Summary: Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BILSummary: Weighed down by grief and guilt, DCI Tom Mathias comes to coastal Aberystwyth after a decade on the London police force. Escaping recent hurts and long-simmering trauma, he's on a journey of recovery, healing himself by bringing justice to others. But the beautiful seaside vistas and close-knit mountain villages hide a multitude of sins. Partnered with hardworking local DI Mared Rhys, Mathias...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HINSummary: Thelma is an abused and neglected wife, while her friend Louise is a bitter, hard-edged waitress. The two decide to take a brief vacation to escape the drudgery of their everyday lives. Immediately, they run into trouble, as Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma in the parking lot of a country bar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THEThoman, Lauren
Summary: Is it the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time? Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents. The unsolved crime happened long before Justin was born, but the ripple effects are still felt after thirty-eight years. Justin always knew he wouldn't have much of a future. He just never imagined that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ThomanPalacios, Tomas
Summary: No single hero can defeat the evil trickster, Loki -- but with six of Earth's mightiest heroes combined, they stand a chance! Find out how Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the Hulk all first met and what forces them to band together to form the Avengers!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Peter Quill, son of the king of Spartax, leads the Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of intergalactic heroes set on protecting the universe from the evil Badoon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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Summary: Join Thor, the Warriors Three, and Lady Sif as they render order across the cosmos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALThomason, Dustin.
Summary: From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon--perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown. For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Rodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODTomasi, Peter
Summary: "Batman and Robin Vol. 5 collects the DC Comics--The New 52 origin of Two-Face and Carrie Kelley! The origin of Two-Face begins as Batman finds himself in the crossfire of a vengeful war between Two-Face and Erin McKillen! Both are hell bent on killing each other and anyone else who dares to step between them. And what are the mysterious connections between Harvey Dent's life and the origin of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATMoniz, Tomas
Summary: "Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole--a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender--is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acre 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Introduces the origin story of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALTomasi, Peter.
Summary: It's the prelude to "The Blackest Night" as the "War of Light" continues to intensify! Mongul attempts to establish his hold on the Sinestro Corps by enslaving the planet Daxam and making it the home world of his Corps. What does Sinestro's right hand man, Arkillo, think of all this? And will Sodam Yat, the Green Lantern known as Ion, fight to save his homeworld, which he's vowed to never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2009
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC TOMThomason, Dustin.
Summary: Shortly before December 21, 2012, a CDC expert encounters a confounding medical mystery, and a talented Mayan scholar comes into possession of a priceless codex with terrifying implications for modern civilization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBelleza, Rhoda.
Summary: It does not necessarily take a fist to create a punch in the gut. This fourteen-story YA fiction anthology delves into the experience of being bulliedsocially, emotionally, physically, psychologically, and sexually. The school hallways, walks home, and house walls are no longer the boundaries for intimidation and harassment. With the rapid-fire response time of social media and smartphones,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2012
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Thoms, Susan Collins.
Summary: On each of the twelve days during her Christmas visit with her cousin Will, Katie writes home describing the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Michigan that she has explored. Uses the cumulative pattern of the traditional carol to present amusing state trivia at the end of each letter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday ThomsCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE THOMontijo, Rhode.
Summary: A lonely little cloud boy uses his imagination to overcome his loneliness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MONMontijo, Rhode.
Summary: The brave and trusty Halloween Kid saves trick-or-treaters from a crowd of sweet-stealing Goodie Goblins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE MONSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: It is a stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder. Yvonne Carmichael, is a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down when a chance meeting with Mark Costley leads to a passionate affair and a moment of shocking violence. Her only way out...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV APPTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMRussell, Sean
Summary: While on route to the Caribbean to meddle with French shipping to the colonies, Captain Charles Hayden must deal with two dilemmas when the HMS Themis first rescues a suspicious pair of Spanish castaways whose origins and agenda are suspect, and then stumbles across a crippled slave ship. Upon arriving at the Barbados station, he finds himself under the command of the impetuous and foolhardy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSSummary: A dramatization of the story of Dan Morgan, an adventurer whose exploits during the Australian gold rush caused him to become a wanted outlaw and the object of a manhunt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Troma Entertainment Inc. 2009