Corfield, R. M.
Summary: Annotation "Sailing three-and-a-half years and 69,000 nautical miles, the story of Challenger is the stuff of legend. Scientists and crew alike braved the stifling heat of the tropics for months on end only to suffer the stupefying cold of the Antarctic, enduring danger on the high seas, and risking their very lives in the pursuit of knowledge. As the first sea voyage devoted exclusively to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joseph Henry Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 CORSummary: An ordinary woman must summon extraordinary courage to survive a nightmare odyssey in this harrowing survival thriller. Sawyer is an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. Suddenly, the young woman with everything to live for finds herself facing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUSSummary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GASContents: Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MITDeFrank, Thomas M.
Summary: In an series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after his death, the 38th President of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid. In 1974, journalist DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek, was interviewing Vice President Gerald R. Ford when Ford...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD DEFSummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROMartin, George R. R.
Summary: A collection of Wild Cards tales finds veteran ace John Fortune assembling a team of powerful mutants to assist the world's troubled regions, in a volume that includes contributions by such writers as Melinda Snodgrass, Carry Vaughn, and Stephen Leigh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUSMeluch, R. M. (Rebecca M.)
Summary: On the distant world of Zoe, an expedition finds DNA-based life. When alien invaders are also discovered, Glenn Hamilton calls on the U.S.S. Merrimack for help. But the Ninth Circle and the Palatine Empire have also found Zoe. Soon everyone will be on a collision course to determine the fate of this planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeluch, R. M. (Rebecca M.)
Summary: The U.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to survive attack by swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack for what they were about to face: three colonized worlds--the Myriad--in the midst of a globular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeluch, R. M. (Rebecca M.)
Summary: Military science fiction series set in the distant future, where Earth and her colony worlds have long been at battle with the Palatine Empire that has been building secret space stations. The USS Merrimack, under the command of Captain Farragut, must find and destroy these enemy bases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELSummary: "An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UPSummary: Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANNMeluch, R. M. (Rebecca M.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCarey, M. R.
Summary: "Alice loves to talk to her dolls, and her dolls and dollhouse love to talk back. When Alice is six, she is given a beautiful antique dollhouse. When things in her life get scary, Alice turns to her dolls and dollhouse for comfort. One day, they invite her to come play inside with them. As Alice's life is turned upside down in the 'big' world, she is always welcomed home to the little world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 CARCarey, M. R.
Summary: On a heroin bender, Jess Moulson set fire to her apartment complex. A ten-year-old boy died in the fire. Sentenced to spend the rest of her life in Fellside, a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire, Jess is haunted by the ghost of the boy she killed, as well as all the mistakes she has made in her life. When Jess decides not to run drugs for a fellow prisoner is she on the road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARO'Connor, M. R.
Summary: "At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision--especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNAM Gordon R Revel
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Publisher / Publication Date: DeSylva,Brown,Henderson 1932
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMontgomery, M. R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1755 MONMontgomery, M. R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1755 MONRyan, R. M.
Summary: There's a Man with a Gun Over There is an autobiographical novel based on R.M. Ryan's military experiences. An antiwar activist while in graduate school, he received a draft notice after the Tet offensive in 1968. Not interested in killing or being killed in Vietnam, he considered moving to Canada to avoid conscription. Before fleeing north, however, he met with an army recruiter, who promised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2015