Summary: Post office manager Philippe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated south of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is sent instead to Nord-Pas de Calais. This northern province is known for its chilly dampness, its drunken, unemployable population, its terrible food and an impenetrable dialect known as Ch'timi. But Philippe soon learns to love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIESummary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANJerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bibliolis Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JERSummary: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHAChalfoun, Michelle
Summary: "An island adventure about a girl from the Bronx on a journey of mystery and discovery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Chalfoun 2016Summary: The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: "Eat me." This is not unusual, as the Seltzers are Cannibal-Americans, a once proud and thriving ethnic group, but for Seventh, it raises some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuslander, Shalom.
Summary: Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSChabot, Jacob
Summary: "Join Hello Kitty in her first-ever comic book adventures as she explores an underground realm, moonlights as an international super spy, climbs the Himalayas, travels back in time, and discovers that sometimes, the best place to get away from it all is between the pages of a good book." --Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people in this hilarious and action-packed adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2023
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Summary: ""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Charyn 2019Charyn, Jerome.
Summary: Brooklyn is dead. Long live the Bronx! In Bitter Bronx, Jerome Charyn returns to his roots and leads the literary renaissance of an oft--overlooked borough in this surprising new collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAPreisler, Jerome
Summary: The number one threat to our nation's security is in cyberspace. The new US president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organization can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack. Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PREChaon, Dan
Summary: "In 1983, Dustin Tillman's family--his parents and his aunt and uncle--were murdered in a shocking massacre. His foster brother, Rusty, was convicted of the crime, in a trial that was steeped in the "Satanic Cult" paranoia of the 1980s. Thirty years later, Rusty's conviction is overturned, and suddenly Dustin, now a psychologist, must question whether his testimony that imprisoned his brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChaon, Dan.
Contents: Safety man -- I demand to know where you're taking me -- Big me -- Prodigal -- Passengers, remain calm -- The illustrated encyclopedia of the animal kingdom -- Among the missing -- Prothesis -- Here's a little something to remember me by -- Late for the wedding -- Falling backwards -- Burn with me.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADeRoma, Mags.
Summary: One night, after a story, a snuggle, and one last sip of water, a little girl in a big city was getting so sleepy . . . when out of the corner of her eye--spider. Armed with odds and ends from around the room, the girl finds herself face-to-face with a huge, hairy beast. Will she banish the intruder?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DERCharyn, Jerome.
Summary: Traces the historic arc of Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACharyn, Jerome.
Summary: This comic masterpiece reimagines the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy, a heroic whorehouse madam, and a cunning George Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACharyn, Jerome.
Summary: What if the old maid of Amherst wasn't an old maid at all? The poet dons a hundred veils, alternately playing wounded lover, penitent, and female devil in this extraordinary adventure that will disturb and delight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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Summary: In Munich, a renowned computer scientist dies. Then, his daughter vanishes. Both under mysterious circumstances. Kali Alcazar, a master hacker, wants to know why. As she delves deeper into the suspicious events, she spots something in the sky, a rare, advanced drone, and realizes she's a target herself. A group of mercenary assassins has been assembled with just one goal: to stop Kali from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Preisler 2020Chabon, Michael.
Summary: A funny novel on two college friends who relive their youth by getting up to all sorts of tricks during a literary conference. One is a professor who is writing a novel, the other is his editor. Both left college with high hopes of making a name, hopes which have not materialized. By the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1995
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Summary: In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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Summary: "Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022