Strong, Karen
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sarah is finally in charge. At last, she can spend her summer months reading her favorite science books and bossing around her younger brother, Ellis, instead of being worked to the bone by their overly strict grandmother, Mrs. Greene. But when their cousin, Janie arrives for a visit, Sarah's plans are completely squashed. Janie has a knack for getting into trouble and asks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STRCrow, Sheryl
Contents: Prove you wrong (featuring Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris) (3:56) -- Live wire (featuring Bonnie Raitt & Mavis Staples) (5:09) -- Tell me when it's over (featuring Chris Stapleton) (4:58) -- Story of everything (featuring Chuck D, Andra Day & Gary Clark Jr.) (6:25) -- Beware of darkness (featuring Eric Clapton, Sting & Brandi Carlile) (3:39) -- Redemption day (Sheryl Crow & Johnny Cash) (4:48) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CRO POP/ROCKStrong, Cecily
Summary: "Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: "A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin-and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her-amid the coronavirus pandemic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STRONG STRSting
Contents: The last ship -- Dead man's boots -- And yet -- August winds -- Language of birds -- Practical arrangement -- The night the pugilist learned how to dance -- Ballad of the great Eastern -- What have we got? (featuring Jimmy Nail) -- I love her but she loves someone else -- So to speak (featuring Becky Unthank) -- The last ship (reprise).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD STI POP/ROCKSting
Contents: The Lazarus heart (4:34) -- Be still my beating heart (5:32) --Englishman in New York (4:25) -- History will teach us nothing (4:58) -- They dance alone : (Cueca solo) (7:16) -- Fragile (3:54) -- We'll be together (4:52) -- Straight to the heart (3:54) -- Rock steady (4:27) -- Sister moon (3:46) --Little wing / Jimi Hendrix (5:04) -- The secret marriage (2:03) / music by Hans Eisler (2:03).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&M Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD P/R STIMaren, Mesha
Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARSting
Contents: I can't stop thinking about you -- 50,000 -- Down, down, down -- One fine day -- Pretty young soldier -- Petrol head -- Heading south on the great north road -- If you can't love me -- Inshallah -- The empty chair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD STI POP/ROCKSting
Contents: If you love somebody set them free -- We'll be together -- Fragile -- All this time -- If I ever lose my faith in you -- Fields of gold -- Desert rose (with Cheb Mami, vocals) -- Whenever I say your name (with Mary J. Blige) -- Never coming home -- Message in a bottle ; Demolition man ; Heavy cloud, no rain (live) (previously unreleased).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & M 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: DVD STIMaren, Mesha
Summary: "As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARStrong, Lynn Steger
Summary: "The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STRSummary: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOC RATED PG-13Goren, Viola.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.8652 GORGruman, Galen.
Summary: Get to know the incredible iPad in a uniquely different Dummies format! The iPad combines the best of your favorite gadgets into one amazing ultraportable touch device. And, thisone-of-a-kind For Dummies guide is your is your ticket for making the most out of your iPad or iPad 2. Thoroughly updated for the third-generation iPad, the new edition of this informative, full-color guide is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012
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Karon, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KARKaron, Jan
Summary: Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry. The charm of their lakeside B&B is broken when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthia's pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KARSummary: Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiance, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED PG-13Girma, Haben
Summary: Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with Ethiopia. Their refugee story inspired her to embark on a quest for knowledge, traveling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GIRMA GIRKaron, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KARKaron, Jan
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one--but what, exactly, does it prove? Meanwhile, newly married Dooley and Lace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARStrange, Lucy
Summary: Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him - the Curse of Six Daughters. With the arrival of the mysterious Full Moon Fayre, there's a chance for the eldest girls to steal a moment's fun, but the day the fayre moves on, Grace vanishes. Willa goes after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STRJahren, Hope
Summary: "Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: "Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STRStroud, Carsten.
Summary: Something is wrong in Niceville . . . A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012