Phipps, Marilene
Contents: Prologue: Saint Bernadette at night -- Down by the river -- Life outside my own -- Marie-Ange's ginen -- Dogs -- Meat -- Land -- River Valley rooms -- Grande Jesula gets a visit -- The chapel -- Venant found it hard to know -- Dame-Marie -- At the gate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIBrown, Larry
Summary: Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of cancer in the bedroom, the rationalizations of a wife beater, or the mind of a teenage killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCrotty, Marian
Summary: "In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In "Crazy for You," two girls spy on a neighbor's sex life, while their own sexuality hovers in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Of Iowa Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2011
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Summary: In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else , Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITGraham, Toni
Summary: "The people in these eight interlaced stories are 'bound together by the worst sort of grief,' the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middle American options: TV, rec league sports, eating out, and church. For Slater, Holly, and SueAnn, it is the night their suicide survivors group meets. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMoustakis, Melinda
Summary: Collection of short stories in which the author examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUCleeland, Anne
Summary: In this, the fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Doyle realizes that several apparently unrelated murders are actually "containment" murders--murders to contain an ominous scandal that could reach into the highest levels of Scotland Yard's CID. In the process of tracking down the killers, however, she comes to the unsettling conclusion that Chief Inspector...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artemis Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEHicks, Betty.
Summary: Ten-year-old Goose is best at goofing off, but when he decides to become the goalie for their soccer team, his friend Henry sets up a practice schedule and enlists their other friends to help Goose improve his skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HICZamorsky, Tania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2022
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Summary: Doyle was back at Scotland Yard after taking maternity leave, and the powers-that-be had decided they'd ease her way by assigning her to assist DS Isabella Munoz, which was a fate only slightly worse than death. ...[T]he first assignment out of the box was a possible suicide at the housing projects, something that happened with such regularity that it was a wonder the responding officer had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artemis Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEBoothby, Ian
Summary: "Charlie and August, the two cats that control the mechanical superhero dog, Sparks, are keeping the city safe. But when a second, evil Sparks shows up and starts causing trouble around town, everybody blames the real Sparks. Determined to prove that Sparks is still the hero everyone can count on, Charlie and August set out to uncover the shocking truth about who is responsible for all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: August is a brilliant inventor who is afraid of the outside. Charlie is a crack pilot who isn't afraid of anything. Together these pals save lives every day. They also happen to be cats who pilot a powerful, mechanical dog suit! Always eager to leap into danger, this feline duo have their work cut out for them as they try to thwart Princess, an evil alien bent on enslaving mankind. Don't let...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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Summary: An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPYOlmstead, Kathleen.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MELTait, Chris.
Summary: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STEZamorsky, Tania.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELCarroll, Lewis
Summary: Alice in Wonderland: Alice falls down a rabbit hole to find herself in a bizarre land ruled by a ruthless Queen of Hearts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023