Preston, Paul
Summary: Describes the atrocities committed during the reign of General Francisco Franco, who executed tens of thousands of "non-persons" and abused women and children under a belief system comprised of eugenics, terror, domination, and mind control.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.08 PRESummary: Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOWHagio, Moto
Summary: "The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: 'To Juli, one last time. This is my love. This is the sound of my heart. Surely you must understand'"--Publisher's web site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HEASummary: Presents the phenomenon of the polar lights from various aspects. The film crew for this international production shot in Norway, Greenland, Canada, Alaska and New Zealand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AURPau Preto, Nicki
Summary: Veronyka, sixteen, leaves her controlling sister and disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors who ride phoenixes into battle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PAUPau Preto, Nicki
Summary: Seventeen-year-old failed ghost-fighting warrior, Wren, journeys to the haunted wasteland of the Breach to rescue a kidnapped prince and must team up with the very person responsible for the kidnapping.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAUContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRPau Preto, Nicki
Summary: "Veronyka, Tristan, and Sev must stop the advancing empire from destroying the Phoenix Riders"-- The world is balanced on the edge of a knife, and war is almost certain between the empire and the Phoenix Riders. Veronyka finally got her wish to join the Riders, but while she's supposed to be in training, all she really wants to do is fly out to defend the villages of Pyra from the advancing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAUPau Preto, Nicki
Summary: "Veronyka has been revealed as the heir to the empire, but to protect her people, she'll have to face the most devastating enemy she could imagine: her own sister"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021