Summary: Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Railway 2013Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaMignola, Michael
Summary: Hellboy, when sent to investigate a supernatural mystery, discovers the details of his origins, including the link to Nazi occultists who sought to develop a demonic avatar, and later investigates a murder which leads to Romanian castles, a vampire, and more of Hellboy's past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHUSummary: An alien in the form of a voluptuous young woman combs the streets of Scotland in search of men. She lures a succession of lost souls into her otherworldly lair, where they are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI UNDRubel, David.
Summary: In Depression-era New York City, construction workers at the Rockefeller Center site help a family in need--a gift that is repaid years later in the donation of an enormous Christmas tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E RUBRedel, Victoria
Summary: "A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill--the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now, mortality Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who haveknown one another since they were girls. They've faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Redel 2017Rubel, Nicole.
Summary: Ernestine O'Reilly comes from Ireland to Texas as a mail-order bride, but when she meets the man she is supposed to marry, she ends up deciding to be a cowboy instead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC RubelEbel, Kathy.
Summary: Overwhelmed by her unemployment and estrangement from her bohemian Brooklyn family, Claudia spectacularly misjudges her younger sister's cry for help and lands in the middle of a disastrous love affair that disrupts three very different families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEMapes, Creston
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPReber, Deborah.
Summary: Join Steve and Blue when they take Periwinkle, the big city kitten, to the country festival to show him what's so great about spring. You can help Blue and Periwinkle hunt for eggs, make leaf prints, plant seeds, and visit all the booths at the fair!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr. 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE REBDeibel, Jennifer
Summary: "The only home Brianna Kelly has ever known is Ballymacool Boarding School, but when the son of local gentry arrives at the school to deal with his unruly niece, an unexpected discovery uncovers the truth about her past--and the key to her future"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEIEhrlich, Gretel.
Contents: Pinkey -- Kai and Bobby -- McKay -- Thursdays at Snuff's -- Madeleine's day -- Pinkey -- Kai's mother -- Henry -- Champ's roan colt -- McKay -- The baby -- Velma Vermeer -- Bobby's cabin -- Ted's night.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EHRGrebe, Camilla.
Summary: A follow-up to Some Kind of Peace finds psychologist Siri Bergman organizing a support group for victims of domestic abuse against a backdrop of a brutal beating murder for which the only witness is a traumatized 5-year-old girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMartínez, Rueben
Summary: A collection of seven traditional tales from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain retold in English and Spanish. Includes notes about each story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MARMedel, Elena
Summary: María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, during the Women's March in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in the Atocha train station when it overflowed with protesters and strikers....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDSiebel, Kathryn
Summary: When odd Henry Davis moves into the neighborhood claiming to be haunted by a ghost named Edgar, curious Barbara Anne searches to discover who Edgar was while alive and why he is haunting Henry now.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIECreton, Lola
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Camille has fallen in love with Sullivan, an older boy who returns her feelings, but devastates her when he leaves to travel the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOODeibel, Jennifer
Summary: "Catriona Daly is no stranger to the business of love--even though personally she has yet to find it. Eager for a match of her own and a fresh start away from her sleepy village, she makes grand plans for the annual Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival. She never expects a shy, widowed sheep farmer to distract her from her goal"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEIGrebe, Camilla
Summary: "Out of the frozen depths of a forest in Omberg, Sweden, a woman stumbles onto the road. Her arms are covered with scratches, her feet are bare, and she has no memory of what has happened. Local police identify her as psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen who, together with her partner, had been helping them investigate a cold case of a young woman's murder. Hanne begins to recover, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRERebeck, Theresa.
Summary: Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REBSegel, Jason
Summary: "After discovering terrifying information about Otherworld, the Company's high-tech VR gaming experience, Simon and his friends are on the run, searching for Simon's old roommate. He may just be the key to shutting the Company down, although if they don'tfind him in time, it may be too late for not only them, but for all of humanity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEGSegel, Jason
Summary: This guide to the Nightmares of Netherworld contains advice on how to beat the most common species of Nightmares and includes their strengths and weaknesses, fun facts, and pro tips.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SEGSegel, Jason
Summary: "Simon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis know too much about the Company's dark secrets and the real-life consequences its technology is capable of. To save humanity and shut it down forever though, Simon must first survive the most harrowing trial yet--OtherLife--the next phase of gaming, and a complete reality reboot"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEGRebeck, Theresa.
Summary: "The pathos of Beautiful Ruins meets the hilarity of Crazy Rich Asians in this comedic and tender novel. Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter howyou look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016