Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACJoshi, Alka
Summary: After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 0000
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Summary: After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSJoshi, Alka
Summary: "Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist--and confidante--to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own. Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Joshi 2020Joshi, Alka
Summary: Immersed in her exciting perfume work, Radha hears that her unacknowledged son is coming to Paris to find her, which could upset her career and threaten to destroy a vulnerable marriage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOSJoshi, Alka
Summary: Back in the Pink City where he was once a wily street urchin, Malik, assigned to help Samir Singh's feckless son Ravi build the new public cinema, finds his livelihood, reputation and the people he loves most threatened after Ravi implicates him in a ruthless scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOSSummary: "Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror's longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with an introduction by bestselling author Josh Malerman and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell. Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection contains 12...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSAllen, Josh
Summary: A collection of thirteen short stories that reveals frightening secrets lurking in everyday objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALLAlharthi, Jokha
Summary: In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya Marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALHARAllen, Josh
Summary: A collection of thirteen short stories showing how horribly wrong food, dating, jobs, and even a bed pillow can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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Summary: Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency by Jokha Alharthi. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALHLevy, Joshua (Joshua S.)
Summary: Seventh-grader Jack and his classmates find themselves in hostile alien territory after Jack accidentally launches their rickety public schoolship light years away from home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVSummary: "Jason Whittaker tracks down the villainous Mr. Grote to London and discovers an ominous plot that could endanger the leaders of the free world. With the help of some old friends, will he unravel it in time? Back in Odyssey, Eugene Meltsner and Red Holland tell the story of a World War I hero-- Sergeant Alvin York. And Penny Wise's plan to promote Connie Kendall's wedding planning business...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CDA Fic AdvJong, Erica.
Summary: "As the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, fifteen years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discovering that beginnings are easy, but endings can be hard. Could her fountain of youth fantasies be fulfilled on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONBarkan, Joshua
Summary: A short story collection traces the experiences of everyday citizens, expats, and travelers in Mexico whose lives are turned upside down by the violence and chaos of the drug cartels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBraff, Joshua
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAFerris, Joshua
Summary: Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERFerris, Joshua.
Summary: After noticing his identity has been stolen and used to create various social media accounts, a man with a troubled past, Paul O'Rourke, begins to wonder if his virtual alter ego is actually a better version of himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERHood, Joshua
Summary: "The first novel in an explosive new series inspired by Robert Ludlum's Bourne universe, The Treadstone Resurrection introduces an unforgettable hero and the shadowy world that forged him.."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOHood, Joshua
Summary: A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOOMoehling, Joshua
Summary: "When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MoehlingWhitehead, Joshua
Summary: Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, andlinkages - and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home for his step-father's funeral, he learns how to put together the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018