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Summary: A deeply humane novel that explores the fate of candor, good will, and the utopian spirit in a world where technology and surveillance are weaponizing human relationships. One autumn night, as a grad student named Matthew is walking home from the subway, a handsome skateboarder catches his eye. Leif, mesmerizing and enigmatic, invites Matthew to meet his friends, who are experimenting with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRASilverstein, Shel.
Summary: A circle has difficulty finding its missing piece but has a good time looking for it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1976
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SILSilverstein, Shel.
Summary: After leaving the jungle for the circus and a life of fame and wealth, a lion who taught himself to be the best shot in the world discovers he's not really a lion anymore, and not really a man, either.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1963
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Summary: After leaving the jungle for the circus and a life of fame and wealth, a lion who taught himself to be the best shot in the world discovers he's not really a lion anymore, and not really a man, either.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1963
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Summary: A hilarious look at the joys of having a rhinoceros as your friend, with Silverstein's signature humor and black-and-white artwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2021
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Summary: A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1964
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Summary: There are lots of things a rhinoceros can do around one's house, including eating bad report cards before one's parents see them, tiptoeing downstairs for a midnight snack, and collecting extra allowance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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Summary: A missing piece, looking for someone to carry it along, finally develops its own momentum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1981
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILCrais, Robert
Summary: "A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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Summary: Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2018
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Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group (USA), Inc. 2011
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Craik, W. A.
Summary: First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly groundbreaking study of Austen which, in addition to a close analysis of the novels themselves, also goes on investigate the principles by which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1965
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Carol Starkey, a Los Angeles bomb squad detective who suffered permanent scarring and watched her lover/partner die in a prior detonation, embarks on a dangerous investigation into a series of explosions rocking the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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Summary: Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol Starkey's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol. When a bomb call takes the life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Pub. Group 2012
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Summary: Adele Schumacher hires Elvis to find her missing son, controversial podcaster Josh Shoe. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis isn't alone in the hunt: a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find Josh and his adult film star girlfriend first. He calls on his friend Joe Pike to uncover the truth about Josh, corrupt politicians, and the vicious business cartels rotting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "Adele Schumacher isn't a typical worried mom. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of professional bodyguards. Finding Josh should be simple, but a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find him first. With dangerous secrets lurking behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Elvis Cole and partner Joe Pike search for 10-year-old Ben Chenier (son of attorney Lucy Chenier), who has disappeared without a trace while staying with Cole in Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACrace, Jim.
Summary: In a futuristic American wasteland, an injured Franklin Lopez joins forces with Margaret, a woman suffering from a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse, as the two discover that their dreams of a safe future mean following an unexpected path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACrying Wind.
Summary: "Artist--frelance writer--lecturer--Crying Wind gives insights into American Indian culture and the cultural barriers an Indian must hurdle when he accepts Christ."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 1980
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970 CRYMcCaig, Donald.
Summary: The life and times of the enigmatic Rhett Butler unfold. Meet Rhett as a boy, a free spirit who loved the marshes and tidewaters of the Low Country, and learn of the ruthlessness of his father, whose desire for control resulted in unspeakable tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007