Mullarkey, John
Summary: On May 31, 1889, as the waters rise in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Beth, her mother, and Vincent, a boy she likes, struggle to save what they can from the flooding but when the dam collapses the reader is invited to choose between three possible endings for Sarah Beth and her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MULParis, Harper
Summary: "Twins Ethan and Ella are in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, and there's another mystery to solve. Where are all the lions? Ethan and Ella spot lots of cool animals, but the one they're most excited about, they can't seem to find"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARDiehl, August
Summary: Follows the early lives of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and Friedrich Engels, as they roam between Paris, Brussels, and London, helping to lead the developing labor movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUSummary: The groundbreaking series returns, exploring the next phase of human colonization on Mars. Blending powerful drama, action, and visual effects, with insightful interviews featuring leading space-science innovators and thinkers -- such as Elon Musk, Andy Weir, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Kim Stanley Robinson -- MARS explores the perils and promise of the next great frontier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARCollins, A. L. (Ai Lynn)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Belle Song and her family moved to Mars because they were offered good jobs, only to find that the jobs have disappeared--her father, Yun, is unwilling to return to the worn-out Earth, so, to the horror of his city-raised daughter, he buys a farm in the "Wild West" area of Mars, and Belle does her best to adapt to a life which is filled with difficulties and danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLSummary: A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINMari, Michele
Summary: Italy’s great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last. On the cusp between autobiography and fiction, at the crossroads of memory andmyth, these stories by Italy’s answer to both Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges find the obsessions of childhood coming back to haunt the present day in hilarious and unsettling ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Xu, Wendy
Summary: "Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books / HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 XUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC XUBrown, Marc Tolon
Summary: "A collection of memorable scenes, quotes, and lessons from the Arthur series of books and television shows that explores the ups and downs of life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROBarrett, Judi
Summary: When astronauts land on Mars, their first discovery is a substance not unlike pie filling and Kate and Henry are eager to go taste some, but Grandpa, who may have some inside information, discourages them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Barrett 2013Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLCullen, Lynn
Summary: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULGarwood, W. R. (William R.)
Summary: "Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Arthur, Keri.
Summary: Working for an organization that polices supernatural races, Riley Jenson--half werewolf, half vampire--is given the task of infiltrating the heavily guarded pleasure palace of Deshon Star, a criminal mastermind who has been experimenting with genetics for decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ART RJ 5Hogan, Mary
Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, genetic information from Lee Parker's closed adoption is unlocked. She also sees an old photograph of a genetic relative, a nineteenth Century woman with hair and eyes likes hers, standing in a pile of rubble from an ecological disaster next to none other than Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. Determined to identify the woman in the photo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGSummary: Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction WargaArthur, Keri.
Summary: Half-vampire, half-werewolf Riley Jenson must use all the dhampire powers at her command as she tracks two vicious serial killers--one who targets high-society strumpets and their lovers, and the other who selects victims with tragic pasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF ARTArthur, Keri.
Summary: Dhampire Riley Jenson, a hybrid of vampire and werewolf, journeys to Melbourne and into the heart of the city's seductive and dangerous urban underworld to find an enigmatic killer who has been using a nightclub that caters to its denizens' every fantasy as his stalking grounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Book/Bantam Dell 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Television series that follows marshal Wyatt Earp from Ellsworth to Wichita to Dodge City and Tombstone as he tries to tame the Wild West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Timeless Media Group 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LIFSummary: Chronicles the lives of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters, a successful OB/GYN, is conducting a secret study of human sexuality. Soon, he meets Virginia Johnson, a former nightclub singer who is now part of the hospital secretarial staff. He enlists her help with his study, and she quickly proves to be an asset to Masters' work. Together, they delve deeper than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012