Summary: After deadly terrorists abduct his niece at a soccer match, an ex-soldier with lethal fighting skills wages a one-man war to save her and prevent mass destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FINSummary: Years after he fought his way out of prison, Ray Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from to save his friend from the prison's brutal human battleground, known as Hades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EsShriver, Lionel
Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When her massively overweight brother, a once slim, hip New York Jazz pianist, comes for a visit, Pandora is forced to choose between her exercise fanatic husband and her brother, who desperately needs her support in losing weight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Lionel.
Summary: From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the siblings last saw each other, the once slim, hip...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: After the death of Mr. and Mrs. McCrea, their three children inherit a gorgeous mansion on the North Carolina coast. Corlis McCrea, the middle and only daughter, must devise a way to deceive her brothers and make the inheritance hers alone.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRShriver, Lionel
Summary: Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Lionel
Summary: Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Lionel
Summary: "Ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word ... These pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships"--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Lionel.
Summary: Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRBattista, Brianna
Summary: "Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. What do you do if you love playing and watching the sport, but don't want to be a professional athlete? This book explores the action-packed career of a soccer referee. From how she prepares for a soccer game to the fast-paced decisions she must make during the game, a day in the life of a referee is filled with intensity and fun. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.32Baptiste, Tracey
Summary: Bianca Cooper escapes into the world of Minecraft after getting into a terrible car accident. Soon, however, she realizes she is trapped inside the game, and the in-game characters who have been attacking her resemble figures from her real life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JT Series Mine BaptistePaul, Baptiste
Summary: "When a young child reminds her dad about the hike they planned, her father is hesitant...It's a great day to watch futbol (soccer). But as the two climb on, her enthusiasm is contagious"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2022
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Summary: "From saying hello and pronouncing your friend's name correctly to giving more than you take and saying I'm sorry, this simple concept book explores definitions of peace and actions small and big that foster it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAUBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPBaptiste, Tracey.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAPPaul, Baptiste
Summary: "From saying hello and pronouncing your friend's name correctly to giving more than you take and saying I'm sorry, this simple concept book explores definitions of peace and actions small and big that foster it."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX PAUShriver, Lionel
Summary: It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Lionel
Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEShriver, Lionel.
Summary: Sent to a Portuguese backwater where a homegrown terrorist movement has recently emerged, foreign correspondent Edgar Kellogg hopes to make a name for himself, but soon discovers that things are not what they seem.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRLionni, Leo
Summary: Four titles previously published independently, three of which were Caldecott honor books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIOLinney, Laura
Summary: Two adult children of an elderly, cantankerous man must come together to care for their father despite that fact they have not spoken to him or each other in years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVLitzenburger, Liesel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITLionni, Leo
Summary: Mice discover such places as trees, boxes, shoes, and mouseholes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2014