Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Summary: When twelve-year-old Franny's estranged uncle comes home to help out after Nana's accident, some long-guarded family secrets come to light, forcing Franny to confront the discoveries she makes about her troubled absent mother, and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUCary, Mara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 CARSummary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGMacColl, Ewan.
Contents: disc 1. Schooldays over (Damien Dempsey) ; I'm champion at keeping 'em rolling (Martin Carthy) ; Cannily, Cannily (The Unthanks) ; The shoals of herring (Seth Lakeman) ; The exile song (Marry Waterson) ; The young birds (Jack Steadman & Jamie MacColl (Bombay Bicycle Club)) ; Jamie Foyers (Dick Gaughan) ; Thirty-foot trailer (Eliza Carthy) ; My old man (Chaim Tannenbaum) ; Dirty old town (Steve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Records 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OFagan, Cary
Summary: "Thing-Thing was neither a Teddy bear nor a rabbit; not a stuffed dog or cat. It was something like each of those, and nothing at all you could name. But it had something special. It had hope that one day it would find a child to love it and talk to it and make it tea parties and take it to bed..."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FAGCarty-Williams, Candice
Summary: "'[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.'--Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You; Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Carty-Williams 2019Summary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWICary, Jere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.16 CARElwes, Cary
Summary: From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4 ELWFagan, Cary.
Summary: When Ella May finds a stone with a line going all the way around it, she decides a stone so special must grant wishes, but when her friends want to join in the fun she must use her imagination to make everyone's wishes come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FAGGrant, Cary
Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ruth Stoops is pregnant, confused and in trouble with the law for the umpteenth time. But it doesn't stop there. She soon becomes the unwitting object of a wacky tug-of-war that erupts when pro-lifers square off with pro-choicers and everyone goes to ridiculous extremes trying to claim her as a national symbol for their cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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Summary: You step out onto the field. The crowd roars and shouts your name. You're about to play your first game at...Spartan Stadium. Are you Michigan State's biggest fan? Then this story is for you!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARCary, Lorene
Summary: Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARY CARCary, Lorene.
Summary: In 1855, a Southern slave abandons her child to obtain freedom. She is Ginnie of Virginia who escapes while with her master in Philadelphia. The novel portrays her hiding from slave catchers, agonizing over the son she left behind and reinventing herself as Mercer Grey to become a famous abolitionist. By the author of Black Ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARIsenberg, Marty
Summary: Starlord and Gamora are being taken to see Thanos with the mystery box that only Starlord can open. Their friends rescue them only to come face to face with Thanos himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GUAKelley, Marty
Summary: "Fourth-grader Stevie Blunt is a huge comic book fan--and he's just found a rare copy of the first issue of Captain Fantastic, featuring a "Top Secret Superhero Training Journal." Now, all he has to do is dig up the money to pay for it. When a neighbor needs a last-minute dog sitter for her beloved pug, Stevie transforms into Commander Universe, ready to be the hero this citizen needs (and earn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KELKelley, Marty.
Summary: Grownups who wax nostalgic about their youth are given a visual tour through twelve terrible experiences of childhood, including bedtime monsters and "atomic wedgies."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Kelley 2008MacLeod, Marty
Summary: An A-to-Z tour de force, from Arnold's Bookstore, Brady's, and Cone Drive through the locally filmed Zombie movie. Land mines and cigar rolling, life-sized cartoons, casketmakers, and an experimental submarine—it's all part of Old Towne's fascinating story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Street Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 MAC1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 MAC
Robbins, Marty.
Contents: I'll go on alone -- Singing the blues -- White sport coat and a pink carnation -- Story of my life -- Just married -- El Paso -- Don't worry -- Devil woman -- Ruby Ann -- Begging to you -- Ribbon of darkness -- Tonight Carmen -- I walk alone -- My woman, my woman, my wife -- Among my souvenirs -- Some memories just won't die.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Legacy 1998