Nies, Judith

Summary: Describes the darker side of the history of Las Vegas and Black Mesa, Arizona, including the relocation of fifteen thousand Navajo to mine coal for cheap electricity for the Vegas Strip and the precipitous drop in the water level of Lake Mead. An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.3135 NIE

Summary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Gies, Miep

Summary: An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 GIE

Gies, Miep

Summary: Hiding Otto Frank and his family in an Amsterdam office building during World War II, Miep Gies shares a remarkable story of courage and devastation along with the special friendship of a young girl whose memory remains in hearts across the world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2008

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 GIE

Summary: "A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cimarron

Summary: A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOU

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Summary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007

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Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Aries

Contents: Lágrimas I -- Eclipse total -- La fuerza del sonido -- Nieve de noche -- Memorias -- En el océano -- Nuestra casa -- El paseo -- Lágrimas II -- Adieu or die.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Kwes.

Contents: Purplehands -- 36 -- Rollerblades -- Cablecar -- Flower -- Hives -- Broke -- Chagall -- Parakeet -- B_shf_l.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warp Records 2013

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Little, Judithe

Summary: Raised by pious nuns, Antoinette, the younger sister of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, escapes to Paris, where her shared effort to launch a fashion brand is challenged by discriminating conventions and the horrors of World War I.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIT

NILES, BLAIR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1946

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.082 NIL

Nieh, Daniel

Summary: A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur, in fact he was part of a vast international...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Nieh 2019

Kiss.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simstan Music 0000

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Hives

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2020

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Kies, Thomas

Summary: It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper.The Sheffield Post headline shouts, "Cops Call Murder Scene 'Slaughterhouse." On the scene, Genie spurs the Deputy Police Chief to tell her quietly, "Six bodies...all nude...hacked...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIE

Nieh, Daniel

Summary: "A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIE

Summary: Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABO

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ABO

Fies, Brian

Summary: "Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 FIE

Gies, Frances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609.409 GIE

Kies, Thomas

Summary: The newshound in Geneva Chase spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Ant then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters and thus, out of the news. Out on the crime...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIE