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Adult children of aging parents Fiction Fire stations Massachusetts Boston Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Neighbors Fiction Prosopagnosia Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Veterinarians Fiction Wilderness survival Fiction Women artists FictionCarter, Peter.
Summary: After being forced from his meager family farm in Texas in 1871, thirteen-year-old Ben Curtis witnesses some of the excitement and cruelty of the Old West--on a cattle drive, in a frontier town, and on a buffalo hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut and maybe finding true love; Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth; Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too 'soft' hanging with his pals; and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ICECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICE RATED PGCash, Johnny
Summary: The Essential Johnny Cash was issued to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. All of his very biggest hits are here in this 2-disc, 36 track collection.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines the origin and geological evolution of the earth, focusing on the various cataclysmic transformations that occurred through time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSummary: Set during the tumultuous time of North American colonization, this gripping drama follows the lives of four young people: Abe Goffe, Beth Fanshawe, Ned Hawkins, and Hope Russell, as they fight for a better future in the wilderness of the New World and back home in England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWX-TG (Musical group)
Contents: Desertshore. Janitor of lunacy (Antony Hegarty, vocals) -- Abschied (Blixa Bargeld, vocals) -- Afraid (Sasha Grey, vocals) -- The falconer (Marc Almond, vocals) -- All that is my own (Cosey Fanni Tutti, vocals) -- Mütterlein (Blixa Bargeld, vocals) -- Le petit chevalier (Gaspar Noé, vocals) -- My only child (Cosey Fanni Tutti, vocals) -- Desertshores (large ensemble, vocals).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK X-TGHancock, Herbie
Contents: Riot (4:37) / Ron Carter -- Speak like a child (7:47) / Herbie Hancock -- First trip (5:59) / Herbie Hancock -- Toys (5:50) / Herbie Hancock -- Goodbye to childhood (7:04) / Herbie Hancock -- The sorcerer (5:34) / Herbie Hancock -- Riot (1st alternate take) (4:38) / Ron Carter -- Riot (2nd alternate take) (4:38) / Ron Carter -- Goodbye to childhood (alternate take) (5:49) / Herbie Hancock.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HANCOSummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUIPaster, Emily
Summary: Whether your goal is to start your own community food swap, or just make delicious treats to share with family and friends, this is the book you need! Part cookbook, part how-to guide, Food Swap features more than 80 recipes for artisanal items that will be coveted at food swaps and adored as gifts, including preserves, baked goods, granolas, cheeses, pestos, roasted nuts, flavored salts, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PASPaster, Emily
Summary: A celebration of delicious foods from Jewish cooks. Learn about one of the most vital subtopics in Jewish cooking: preserved foods. Jewish cooks, even casual ones, are proud of the history of preserved foods in Jewish life, from the time of living in a desert two millennia ago to the era in which Jews lived in European ghettoes with no refrigeration during the last century. In a significant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 PASCarver, Peter.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, behaviors and habitats of crocodiles and kangaroos
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1990
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 591Center, Katherine
Summary: "Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCenter, Katherine
Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Center, Katherine.
Summary: Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby--in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiance, Dean, started their family earlier than planned. But then one night Dean runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, and the very next day, Jenny goes into labor. She never anticipated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CenteCenter, Katherine
Summary: "Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas-the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter-a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Center 2020Center, Katherine
Summary: "Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she's celebrating the biggest achievement of her life--placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition--the next she's lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a "probably temporary" condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CENCenter, Katherine
Summary: "She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies-good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Center, Katherine
Summary: "Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas - the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter - a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCenter, Katherine.
Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, Danny, Libby went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is a deep, country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENBetter Oblivion Community Center (Musical group)
Contents: Didn't know what I was in for -- Sleepwalkin' -- Dylan Thomas -- Service road -- Exception to the rule -- Chesapeake -- My city -- Forest lawn -- Big black heart -- Dominos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BETCenter, Katherine
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CenterCenter, Katherine
Summary: Sadie Montgomery suddenly went from being a finalist in an art competition to being diagnosed with a "face blindness." Struggling to cope, she falls in love with not one man but two. The timing couldn't be worse.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION CENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CENCenter, Katherine
Summary: From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CENCenter, Katherine
Summary: When her estranged, ailing mother asks her to move to Boston, firefighter Cassie Hanwell becomes the only woman in her new firehouse, where she faces discrimination, low funding, and her unwanted attraction to a fellow firefighter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019