Skyhorse, Brando.
Summary: A novel that explores the lives of those who shed their ethnic identity in pursuit of the American dream highlights a different character in each chapter, including Hector, a middle-aged day laborer who witnesses a murder, and his ex-wife Felicia, who survives a drive-by shooting.
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 SKYSkyhorse, Brando
Summary: "Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SKYParkhurst, Carolyn
Summary: Widow and novelist Octavia Frost is reunited with her estranged son Milo after he is arrested for murdering his girlfriend. Octavia then embarks on a troubling quest to root out the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARSummary: Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villian who usurps the crown. Through family machinations, political marriages and military coups, this play portrays the tumultous reign of King Edward IV and the ascension of Richard to the throne, an intricate period in English history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2000
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RICAlcott, Kate
Summary: Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALCAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Taking a job at the studio where David O. Selznick is filming "Gone with the Wind," Julie Crawford becomes an assistant to Carole Lombard, a rising actress from Julie's hometown who embarks on a scandalous affair with Clark Gable.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ATWBaker, Dave
Summary: Who is MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK? How did she save the world from a dimension-hopping megalomaniac? Why was her TV show canceled after only nine episodes? These are just a few of the questions that young journalist Dave Baker begins to ask himself as he unravels the many mysteries surrounding the obscure comic book Mary Tyler MooreHawk. However, his curiosity grows into an obsession when he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing 2024
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Summary: "In the aftermath of the Avengers' Civil War, Scott Lang, the incredible Ant-Man, is grappling with the consequences of his choices -- as a Super Hero, a father, and a friend. While he struggles to rebalance his life (and get used to living under house arrest), Hope Van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym have been forced into hiding, and Hope has taken up her own Super Hero mantle: the Wasp. With Hope and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: A selection of short stories includes pieces spanning the author's career and features characters whose relationships with each other endure in the face of changing times, lost hopes, and new loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BINBloom, Amy
Summary: Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris's ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island. With their friends in high and low places, Iris...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLOBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOHBrown, Sandra
Summary: A notorious bachelor asks the widow of his best friend to accompany him on a getaway weekend in Acapulco.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBurnham, Erik
Summary: "In Seattle, Washington, the Ghostbusters square off against the ghost of a musician known for spontaneous combustion."--Publisher website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC BURBurnham, Erik
Summary: "With Venkman possessed by a brain-sucking bug, the Ghostbusters struggle to figure out their next line of action. Meanwhile, Venkman tries to negotiate with his possessor."--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC BURCatanese, Elizabeth
Summary: After getting separated from his brother in the crowds of Mt. Olympus Theme Park, Harvey decides to go on Pandora's box, the only ride available to wheelchair users, but when he finds himself in the middle of the myth, he helps Pandora's creator craft a new character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CATDiTerlizzi, Tony.
Contents: The field guide -- The seeing stone -- Lucinda's secret -- The ironwood tree -- The wrath of Mulgarath.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J DITDouyé, Sylvia
Summary: "Sorceline has proven herself a star student at Balzar's prestigious academy--but her gifts might have gotten the best of her. As Sorceline fights for her life, her classmates must work to uncover her origin story, revealing details of her past that may offer a key to their present. At the back of the book, enjoy an illustrated bestiary along with behind-the-scenes bonus material!" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series DouyeGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Kinsey Millhone, a gutsy P.I., to find the real killer of Laurence Fife. The trail is cold but Kinsey finds a lead. It brings her face-to-face with the murderer!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1993
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Summary: An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: When Martin and Tawny's children disappeared, the couple barreled into the desert to track them down at any cost. Instead, they ran afoul of another group of rovers who claimed to be saving the world by traveling through a cave portal to the year 1492 to prevent the creation of America-an idea that defied belief until the grieving parents were lured into the cave and vanished in time and space....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EARKarp, Marshall
Summary: The new novel from Marshall Karp, cocreator and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling series NYPD Red.Snowstorm in August features a sneak peek at the forthcoming NYPD Red 7.Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. Only it's not snow. It's cocaine.Four thousand pounds of it. Uncut. Blanketing meadows and treetops. Knocking birds from the sky, dropping carriage horses to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KARKnott, Robert
Summary: Managing an influx of carpetbaggers, gamblers, thieves and other disreputables in prosperous Appaloosa, Cole and Hitch are challenged by a flashy and womanizing casino owner who proves slippery when he is implicated in a series of murders.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016