Tomasi 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMMoniz, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acre 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONHeyman, Alissa.
Summary: A collection of well-known pirate tales, abridged and adapted for younger readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.45 VINWest, Alexandra
Summary: Banished to Earth to learn humility as a human, Thor proves his mettle and earns his hammer once again, but Loki still stands in his way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One evening everyone in a part of the English town of Midwich falls unconscious, and upon waking, every woman has fallen pregnant. The spawn of these pregnancies are The Midwich Cuckoos, a group of strange "children" who will change the town forever. Based on the iconic novel by John Wyndham comes the spine-chilling first season of The Midwich Cuckoos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDHardy, Thomas
Summary: Innocent Tess Durbeyfield's maidenhood is stolen by the dishonorable Alex d'Urberville and yet she is able to find true love with Angel Clare; their happiness is later shattered, for when her past is revealed, Clare rejects her love until it is too late ...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARKing, Thomas
Summary: A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KINMacri, Thomas
Summary: "Learn how Tony Stark became the super hero known as Iron Man."--The publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACMacri, Thomas.
Summary: After Spider-Man receives a new, powerful costume, the hero begins to wonder where its power comes from and whether it is good or evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MACMann, Thomas
Summary: A story about a writer of world renown and his slow spiral to a degrading sensuality and eventual death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC MANPerry, Thomas
Summary: Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERThomas, Angie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, Khalil's death is a national headline. Some are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOThomas, Angie
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Thomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, Leah
Summary: When the Vasquez siblings' father left, there was an absence in their lives-- until a shimmering figure named Luz appeared in the canyon behind their house. He shot hoops with Hank's hands. He showed Ana cinematic beauty behind her eyelids. He spoke kindly to Milo. But when Luz left, he took something from each of them. As a new school year begins, Hank, Ana, and Milo question how can they ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC THOThomas, Will
Summary: "Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all -- he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland Fitzhugh, Member of Parliament, arrives to consult Barker and his partner Thomas Llewelyn, he falls to the floor, dead, upon entering. As they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: When an upper-class girl goes missing in the East End, rough-hewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Baker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, link her disappearance to the murders of five girls in Bethnal Green before receiving taunting letters from a man with possible ties to a hedonistic gang of debauched aristocrats involved with possible satanic rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOWheeler, Thomas
Summary: "Nimue grew up an outcast. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave. . . . That is, until Red Paladins slaughter her entire village, and Nimue's fate is forever altered. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people's only hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Flintham, Thomas
Summary: Super Rabbit Boy is racing in the Super Grand Prix car race--but among the other racers is King Viking and his team of cheaters, and they will do anything to win.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: "An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man--a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKeneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMacri, Thomas
Summary: Describes Tony Stark's alter ego, Iron Man, including his friends, powers, and super suit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight/Marvel 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACMacri, Thomas.
Summary: Introduces the superhero Spider-Man, explaining what makes his special.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACMallon, Thomas
Summary: "Up with the Sun is a fictional look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York City in the 1980s. Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor-until he wasn't. From co-starring in Broadway shows, to becoming part of Lucille Ball's historic Desilu workshop, and then finally landing his own short-lived primetime TV series, Dick's star was clearly on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023