Dahm, Evan
Summary: "A graphic novel retelling of Jesus Christ's descent into Hell between the crucifixion and resurrection"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 DAHArchambault, Brigitte
Summary: "A woman lives alone in a small house situated in a tidy yard surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. She spends her days reading, swimming, and watching TV. She eats regular meals and keeps her house clean. But the simplicity is deceiving, because the woman has no idea how she came to live in her house, and--most importantly-what exists beyond the wall. Her only source of information is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BDANG 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ARCSwift, Jonathan
Summary: A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered. A voyage in those days was not a pleasant thing, and a traveller was likely to encounter mysterious islands and strange people. Danger lurked around every corner, and friends and foes are to be found unexpectedly, and in equal measure. When Lemeul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welbeck Editions 2021
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Summary: Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1974
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Summary: It is at once a vision of the other world, an allegory of Christian life, a spiritual autobiography, and a cyclopaedic embodiment of all knowledge of its day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 DANCoetzee, J. M.
Summary: From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coetzee 2016Himaruya, Hidekaz
Summary: "All your favorite countries return for more silly adventures in the sixth installment of Hetalia Axis Powers! In this volume, Finland wants to make the Baltic Three a Baltic Duo, the micronations search far and wide for new friends, and Seychelles gets a mysterious visitor from the African mainland! Then the cats of Nekotalia return!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HETFisher, Suzanne Woods.
Summary: At Eagle Hill, an Amish bed and breakfast created in the converted basement of Rose Schrock's farmhouse, guests arrive with their worries and leave with their problems solved in surprising ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fisher 2013Johnson, Denis
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHMann, Kyle
Summary: "Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother's death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch's shoddily installed video projector falls on his head--sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. After a narrow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCoetzee, J. M.
Summary: "A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coetzee 2013Fisher, Suzanne Woods.
Summary: Twenty-year-old Bethany Schrock is restless. Her love life has derailed, her faith hangs by a thread, and she is spending the incredibly hot summer days wading through a lifetime's accumulation of junk at the home of five ancient Amish sisters. About the only thing that holds her interest is the spirited and dangerously handsome Jimmy Fisher--and he seems bent on irritating her to no end. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fisher 2014Giuffre, Katherine Anne
Summary: The Drunken Spelunker’s Guide to Plato is based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave from The Republic. In this novel, the Cave is a dank basement bar in the small Southern town of Waterville, overflowing with cheap beer, good blues, and local oddballs. There’s Vera, the tough but tender owner; Pancho, the philosophical piano tuner; Billy Joe, the former rising star back home after a stop in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIUHawke, Ethan
Summary: "It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHimaruya, Hidekaz
Summary: Offers a collection of four-panel comic strips which, depicting the world's powers as stereotypes, presents a politically incorrect comedy of the relationships between the Axis and Allied powers during the World Wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HETKinney, Anne-Marie.
Summary: Radio Iris deals with watercooler culture in an artful and existential way, delivering an eerie allegory of our modern recession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINLeach, Amy
Summary: In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodies{u2014}considering the similarity of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of love and vines, the relations of exploding stars to exploding sea cucumbers{u2014}Amy Leach rekindles a vital communion with the wild world, dormant for far too long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 LEAMartel, Yann.
Summary: In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION MelvilleOrwell, George
Summary: Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an english country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Orwell 1987Peretti, Frank E.
Summary: Sally Beth Roe finds herself in the middle of several bizarre events which include an attempted murder, a case of mistaken identity, and a lawsuit against a struggling Christian school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PerSummary: This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 1999
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Summary: "An explosive novel about the chaos of revolution, Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe--Zimbabwe's president who took office in 1980 and...never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BULCoelho, Paulo.
Summary: Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011