viral-- and catches the attention of the TV producers behind a new reality dating show for single parent families. Now Cara and her mother have been whisked away to sunny Key West where they're asked to narrow a field of suitors and their kids down to one winning pair. It's outside Cara's comfort zone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANHouser, Jody
Summary: "The Rebellion is here! The Rogue One crew makes the leap from the big screen to the comic-book page in this action-packed adaptation! All looks lost for the galaxy when the Empire's new super-weapon is discovered: any insurgency will quickly be thwarted by the devastating new Death Star! But maybe there is hope for the Rebel cause when Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor lead a crew of new heroes on a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HOURobins, Jane
Summary: "This chilling psychological suspense novel--think Strangers on a Train for the modern age--explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless facade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda's unassuming twin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMangle, Bethany
Summary: After an incident leads to her suspension, eighteen-year-old Brynn's high school persona that hides her secret disability is shattered, and she begins embracing her true self on her journey to self-acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANMangle, Bethany
Summary: Raised among doomsday preppers, Becca Aldaine's life has centered on planning for the worst, but when her escape plan is jeopardized, she turns to the boy she is expected to marry and hopes for the best. "Becca Aldaine's family is part of a community of doomsday preppers, a neighborhood that prioritizes survivalist training over class trips or senior prom. They are even arranging Becca's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANMatoso, Madalena
Summary: Travel along the story path and discover an enchanted world where fairy princesses battle with monsters from the deep and vampire cats zoom through the galaxy on silver unicorns. This innovative twist on the classic quest tale allows young readers to choose their own characters, settings and plots at every turn. With a simple, easy-to-follow structure and bold, quirky imagery by award-winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2016
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Summary: Michigan?s legendary Dogman returns in Nagual: Dawn of the Dogmen by Frank Holes, Jr. The third book in the series is a masterful blend of fantasy and folklore, delving into the pre-dawn history of the mysterious creature and then rushing forward to the present day. The supernatural beast is seen from two fronts. The first encounter, part of a 1700s French fur-trader?s dream, chronicles the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLSuri, Manil.
Summary: Marrying in order to escape an overbearing father, Meera is further victimized by her physically demanding husband and lustful brother-in-law, a circumstance from which she finds fleeting escape through her relationships with her sister-in-law and young son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURManko, Vanessa.
Summary: "Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCowles, Ashlee
Summary: 1912: Ava Knight, a teen heiress, boards the Titanic to escape the shadow of her unstable mother and to fulfill her dream of becoming a photographer in New York. During the journey she meets three people who will change her life: a handsome sailor, a soldier in the secret Black Hand society that will trigger World War I, and a woman with clairvoyant abilities. When disaster strikes the ship,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owl Hollow Press 0000
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Summary: "It's been five years since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, no closer to having their lives figured out. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living "funerals," celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living--and living well....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the working farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother is long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett intends to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC TOWTowles, Amor.
Summary: A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: "The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness," her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teaching of Ukrainian culture. They've even taken the grain from Zlata's family's fields. But despite the danger, her parents refuse to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024