Chambers, Veronica.
Summary: A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHASummary: Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FOUWilliams, Mark
Summary: Set in a 1950s English village, Father Brown uses theology and his love and understanding of other people to solve crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beginning six years after season four, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression--a stark contrast with the Roaring Twenties. With the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimize himself by forging alliances with liquor producers, including Bacardi in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOASummary: "The year is now 1954 and the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford sees new faces join Father Brown's team of sleuths. The dashing Chief Inspector Sullivan is back and proves a pleasant distraction for Mrs Devine, Father Brown's lively new Parish Secretary, while plucky new housekeeper Brenda helps the priest's crime solving. With royal visits, kidnappings and notorious gangsters to contend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Studios 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV FATSummary: The irreverent portrayal of the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina, an ambitious TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie, friends Sammy and Troy, and an ambitious video executive, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Reality 2004Summary: Welcome back to the village of Kembleford, where Father Brown uses his personal blend of intuition, psychology, compassion and justice to solve another series of gripping crimes. Assisted as always by parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, glamorous socialite Lady Felicia Montague and her accommodating chauffeur Sid Carter Father Brown faces threats to his town, his friends and his faith. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fa 3-2Summary: Greek fisherman Demetrios guides a lost princess home to Atlantis, but is imprisoned there and must fight for his life, before rescuing the princess again as they flee the doomed realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY ATLSummary: It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Anderson, Poul
Summary: The author creates a fantastic history of humankind in which a few naturally immortal beings find themselves, over millions of years, alienated from an evolving human race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDPauw, Marion
Summary: A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a demanding boss, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental, aloof mother. Just a few years ago, Iris was confident and in control. But every day since Aaron’s birth, she’s condemned herself for being a failure—a bad parent who cannot cope with a difficult child. Though she loves her son fiercely, she despairs over his intense outbursts, which are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUChambers, Becky
Summary: Lovelace was once merely a ships artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who is determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: Ten-year-old larger-than-life Flora Violeta LeFevre uses humor and a little mischief to navigate her best friend moving away, her sister's overbearing and all-consuming quince preparations, and a surprising new friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAChambers, Becky
Summary: ""Tender and healing... I'm prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary." -Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAPauls, Chris
Summary: After summer, Charlie Lawson expects to go back to the boredom of middle school, but he stumbles on an abandoned warehouse, where he befriends a twenty-foot-tall teenage giant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Pauls 2016Pauli, Lorenz.
Summary: When Fox goes to the library looking for mice, Mouse offers fox a book so that he will get new ideas -- like wanting to eat chickens. But when the chicken-eating, fox-hunting farmer walks into the library, Fox and Chicken think fast and come up with a surprising solution that just might save them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAUChambers, Becky
Summary: Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers a bed, a chance to explore the galaxy, and some distance from her past. The crew is diverse: Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot; chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, the captain. They are offered a job tunneling wormholes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: When Gretchen Tilbury claims that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, Jean Swinney, a feature writer on a local paper, sets out to prove whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud-an investigation that sends dark ripples across all their lives with unimaginable consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChambers, Essie
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Pauls, Alan.
Summary: The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with money, and the economy of an entire country goes insane without hope of recovery, a centrifuge created by inflation and financial irrationality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUAnderson, Poul
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDAnderson, Poul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timescape Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDRuiz, Raul
Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYPGaus, Paul L.
Summary: " P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries continue to "probe the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In Whiskers of the Lion, Sheriff Bruce Robertsonis charged with finding a young Amish woman on the run from a murderous drug ring so she can testify in federal court. Wrestling with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2015