LaValle, Victor D.
Summary: "Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVLaValle, Victor D.
Summary: "People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVLaValle, Victor D.
Summary: Ricky Rice is a middle-aged, middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a letter arrives, reminding him of a vow he once made and summoning him to Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom to fulfill it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS LAVLaValle, Victor D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSLaValle, Victor D.
Summary: Landing in a budget-strapped mental institution after being accused of a crime he does not remember, Pepper is assaulted by a monstrous creature that has been attacking patients but that the hospital staff does not believe exists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVSantos, Victor D. O.
Summary: "This illustrated riddle introduces children to language's impact on human culture and history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: A father tries to understand the reasons for his teenage son's suicide by seeking out the young man's friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bayview Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLEOesterheld, H. G. (Héctor Germán)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE OESSummary: When the mysterious deaths of a series of loyal subjects threaten to delay the coronation of Empress Wu Zetian, she summons brilliant detective and former dissident Dee back from the exile she imposed on him eight years earlier. Based on the Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vicol 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DETSummary: As the New Year begins, a terrifying evil is stirring, from across the centuries of Earth's history. As the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz return home, will they be able to overcome the threat to planet Earth?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCChau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHAWau Wau Collectif
Contents: Indhold: Le Paix du Senegal(3:07 min) -- Baye Kate / Babacar "Babadi" Diol, lead vocals(1:35 min) -- Mariage Forcé / Ndikou Diouf, lead vocals(4:30 min) -- Thiaroye 1944 / Mouhamodou Lo, lead vocals(2:51 min) -- Xale / children from Toubab Dialaw, vocals(3:40 min) -- Le Repaire Spirituel / Arouna Kane, lead vocals(3:12 min) -- Yay Balma(3:30 min) -- Pitchou Goudibi(2:20 min) -- Nécessaire /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sahel Sounds 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: These three classic Charlie Chan mysteries made by famed B-movie titans Monogram pictures gives us two different Charlies in the persons of Sidney Toler (The Red Dragon) and Roland Winters (The Feathered Serpent, The Sky Dragon), but both styles of supersleuth must tackle truly draconian mysteries and murder. The Red Dragon finds Charlie (Toler) and Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) cracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHAFactor
Contents: Out of the same thing (feat. the Gaff) -- One record -- Home again (feat. Nomad) -- More rude than handsome (feat. Awol One) -- The leen (feat. Josh Martinez) -- Electric furs of a lynx (feat. Noah 23) -- Moonlight (feat. Josh Fischel) -- Lonely city (feat. Moka Only) -- New day -- Time of the year (feat. Sadat X) -- Good old Smokey (my kanine [sic]) (feat. Myka 9) -- On my way (feat. Kirby...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fake Four 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP FACChang, Victoria
Summary: "A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "In this ode to hardworking mommies everywhere, they may not always be fun or neat, but their toddlers love them no matter what"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHAEscandell, Vaictor
Summary: "Channel your inner Sherlock as you puzzle over 20+ mind-twisting brain teasers in this book of clever, inference-based mysteries."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zahori Books 2019
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Summary: The rap duo UGK, featuring Pimp C and Bun B, includes a large array of guest artists and producers, from Rick Ross and Slim Thug to Lil' Jon and Swizz Beatz.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jive 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP UNDHerbert, Victor
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chas. K. Harris 1908
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Kristy's family moves to a new neighborhood where the kids make fun of Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. The Baby-sitters are not going to let them get away with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021