Summary: Christmas Surprise is a surprise-packed, imaginative novelty board book for pre-schoolers to get excited for Christmas and learn new vocabulary, with clever acetate pictures that change at the pull of a tab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Priddy Books 2019
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Summary: "A group of intrepid heroes must band together to save civilization after a long dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRBirmingham, John
Summary: A group of intrepid heroes must band together to save civilization after a long dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIRBirmingham, John
Summary: When a vast inexplicable energy wave wipes out ninety-nine percent of the U.S. population, the survivors struggle to meet the unimaginable challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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Summary: Dave Hooper has the hangover from hell, a demonic ex-wife and the claws of the tax office sinking into him. So the last thing he needs is an explosion at the off-shore oil rig where he works. But this is no ordinary industrial accident, and despite the news reports, Dave knows that terrorists aren't to blame for the disaster. He knows because he kills one of the things responsible. When he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: "Humanity's last remaining heroes must rebuild and protect civilization after a long dormant enemy shattered their once-peaceful empire in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars. The Sturm, a group of "species purists" intent on destroying any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements, returned from the far reaches of Dark Space to wage a war against humanity. Though their victory seemed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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Summary: On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, an energy wave of incredible power cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico, wiping 99% of the U.S. population from the face of the earth in the blink of an eye. In Seattle, at the very edge of the phenomenon, heroes must rise to meet the unimaginable challenges of food riots, mass panic, and terror. James Kipper, chief engineer of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRBirmingham, John
Summary: Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRGarcia, Karina
Summary: A humorous adventure comic featuring three friends who run their own slime shop and the slimes that come alive to help them. Includes slime recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify 2023
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Summary: When the Horde invades the seaside town where his sons live, monster-slayer Dave Hooper, with a female Russian assassin at his side, has to decide if he is going to continue to fight to save the major cities of the country or save his family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIRBirmingham, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRBillingham, Mark
Summary: Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORMarias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarra, Anthony
Summary: After America's entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father's past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARWeisenberg, Marit
Summary: Poppy doesn't know why her family has been running her whole life, but she does know that there are dire consequences if they're ever caught. Still, her curiosity grows each year, as does her desire for real friends and the chance to build on something, instead of leaving behind school projects, teams, and crushes at a moment's notice. When a move to California exposes a crack in her parents'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEISummary: In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOJBurlingham, Abigail
Summary: Find out what happens when a new dog moves next door to Grub, a very messy pup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books Inc 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC BURMaunakea, Malia
Summary: 12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best friend and places a curse on her family--one that only Lei can lift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAUMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Levin Crowdley stumbles upon evidence that suggests her adoring fiance is behind the murder of her childhood best friend, she knows fleeing from him is the only way to stay alive. But Alec won't be left that easily. In fact, nobody has ever left him and lived to tell. The moment Alec finds their dream home empty and Levin's engagement ring lying in the crib he'd purchased for the baby he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONAria, Max
Summary: The mighty warrior god Thor does battle against the evil Loki who plots to destroy the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Invincible Pictures 2020