Summary: Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTSummary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Girl 2004Summary: New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOAspe, Pieter
Summary: A bizarre burglary involving jewels being dissolved in super-strong acid and a note with a square on it left behind sends Inspector Van In on a strange investigation involving Latin phrases, kidnapping, and stolen, priceless art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASPSummary: Jeremy Irons stars in The Borgias, the saga of history's most infamous crime family. Conspiring with his ruthless sons and poisonously seductive daughter, the charismatic Rodrigo Borgia will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his relentless quest for wealth and power. Mercilessly cruel and defiantly decadent, intimidation and murder are his weapons of choice in his scandalous ascension...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORPinter, Jason
Summary: "On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PINSchlesak, Dieter
Summary: "A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHVercher, John
Summary: "Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia-a struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to keep in shape while he waits for the call that will reinstate him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERPinter, Jason.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINHauer, Rutger
Summary: The story of religious persecution in 16th century Flanders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILSummary: Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BULOvermyer, Beth
Summary: "In a land where magic's feared, a magical kind exists: the Blest, products of the Goblets Immortal and Aidan's one of them and on the run. Whispers of a new fear take shape in Meraude, a mage who hates all magic-kind. When she appears in Aidan's dreams offering a bargain for the return of his family, he needs to make the most difficult decision."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flame Tree Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OVEVercher, John
Summary: "Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a newly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERSummary: Anna and Ben are a couple who can't stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to turn all their fights into song, and with the help of their neighbor Dave, they start a band.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BANVercher, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The story of a high-profile, messy divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it, told solely via personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIEWister, Owen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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Summary: Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rieger 2017Kiester, Alex
Summary: "From the moment Ben and June met in a hospital waiting room on New Year's Eve, their love has seemed fated. Looking back at all the tiny, unlikely decisions that brought them together, it was easy to believe their relationship was special. But now, after several years of marriage, June is struggling as a new mom. At times, she wonders about the life she didn't choose -- what might have been if...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIESummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPMitter, Matt
Summary: "Join Sofie and all her friends on the sweetest day of the year as they make Valentine's Day cards and paper hearts, decorate cakes and cookies, and have a holiday party to celebrate their friendship! Lift more than 50 flaps to discover fun surprises and be introduced to early learning concepts including shapes and matching."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun International 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MITKiefer, Christian
Summary: Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals--raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them--that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIEBieker, Chelsea
Summary: "Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020