Summary: Ever since Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was a little girl, the English have wanted her country and her crown. As a teenager, Mary is sent to France to wed its next king to save herself and her people. Waiting at the French Court is the gorgeous Prince Francis, his illegitimate half-brother Sebastian, a king on the brink of madness, a scheming queen, and the seer Nostradamus with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV REISummary: Hondo Lane, a cavalry rider, becomes the designated protector of Angie Lowe and her son, Johnny. Angie, who is waiting for the return of her brutish husband, refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing dangers from nearby warring Native American tribes. Angie's feelings begin to grow for Hondo, but she has no idea that her husband is dead and Hondo is the one who killed him. Special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN HONSummary: Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Weather 2006Summary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF KiBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELSummary: It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SCASummary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2008Bellows, Cathy.
Summary: A young toad who sees no point in what she learns at school soon discovers that the lessons are invaluable for getting through life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BELSummary: The true story of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, who volunteered for rescue duty and became trapped in the rubble of the Towers on September 11, 2001. The men became two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero. It is a story of the true heroes and of that fateful time in United States history, when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WORSummary: A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILHiggins, Jace
Summary: Sunny the bunny is finding it hard to say goodbye to home before she leaves for sleep away camp. When she decides to try new things at camp, Sunny discovers that new things can be fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGSummary: Set against the spectacular scenery of the Scottish Highlands, this immensely popular heart-warming drama centers around an ancient castle, a collection of tartan-clad eccentrics and the handsome new master of the improverished estate. Explore each season of the delightful drama from the arrival of young laird Archie MacDonald, his evolving romance with housekeeper Lexie, to the arrivel of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide America 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONBellow, Saul.
Summary: Collects stories featuring such characters as art critic Victor Wulpy, cheeerful and tragic Hattie Waggoner, and death-bed witness Dr. Braun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Enjoy two series of romances under one cover from authors Kimberley Comeaux and Cathy Marie Hake. First head to Springton, Texas, where two Texas belles - a pretty outcast and a shy nurse - find rattlesnakes easier to lasso than the hearts of the men they desire. Then join the Gregor brothers from Scotland - doctor, cobbler, lawman - as they settle in the Wild West, seeking wives to help them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONWake, Elliot
Summary: "Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he's got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus the scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares it bravely with the world; his fans love his honesty and positivity. But Ren has been living a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAKBellow, Saul.
Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBelloni, Giulia.
Summary: A determined sheep and his practical wolf friend try their hand at building a flying machine together, but when their plans don't work like they wanted, they must find a new way to make their dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owl Kids 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BELJanke, Katelan.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes an historical note about life in America in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DAJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Summary: The second volume in The Kent Family Chronicles, in which young Philip Kent, having escaped the murderous intentions of his half-brother in France, becomes caught up in the valor and turmoil of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJaye, Lola
Summary: Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYJaye, Lola.
Summary: A poignant and provocative story of adoption, self-discovery, and the meaning of family, Being Lara by author Lola Jaye ( By the Time You Read This ) is an unforgettable tale of three women—British mother, Nigerian birth mother, and 30-year-old daughter—the choices they made, and the fragile bond they try to create across time and continents. Intelligent and touching, Being Lara is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Jaye, Lola.
Summary: "Lara Reid knew she was an alien. What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word 'adopted'. Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake; a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYBellow, Saul.
Summary: Tommy Wilhelm tries to save himself from drowning under the weight of his own existence as his life comes apart around him after failing in his job, marriage, and investments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003