Summary: Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Magic 2014Summary: A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Home Pictures Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midnight 2011Summary: Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHASummary: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cafe 2016Summary: When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASTenenbaum, Tamara
Summary: "Both an autobiography and a feminist manifesto about how we understand romantic love today, and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Compass 2024
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Summary: "Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 ALEAlexander, Stephon
Summary: "A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 ALESteffen, Sandra.
Summary: On the surface, thirty-six-year-old Brooke Valentine has a picture-perfect life: a gorgeous. Main Line husband, a precocious pre-teen daughter, a great career in advertising, and a stunning house in Philadelphia's Society Hill. But when her husband cheats on her--again--Brooke is devastated. Reeling from the blow, she takes her daughter and heads to the one place she feels safe: home. Alcott is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STESteffen, Randy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Western Horseman 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.2 STEWilkes, Stephany
Summary: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILKES, STEPHANY WILPaelissier, Staephan
Summary: "The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Staephan Paelissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison bythe Greek justice system, which accused him of human smuggling. His crime? Having gone to search for the parents, brother, and sister of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAELISSIER, STAEPHAN, PAESteffen, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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Summary: A collection of newly unearthed 4-track tape recordings, demos and compositional sketches created by legendary producer/arranger Charles Stepney in the basement of his home on the Sothside of Chicago, sometime between the late 1960s and his untimely death in 1976.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ STEAbarbanell, Stephan
Summary: "Keynote For fans of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, Displaced is a deeply intelligent literary debut thriller--set within a world still reeling from WWII--about how the actions of a few can change the course of history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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Summary: "In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEPastis, Stephan.
Summary: Accompanied by his sidekick polar bear and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins, Timmy takes his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TALTalty, Stephan.
Summary: Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 PUJOL, JUAN TALLebert, Stephan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.087 LEBPastis, Stephan
Summary: While his mother and doorman Dave celebrate their wedding, Timmy visits Florida where he forges a new partnership with Dave's nephew, Emilio, when a surprise newcomer shows up and he encounters a thieving six-toed cat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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Summary: His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs: for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report is the key to everything, including a good grade. It's dirty business. It's best you know nothing. But one thing is for sure: Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: "The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice-a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2020
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Summary: In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage. Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn’t keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013