Hurst, Carol Otis.
Summary: A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HURSummary: Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INCSummary: After he reuniites with an old school pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CENOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthralled by her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATOates, Joyce Carol.
Summary: Joyce Carol Oates' hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family's tyrannical patriarch, "Tiny" Culligan. Tiny doesn't know what to make of Hedda's intellectual boyfriend, Saul. But then, Saul doesn't know what to make of Hedda's sister, the slinky Maggie, who finds Jewish professors very sexy indeed. An...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2012
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Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: A recklessly idealistic girl tests the limits of her oppressively controlled, dystopian world and is punished by being sent back in time to Wainscotia, Wisconsin, eighty years in the past, only to fall fatefully in love with a fellow exile.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCarol, Oates Joyce.
Summary: A wildly inventive new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates that charts the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours The New York Times has hailed Joyce Carol Oates as "a dangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one who takes risks almost obsessively with energy and relish." Black Dahlia & White Rose, a collection of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: When a woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M OATOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "In the 1840s, a young man named Silas Weir begins practicing medicine in Pennsylvania. Though he is considered inept by family, neighbors, and even his mentor, Dr. Weir discovers he has a gift for phlebotomy, treating patients by bleeding them to purify their bodies. But when an experimental procedure goes horribly wrong, Dr. Weir is forced to start over, relocating his family to Trenton, New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. "My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2011
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Carol, Oates Joyce.
Summary: A riveting novel that explores the high price of success in the life of one woman--the first female president of a lauded ivy league institution--and her hold upon her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates, author of the New York Times bestseller A Widow's Story Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns, forcing her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day-less than 24...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATOates, Joyce Carol.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Montalvan, Luis Carlos.
Summary: "We aren't just service dog and master; Tuesday and I are also best friends. Kindred souls. Brothers. Whatever you want to call it. We weren't made for each other, but we turned out to be exactly what the other needed ." A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis MontalvÁn never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011
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Montalván, Luis Carlos.
Summary: "Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the tight haircut. There is nothing about me--even the straight, stiff way I carry myself--that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my left...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4092 MONCaron, Leslie
Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIGSummary: A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STASummary: An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MILSummary: An animated musical version of Lewis Carroll's tale about a girl named Alice. Alice follows a White Rabbit through a very small door and enters Wonderland, where she has many unusual adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALISummary: A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRISummary: When Thumbelina, a tiny enchanted fairy, meets Prince Cornelius, she is sure she's found her heart's desire. But before their romance can blossom, she is kidnapped by a family of show business toads, detained by a scheming beetle and married to a befuddled mole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV THUEskridge, Don
Summary: The Resistance pits a small group of resistance fighters against a powerful and corrupt government. The resistance has launched a series of bold and daring missions to bring the governement to its knees. Unfortunately spies have infiltrated the resistance ranks, ready to sabotage the carefully crafted plans. Even a single spy can take down a resistance mission team, choose your teams carefully...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Oak Games, Inc. 2012