McLaughlin, Danielle S.
Summary: Mayor Moe and the councillors of the City often need to come up with new laws to keep things ticking along smoothly. But what happens when they don't agree about the solution to a problem? In each story the councillors are presented with a problem, and the group then makes a decision to address the problem with a new law, only to discover later there were unintended consequences in each instance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73 MCLMcLaughlin, Danielle
Summary: A debut collection from a deeply original writer and observer of love, betrayal, and turning points in ordinary peoples' lives. In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go out with his brother, late one night, on a mysterious job she realizes she isn't supposed to know about. A man gets a call at work from his sister-in-law, saying that his wife and his daughter never made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLWisnia, David S.
Summary: "This powerful memoir takes the reader from a peaceful home in Sochaczew to terror in Auschwitz-Birkenau and lastly to the safety of the Screaming Eagles. David Wisnia, a child singing star, was the middle child in a family of five. His father was a prosperous furniture manufacturer; his mother a contented housewife. After the family moved to Warsaw, David's family happily celebrated his Bar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ComteQ Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WISAllen, Danielle S.
Summary: "A social science professor from Princeton University describes what she learned about freedom and equality when she and her students read the text of the Declaration of Independence from start to finish" --Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ALLSummary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRISummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: An alien crashes deep into the oilfields of New Mexico with a mission: he must find the brilliant scientist Justin Falls, the one woman on earth who can help save his species. An unlikely duo, together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours. An inspired continuation of the novel by Walter Tevis and the iconic 1976 film starring David Bowie. This three-disc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: A group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve, and Santa must save Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIOSummary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ONEBurt, Daniel S.
Summary: "The standard guides to historical fiction of all times and places are very out-of-date. Ernest Baker's Guide to Historical Fiction was published in 1914 and the tenth edition of Leonard B. Irwin's Guide to Historical Fiction, the most recent comprehensive guide, was published in 1971 (and is currently out of print). Consequently, this new set, an annotated bibliography of some 7000 historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale 1997
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 808.63 BURHamermesh, Daniel S.
Summary: Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrates how society favors the beautiful and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HAMHamermesh, Daniel S.
Summary: Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, which studies scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given competing demands as we have more things we can buy and do, Spending Time provides engaging insights into how people use their time and what determines their decisions about spending their time
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HAMPierce, Daniel S.
Summary: "In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the twentieth-century movement to create a national park." "Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials, Pierce presents the most balanced account available of the development of the park. He tells how park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 PIEPierce, Daniel S.
Summary: In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Following NASCAR founder Big Bill France from his start as a mechanic, Real NASCAR details the sport's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 PIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.72 PIEBurt, Daniel S.
Summary: "The standard guides to historical fiction of all times and places are very out-of-date. Ernest Baker's Guide to Historical Fiction was published in 1914 and the tenth edition of Leonard B. Irwin's Guide to Historical Fiction, the most recent comprehensive guide, was published in 1971 (and is currently out of print). Consequently, this new set, an annotated bibliography of some 7000 historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale 1997
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 808.63 BURMacLaughlin, Nina.
Summary: "Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist--Carpenter's Assistant: Women strongly encouraged to apply--despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in Hammer Head she tells the rich...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACLAUGHLIN, NINA MACBurt, Daniel S.
Summary: "The standard guides to historical fiction of all times and places are very out-of-date. Ernest Baker's Guide to Historical Fiction was published in 1914 and the tenth edition of Leonard B. Irwin's Guide to Historical Fiction, the most recent comprehensive guide, was published in 1971 (and is currently out of print). Consequently, this new set, an annotated bibliography of some 7000 historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale 1997
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 808.63 BURDavis, Daniel S.
Summary: Discusses the forced internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, their way of life there, and their eventual assimilation into society following the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5317 DAVSummary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Guitarist Vlad attends Camp Ovation, the summer theater camp for budding actors, dancers, and musicians. Finding himself to be one of the only straight boys around, he soon befriends Ellen. Meanwhile, openly gay Michael develops a crush on him. This sparks dramatic confrontations among fellow campers Jenna, Jill, and Fritzi. The whole camp is run by Bert Hanley, a washed-up Broadway songwriter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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Summary: Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa in the late 1990s, and he has a problem-- someone is altering the video tapes, inserting poorly lit home video scenes which are odd, sometimes violent, and deeply disquieting. There are recognizable landmarks from just outside of town. As Jeremy investigates, he becomes part of an impossible search for something someone once lost-- and would do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARSummary: "College kids seeking a weekend of kicks have made a horrible mistake. They've come to party at eerie Crystal Lake, the deadly domain of machete-mad killer Jason Voorhees. Terror goes to extremes in this reimagining of the Jason legend for today's horror fan. Enter for the first time the subterranean lair that is Jason's den of torture and fear. See him discover the mask that hides his deformed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Productions 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 DANS Rice A Brown C Daniels
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calumet 1939