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Atlanta (Ga.) Fiction Child trafficking victims Fiction Civil rights lawyers Fiction Disaster victims India Fiction Human trafficking India Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Sisters India Fiction Tamil Nadu (India) Fiction Teenage girls India Fiction Tsunamis Coromandel Coast (India) FictionCorwin, Norman
Summary: Academy Award nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates. This fierce rivalry between rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas tackled some of the day's most passionate and controversial issues -- above all, those of slavery and the American concept of freedom. As...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.5 CORCorwin, Norman
Summary: Recaptures the fiery face-off between the rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and the incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Tackles some of the day's most passionate issues -- war, slavery and the American concept of freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN RIVSummary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUSCorman, Avery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORCorman, Leela
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CORCorgan, Billy.
Contents: Zowie -- Processional -- The Spaniards -- Aeronaut -- The long goodbye -- Half-life of an autodidact -- Amarinthe -- Antietam -- Mandarynne -- Shiloh -- Archer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Rights 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CORCorban, Jess
Summary: In Nedé--a safe haven for women--seventeen-year-old Reina draws strength from a forbidden friendship when torn between her formidable grandmother and her mother as she faces a decision that could change their world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wander, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CORCorman, Avery
Summary: Shares poems about different dog breeds, including the Great Dane, German Shepherd, and Lhasa Apso.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded fac̦ade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADDAddison, Corban
Summary: "A once idyllic American landscape is home to a closely knit, rural community that, for more than a generation, has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming that had been making them sick and damaging their homes. After years of frustration and futile attempts to bring about change, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, brought...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 346.7303 ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.7303 ADDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.7303 ADDCorgan, Billy
Contents: The colour of love -- Confessions of a dopamine addict -- Cyr -- Dulcet in E -- Wrath -- Ramona -- Anno satana -- Birch grove -- Wyttch -- Starrcraft -- Purple blood -- Save your tears -- Telegenix -- Black forest, black hills -- Adrennalynne -- Haunted -- The hidden sun -- Schaudenfreud -- Tyger, tyger -- Minerva.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMAAddison, Corban
Summary: When a girl with Down syndrome is sexually assaulted in a Lusaka slum, human rights lawyer Zoe Fleming and Zambian police officer Joseph Zabuta conduct an investigation that reveals a link between the victim and a powerful local family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADDAddison, Corban
Summary: Somali pirates hijack a sailboat in the Indian Ocean and take Americans Daniel Parker and his teenaged son, Quentin, as hostages. A tense standoff orchestrated by top US negotiator Paul Derrick ends in tragedy. The pirates are captured and extradited to stand trial in the United States, and a young man named Ismail is identified by his cohorts as the leader. Paul begins to suspect there is more...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADDAddison, Corban
Summary: Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: A young American lawyer and a Zambian police officer work together to uncover the identiy of a young Zambian girl who has been brutally assaulted and find out the person who is behind the crime.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADDAddison, Corban
Summary: When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce, where the most valuable prize is the innocence of a child....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SilverOaks Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADDAddison, Corban
Summary: Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ADDVinocour, Susan Nordin
Summary: "A powerful and humane exploration of the "insanity defense," through one heartbreaking case. A three-year-old boy dies, having apparently fallen while trying to reach a bag of sugar on a high shelf. His grandmother stands accused of second-degree murder.Psychologist Susan Nordin Vinocour agrees to evaluate the defendant, to determine whether the impoverished and mentally ill woman is competent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020