Summary: The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASlaughter, Karin
Summary: On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLAPalmer, Michael
Summary: Dr. Lou Welcome must stop an epidemic, save his best friend, and uncover a shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors that has infiltrated society and is using health institutions as hostages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Palmer 2014Siddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: A smalltown girl, Smoky O'Donnell, moves to Atlanta to work for a magazine and becomes involved with three men: a rebellious photographer, a black freedom fighter, and the scion of an aristocratic Southern family. The civil rights movement serves as a background. By the author of Hill Towns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SIDWolfe, Tom.
Summary: A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLGrey, Melissa
Summary: "Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRETrocheck, Kathy Hogan
Summary: When she was a cop, Callahan Garrity trusted no one more than her partner, Bucky Deavers. Callahan gets a shock when she learns that Bucky was shot in a liquor store on his way home from a party. Callahan turns on all her skills to find the culprit and discovers accusations that Bucky might be working as an accomplice in a string of robberies. With her friend's life and reputation on the line,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROSummary: ATL refers to the airport designation for Atlanta. That's where orphaned 17-year-old Rashad lives with his younger brother Anton and uncle George. They're poor like most Southside families, but they're making ends meet, caring for each other and forging life-long friendships with guys like the smart, ambitious Esquire, transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn, and likable homeboy Teddy. On Sunday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLAKhan, Hena
Summary: As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Pervaiz wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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Summary: "Countdown to Doomsday: The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself--entering a host's body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELGreen, Tim
Summary: Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREMyracle, Lauren
Summary: Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Childrens Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYRSlaughter, Karin
Summary: GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SLABillings, Tanner
Summary: "What is biosecurity? It's the methods militaries use to protect us from biological attacks, and developing biosecurity systems, protocols, and technology requires the application of every area of STEM. As such, readers gain a stronger understanding of a variety of STEM concepts as they explore this exciting and essential topic. They learn how the things they learn in the classroom can applied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 358 BILRollins, James
Summary: While helping a former army colleague, who's on the run from assassins, Tucker Wayne and his military dog, Kane, must stop a psycho trying to commandeer all the resources of modern warfare.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Rollins 2016Werlin, Nancy
Summary: Planning is Zoe Rosenthal's superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn't sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to "save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WERCarr, Jack
Summary: "It's been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient - learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He's a young, popular, self-made visionary . . . but he's also a man with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARHerzog, Saul
Summary: "Prague, Czech Republic. A Russian assassin is activated to kill seemingly unconnected female staffers at the US embassy. What emerges is a plot as complex as it is terrifying. Against a backdrop of escalating Russian invasion preparations, a Romanian kill squad, a Kremlin honeytrap, and a Soviet-era biological weapons victim converge on an unsuspecting city, and an unprotected embassy with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorContact 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerzog, Saul
Summary: "Montana, USA. When Lance Spector quit the CIA, he swore he was out for good. One more government lie and he would go off the deep end. They could find someone else to do their dirty work. As far as he was concerned, Washington, Langley, the Pentagon could all go to hell. Yekaterinburg, Russia . A secret Russian expedition returns with a devastating new pathogen, harvested from the frozen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorContact 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRISawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Brendan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SAWAlexander, Tamera
Summary: From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene to better their lives and the lives of their families. Earn Marks is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. Alfred is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. Darius is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. Van is Earns best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019