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Summary: Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANSummary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIVSummary: Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOU5 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUSummary: In season two, stolen kisses, and jealous outbursts abound. While Spain's wealthiest and most beautiful women continue to be attracted by the sensuality of Velvet Galleries' garments, it's seduction that seems to drive the store's highly competitive management. Alberto, heir to the Velvet fortune, has married a socialite rather than Ana, the love of his life. She, too, is aware that her lowly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mhz Networks Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VELSummary: In season one, the owner of Velvet Galleries presents his son Alberto, newly returned from London after years of training away from the family and away from his illicit love affair with a humble seamstress, Ana Rivera. Alberto's return and his reunion with Ana will reawaken family tensions, but this time Alberto is willing to fight for Ana as he did not fight in the past. The two lovers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mhz Networks Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VELTodd, Anna
Summary: "A good girl-- a bad boy-- something undeniable-- and everything after. Tessa Young is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother determined to keep her on course. But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin Scott, with his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos. He's good looking, confident, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, a division of Wattpad Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AFTTodd, Anna
Summary: "As good girl Tessa Young embarks on her first year of college at Washington Central University, she has direction, ambition and a new circle of friends who are always trying to push her beyond her comfort zone. Chief among them is fellow student, campus bad boy - and son of the University's Chancellor- Hardin Scott, who has simultaneously enraged and seduced her. Tessa can hardly abide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, a division of Wattpad Corp. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 AFTSummary: The search begins. For the mistress and the son of a mob boss. For Barry 'Bottomless Pit' Rosen, missing soon after he won a competitive chili-eating contest. For an air traffic controller who reported possible terrorist activity. For a basketball star, a stripper, a victim of Hurricane Katrina. Some of them are reunited with loved ones. Some remain forever missing. All are part of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this graphic novel loosely based on H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds," armed unicorns in a huge spaceship invade the peaceful mermaid planet of Ocea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: Chef and television personality Aarón Sánchez recounts his formative years and how he fell in love with the culinary world. From a summer spent in New Orleans with Paul Prudhomme during his adolescent years, to a short-lived stint in culinary school, to ups and downs in New York City's ever-changing restaurant scene, and ultimately to the dizzying world of food television, Sánchez draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCHEZ, AARON SANFforde, Jasper.
Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOClausen, Casper
Contents: Used to think -- Feel it coming -- Dark heart -- Snow white -- Falling apart like you -- Little words -- 8 bit human -- Ocean wave.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CLASanche, Heather
Summary: "In this charming tale for kids, the classic life story of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is told along beautiful illustrations. The book goes through his childhood to his enlightenment, chronicling the ups and downs he faced along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bala Kids, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUDG. Love
Contents: Ride -- Ain't that right -- Hot cookin' -- Can't go back to Jersey -- Missing my baby -- Holla! -- Banger / feat. Blackalicious and Lateef the Truth Speaker -- Thanks and praise / feat. Jasper -- Let the music play / feat. Ben Harper and Marc Broussard -- Free -- Beautiful / feat. Tristan Prettyman -- Rainbow / feat. Jack Johnson -- Breakin' up -- Still hangin' around.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brush Fire Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK G.LOBix, Jasper.
Summary: Even on the coldest winter days its easy to have fun outside! Early readers learn all they need is a pair of ice skates and a bit of patience, and they can enjoy the winter weather in style. From lacing up a pair of skates tightly to wearing a helmet for safety, readers learn all the basics needed to get on the ice and give skating a try for themselves! Accessible text presented alongside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE BIXFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The threat of all-out Genre war looms over BookWorld. But with the real Thursday Next retired in the real world, the Council of Genres has no other choice than to tap the fictional Thursday to save the day. Her mission as emissary is to prevent the brewing war--but her task is made more difficult by a hidden foe manipulating events.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2008
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Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper
Summary: "There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper
Summary: "Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision--segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Detective Jack Spratt, recently unable to convict three wily pigs in he murder of a certain wolf, meets the challenge of a new case when Humpty Dumpty is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shady part of town.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been dispatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2004