Dixon, John
Summary: When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIXDixon, John
Summary: "What if you had a power you had to hide from everyone--until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes. Welcome to The Point, future leaders of the Posthuman Age. New cadets, society is not ready for you. The oldest, fiercest fear is ignorance. The general population would burn you at the metaphysical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIXSummary: Set in Australia's Victoria Alps, tells the story of a stormy romance caught up in a violent feud between landowners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Return 2003Summary: Set during the 1880's when the Australian frontier was wild and dangerous, the film follows the exploits of a youth who sets out to tame a wild herd of horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Video 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Man 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANSummary: Set during the 1880's when the Australian frontier was wild and dangerous, the film follows the exploits of a youth who sets out to tame a wild herd of horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Video 2002
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MANDonaldson, Lou.
Contents: Funky mama / John Patton (9:05) -- Love walked in / G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin (5:10) -- Spaceman twist / Lou Donaldson (5:35) -- Sow belly blues / Lou Donaldson (10:11) -- That's all / B. Haymes, A. Brandt (5:33) -- Nice 'n greasy / Johnny Acea (5:24) -- People will say we're in love / R. Rodgers, O. Hammerstein (7:53).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DONTurre, Steve.
Contents: Ginseng people (6:42) -- Woody & Bu (8:09) -- Unfinished rooms (5:58) -- Echoes of Harlem (4:15) -- Right there (8:51) -- Duke's mountain (7:40) -- Sanyas (7:56) -- Descarga de Turre (7:51).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antilles 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TURGreen, Grant.
Contents: Am I blue (6:54) -- Take these chains from my heart (6:09) -- I wanna be loved (7:34) -- Sweet slumber (7:12) -- For all we know (13:57).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GRESummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAIDoon Kanda
Contents: Polycephaly -- Dio -- Gut -- Enigma -- Wing -- Nastasya -- Pieridae -- Mino -- Search -- Bunny -- Garnet -- Forgive -- Entrance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KANBonny Doon
Contents: Relieved -- Summertime friends -- What time is it in Portland? -- Lost my way -- I see you -- You can't hide -- Never been to California -- Maine vision -- Evening al day long -- Crowded
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melodie
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BONDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.54 DidioDidion, Joan
Summary: "Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDDidion, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Didion, Joan.
Summary: A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay DidionDidion, Joan.
Summary: Here, the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 814 DIDDidion, Joan.
Summary: Blue nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 813.54 DIDION, JOAN DIDDidion, Joan.
Summary: From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Didion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DIDCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIDION, JOAN DIDDidion, Joan.
Summary: A woman journalist quits her job on a Washington paper to look after her father, living on a Caribbean island where he smuggles guns to rebels in Central America. When he falls sick, she takes over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIDDidion, Joan.
Summary: The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America— particularly California—in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DIDDizon, John Reinhard
Summary: In the aftermath of the War on Terror, a succession of nuclear attacks have left the nations of the world in a Great Depression. Katia Wynter is a teenage girl living in a commune in New Mexico, ruled by motorcycle gangs who exchange protection for tribute. One of many kids who left their poverty-stricken homes in Truth or Consequences, Katia is searching for a better future outside the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DIZSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Summary: A game of private detective turns deadly for an unlikely sleuth combo. How did Abbie Thompson end up a sidekick to Edna Merkel, Senior Citizen Pseudo-Sleuth? It all started when Abbie was so furious at her father for breaking up their family that she acted without thinking and was arrested for malicious mischief. The judge decided to give Abbie a chance at a clean record and arranged for her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2012