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Strugatsky, Boris.

Summary: From the Russian masters of sci-fi comes The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, a hilarious spoof on the classic country-house murder mystery. When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016

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Karloff, Boris

Summary: There is a mad butler in a house where travelers stranded by a storm seek refuge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLD

Fishman, Boris

Summary: When their adopted eight-year-old son Max suddenly turns feral, Maya Shulman convinces her husband, Alex, to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents, which results in unexpected consequences and life-altering changes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIS

Vian, Boris

Summary: Dans un univers mêlant quotidien et onirisme, ce premier roman conte les aventures de Colin, de Chick, d’Alise et de la belle Chloé. Deux histoires d’amour s’entremêlent : Colin est un jeune homme élégant, rentier, qui met fin à son célibat en épousant Chloé, rencontrée à une fête, tandis que son ami Chick, fanatique transi du philosophe vedette Jean-Sol Partre, entretient une relation avec...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pauvert 1997

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VIA FRENCH

Akunin, B. (Boris)

Summary: As the terrifying figure of a Black Monk stalks the inhabitants of the centuries-old island monastery of New Ararat, Sister Pelagia, forbidden from visiting New Ararat because of traditions that forbid women, goes undercover to reveal the truth about who--or what--is responsible.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKU

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

Summary: Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Pasternak

Akunin, B. (Boris)

Summary: It is 1877 and Erast Fandorin must locate a spy within the Russian army ranks who threatens to change the course of the war.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005

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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

Summary: Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 1958

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAS

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

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Summary: "Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom The New York Review of Books declared, "the English-speaking world is indebted." First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy--the novel was banned in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PAS

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Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Summary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAR

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Strugatsky, Arkady

Summary: Originally written in 1974, Definitely Maybe is here presented in its first ever unexpurgated edition. Its protagonist, Dmitry Alekseyevich Malyanov is an astrophysicist; just as he begins to realise that he is on the verge of a revolutionary discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize, his life becomes plagued by strange events. Malyanov suspects that his discovery is in the way of someone (or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Summary: In the spring of 1864, a desperate young farmers wife enlists in the Confederate Army posing as a man. She must battle the Union Army, the men of her unit and her own identity in the quest to find her missing husband.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIN

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: In the midst of the presidential election, tensions mount in the White House as Frank and Claire continue to navigate their political careers and redefine their relationships, particularly with each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOU RATED R

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Banks, Kate

Summary: A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BAN

Summary: During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region. A story of a man who nearly changed the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THI

Summary: Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Summary: For Life is a fictional serialised legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOR

Summary: "TV rarities lost and found"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Something Weird Video 2001

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEI

Banks, Kate

Summary: When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BAN

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