Summary: The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage, about an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PHAWard, Catriona
Summary: At the turn of England's century, as the wind whistles in the lonely halls of Rawblood, young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted, through the generations, by "her," a curse passed down through ancient blood that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak. Iris forsakes her promise to her father, to remain alone, safe from the world. She dares to fall in love, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSummary: Steve McGarrett is head of a new elite federalized task force whose mission is to wipe out the crime that washes up on the Islands' sun-drenched beaches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/Paramount Network Television 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAWMartins, Vitor
Summary: The house at Number 8 Sunflower Street tells the stories of three teenagers who have lived within its walls in the 21st century--Ana, a lesbian forced to leave her home, Greg sent to live with his aunt when his parents divorce, and Beto, a would-be photographer living during the COVID pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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Summary: "Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, in a failed career, trying to dodge the constant manipulation of his powerful father. This monotonous existence is shaken up when he learns, after years without news of his estranged sister, Laura, that she has committed suicide in dramatic circumstances. Her death pushes the fragile balance of Gonzalo's life as both a father and husband to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARBFactor, Katherine
Summary: "The year is 1915, and YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands. You have just arrived in Bali, Indonesia with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? Your trek through the mysterious Balinese jungle might lead you to a top secret spy school, but if you leave now, you will miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC FACCanning, Victor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1972
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANHugo, Victor
Summary: The eternal conflict between the will of man and the power of nature, as expressed by the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGLaValle, Victor.
Summary: New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can't quite square...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: ""This is Reaper speaking." So begins an anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered. Tooele County sheriff Elizabeth Gray leads the investigation into the double homicide, which is eerily reminiscent of a string of brutal killings years ago. When the letter leads detectives to yet another body, Gray calls on an old friend for help. Former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC METTector, Amy
Summary: Jess Kendall wants to make a good impression on her new boss at Canada's Dominion Archives and thinks she's hit the jackpot when she finds some mysterious letters from the First World War. Setting out to unravel their story, she starts researching in the Archive's art vault. There, however, she stumbles across the body of a colleague. When Jess makes the connection between the letters, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TECHugo, Victor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGHugo, Victor
Summary: "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use," says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly, Les Mise;rables is French history recounted through the personal stories of its main characters. The tale offers philosophical insight on the good deeds that can happen even amidst ignorance and poverty. This handsome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canterbury Classics 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUGLaValle, Victor
Summary: "Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear... The year is 1914, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader....
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVManibo, 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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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMilán, Victor.
Summary: A world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise as do dogs, cats, ferrets, goats, and horses. But dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden and of war. Colossal plant-eaters like Brachiosaurus; terrifying meat-eaters like Allosaurus, and the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILTobar, Héctor
Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020Victoire, Camila
Summary: "At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VICGischler, Victor
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Publisher / Publication Date: UglyTown 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISHugo, Victor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Airmont Pub. Co. 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGHugo, Victor
Summary: "Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life. His righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canterbury Classics 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUGHugo, Victor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGJestin, Victor
Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JESLodato, Victor
Summary: "Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017