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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATStarford, Rebecca
Summary: "A twisting, sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5. But in chasing the secrets of others, how much will she lose of herself?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASpufford, Francis
Summary: A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUSpufford, Francis
Summary: The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUDanford, Natalie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANStafford, Jean
Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASalvatori, R.A.
Summary: To make matters even worse, a few moments later, Matron Baenre was casting yet another spell, opening a planar gate to the Abyss, calling forth a mighty glabrezu to help in her hunting. In his twisted, always suspicious mind, Errtu came to believe that this was enacted only to torment him, to take one of his own kind and use the beast to facilitate the end of the pact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALStanford, Phil
Summary: Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Salvatore, R.A.
Summary: With the last of his trusted companions having fallen, Drizzt is alone--and free--for the first time in almost a hundred years. Guilt mingles with relief, leaving Drizzt uniquely vulnerable to the persuasions of his newest companion--Dahlia, a darkly alluring elf and the only other member of their party to survive the cataclysm at Mount Hotenow. But traveling with Dahlia is challenging in more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast Publishing 2011
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Stafford, Jean
Summary: This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STADiehl, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longstreet Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEStanford, Claire
Summary: "Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STABamford, Emma
Summary: Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a Captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAMSummary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANTrafford, J. D.
Summary: Matthew Daley is a Manhattan corporate lawyer at the top of his game. As the first defense attorney on call to get pharmaceutical companies out of trouble, Matt is rising in the judicial system exactly as he planned. Until his sister dies of a heroin overdose. Now, torn between conscience and career, the newly minted law partner faces a critical choice: defend the very companies that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC TRASpufford, Francis
Summary: "Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M SPUSpufford, Francis
Summary: "New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUFrey, Rea
Summary: Emma Grace Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Missing since June. Emma Townsend is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude. Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Abandoned by her mother. Kidnapper. Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRESummary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COWSandford, John
Summary: 'We're going to murder people who need to be murdered.' So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as 'The Five,' shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored, and very rich. They target the worst of society, rapists, murderers, and thieves, and then use their unlimited resources to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANSummary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FULRea, Neill
Summary: Follows Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd and Detective Kristin Sims as they investigate crimes in the small New Zealand town of Brokenwood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Brokenwood 2017Irvine, Jeremy
Summary: Albert Narracott enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAR PG-13White, Dianne
Summary: In rhyming text the reader takes a walk on a garden path, through a meadow, and along the banks of a stream, noting the animals that are seen along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022