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Blauner, Peter

Summary: ""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLA

Bauer, Peter

Summary: Photoshop puts amazing design and photo-editing tools in the hands of creative professionals and hobbyists everywhere, and the latest version - Photoshop CC - is packed with even more powerful tools to help you manage and enhance your images. This friendly, full-color guide introduces you to the basics of Photoshop CC and provides clear explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: For Dummies a Wiley brand 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 006.6 BAU

Summary: Bella is still very much in love with Edward. The rest of the vampire coven who call themselves the Cullens, especially Alice, decide to throw Bella a private party for her eighteenth birthday. Things go wrong when Bella cuts her finger and thirst overcomes the vampires. As a result of the danger Bella was put through, the Cullen family decides to leave Forks, Washington. Bella becomes so...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWI RATED PG-13

Pattinson, Robert

Summary: After becoming a vampire, Bella finds her and her daughter's futures threatened by a series of events with potentially disastrous consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWI RATED PG-13

Brauner, Barbara

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lacey Unger-Ware has been selected to enter the Godmother Academy, but first she must complete a magical test.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRA

Dexter, Pete.

Summary: Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished."-- The New York Times Book Review The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011

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Dexter, Pete.

Summary: The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, a hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence and aims...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012

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Summary: Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks, Washington to live with her father. She begins her junior year in high school and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen. He holds a dark secret which is only known by his family. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for, a true soul mate. But he knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWI RATED PG-13

Brauner, Barbara.

Summary: "Lacey Unger-Ware has broken one of the Fairy Godmother rules, and if she doesn't help fulfill Martin Shembly's wish, there will be a chilly magical price to pay"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRA

Brauner, Barbara.

Summary: Middle school is far from a fairytale for adorkable misfit Lacey Unger-Ware. When Lacey ends up with popular girl Paige Harrington's smart-mouthed fairy godmother, Katarina, trapped in her hair, life gets more magical-just not in a prince charming' kind of way. Katarina's wings are too damaged to continue her duties, and Lacey must take over as Paige's fairy godmother. Distracted by her new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRA

Jeter, KW.

Summary: WHEN GEORGE'S FATHER DIED, HE LEFT GEORGE HIS WATCHMAKER SHOP -- AND MORE. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. The classic steampunk tale from the master of the genre. With a nw introduction by the author, and an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2011

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Horáček, Petr.

Summary: A little girl sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden one day and while searching for the butterfly the next day she is amazed by all of the other colors in the garden.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007

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Summary: Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED PG-13

Lauper, Cyndi

Contents: Funnel Of Love (3:15) -- Detour (feat. Emmylou Harris) (2:55) -- Misty Blue (3:19) -- Walkin' After Midnight (2:16) -- Heartaches By The Number (3:10) -- The End Of The World (3:12) -- Night Life (feat. Willie Nelson) (2:58) -- Begging To You (3:24) -- You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly (feat. Vince Gill) (3:42) -- I Fall To Pieces (3:00) -- I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart (feat. Jewel)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2016

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Harden, Blaine.

Summary: shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived North Korea is isolated and hungry bankrupt and belligerent It is also armed with nuclear weapons Between 150000 and 200000 people are being held in its political prison camps which have existed twice as long as Stalins Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012

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Apter, Bill

Summary: Complete with exclusive photographs and sensational backstage stories, Is Wrestling Fixed? is the much anticipated memoir from the biggest legend in wrestling fandom himself, Bill Apter As a kid growing up in New York in the late '50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling, and it wasn't long before he was rubbing shoulders with the greats as a young reporter and photographer....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2015

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Banner, Catherine.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world’s troubles. At the center of the island’s life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where over generations the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAN

Petri, Alexandra

Summary: "Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America's Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering "Who is that dude?" on national TV....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PETRI PET

Perera, Anna.

Summary: Innocent until proven guilty? Not here, you're not. He's fifteen. He's hasn't done anything wrong. It was supposed to be just a trip to visit his mum's family in Pakistan. But for Khalid Ahmed, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. He's kidnapped—then taken to a place thousands of miles from his home in the UK. A place where torture and terror are the daily routine. A place he may never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2011

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Pember, Mat

Summary: The Little Veggie Patch Co. DIY Garden Projects includes thirty-eight hands-on, step-by-step activities that will help cultivate your handiness and get you out in the garden. Chapters include projects for kids, vertical gardening, garden basics, using recycled materials, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 690.892 PEM

Schlesak, Dieter

Summary: "A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

Harden, Blaine.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHIN HAR

Fox, Hester

Summary: "In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOX

Pajer, Bernadette.

Summary: The race to win an electrical competition incites Professor Benjamin Bradshaw's obsession for invention in this sequel to A Spark of Death . The contest winner's telephonic system will deliver music of the Seattle Grand Theater to homes throughout the city, and Bradshaw is confident he can win. But he is diverted by a peddler and a child gone missing, while the assassination of President...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012

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