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Balfe Spain Swain, Bernie Swain, Gwenyth Swain, James. Swain, Wilson. Tierney, Gene Twain, Mark Wolfe, Swain.Wolfe, Swain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLSummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINContents: Is that what love is all about? / Pete Wylie -- Every time a bell rings / Half Man Half Biscuit -- Liquid mercury / The Wild Swans -- Eyes of the moon / The Coral -- What a way to end it all / Deaf School -- The return of evil Bill / Clinic -- The punishment of luxury / Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark -- Heart shaped stone / Kathryn Williams -- Lucinda Byre / Michael Head & The Red Elastic...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSpain
Summary: This book is the collection of the artist's autobiographical short stories, memoirs of his misspent youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RODSummary: When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You're 2015Summary: A contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde fable, thirteen year old Arbor and Swifty are best friends for whom the joys of boyhood are almost nonexistent. They seek their fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal, leading to tragic consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELSummary: A disgraced doctor and his family are held hostage at their home by criminals on the run, when a robbery gone awry requires them to seek immediate medical attention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURTwain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BECTierney, Gene
Summary: An alluring but possessive woman marries a man she barely knows, then eliminates anyone who may come between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEASwain, James.
Summary: A specialist in finding missing persons, ex-cop Jack Carpenter is stunned when he is hired by convicted serial killer Abb Smith to find Smith's grandson, only to discover that the case involves Heather Rinker, a childhood friend of Jack's own daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASummary: Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRA1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRASummary: "In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMESwain, Bernie
Summary: Powerful and moving stories of inspiration, adversity, and triumph from the Washington Speakers Bureau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 SWASwain, James.
Summary: Ex-cop Tony Valentine heads for south Florida at the request of the security chief at Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino to uncover the crooks and hustlers who are preying on the local gamblers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASummary: Michel, who wrote poetry, and Harry, a rich spoiled brat, were school chums. Now twenty years later, Michel, who is married with three young girls, meets up with Harry on the way to Michel's summer home. Harry "forces" his way into their lives and nothing will be the same again. Trying to make Michel's life "easier", Harry embarks on a path that will become self-destructive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WITSummary: The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy her and her family's lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INHSwain, Gwenyth
Summary: Describes World War I, using the reader's choices to reveal historical details from the perspectives of a Belgian resistance fighter, a British soldier, and an American Field Service volunteer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 SWASwain, James.
Summary: When his ex-partner, Doyle Flanagan, is blown up by a car bomb, Tony Valentine joins the investigation to find his friend's killers and becomes embroiled in the multimillion-dollar blackjack scam that Flanagan had been trying to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASwain, James.
Summary: A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he's living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASwain, Wilson.
Summary: Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included. This is no ordinary Nutcracker . . .This time, it s Fritz s story. The traditional Nutcracker tale gets turned on its head in this rollicking Christmas adventure, based on the hit musical 'A Nutcracker Christmas' by the popular children s rock star Ralph Covert (Ralph s World) and playwright G. Riley Mills. Includes a CD of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2009
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Summary: A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2002