Summary: It is a stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder. Yvonne Carmichael, is a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down when a chance meeting with Mark Costley leads to a passionate affair and a moment of shocking violence. Her only way out...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV APPHeller, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 HELSummary: An otherworldly tale of a glowing green orb from outer space that spreads destruction throughout the galaxy. Only when it encounters its one true enemy will goodness prevail in the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Heller, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of Applied Design 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 686.224 HELSummary: Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHEHeller, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.6 HELLeder, Steven Z.
Summary: "As the Senior Rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone, but also the beauty of what remains"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWISummary: In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Roger Cobb is a swinging bachelor, a lawyer, and a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwaters is a terminally ill spinster who is given another chance at life if her soul can be transported into another woman. However, the guru goofs, and Edwina's soul takes over the right side of Roger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie All 1998Stern, Ellen
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations reveal eleven animals with compound names, such as a catfish, an elephant seal, and a dragonfly, as they would look if they were half one creature and half another. Includes pictures of how each animal actually looks and facts about their unusual names.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STEAlter, Stephen
Summary: While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AlterAlter, Stephen.
Summary: The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters, foreign missionaries, Indian military, tourists, and spies. Here, in a top-secret facility facing the snow-clad Himalayas, India's legendary spymaster, Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, keeps a watchful eye on sensitive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTSummary: A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This inspiring and entertaining film chronicles Jobs' early days as a college dropout to his rise as the co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. and forced retirement from the company. More than a decade later, Jobs returns and single-handedly sets a course that will turn the once-tiny startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. His epic journey blazes a trail that changes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOB RATED PG-13Armstrong, Louis
Contents: Disc 1. That's my home / L. Rene, O. Rene, B. Ellison (3:11) -- Hobo, you can't ride this train / L. Armstrong (3:02) -- I hate to leave you now / D. Dick, H. Link, F. Waller (3:13) -- You'll wish you'd never been born / L. Armstrong (3:19) -- Medley of Armstrong hits (part 1). I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you / S. Theard ; When it's sleepy time down south / L. Rene, O. Rene, C....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Classics 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARMSummary: A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OUTSneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.
Summary: Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SNESummary: Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: Ender Wiggin is an experiment in genetic engineering, and he may have the responsibility for saving the world on his shoulders.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARSummary: Life is hard on MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOHHämäläinen, Karo
Summary: Three cell phones ring in an opulent London suite. The calls go unanswered, because their recipients are dead. Earlier that night, four old friends and lovers meet for a reunion dinner. It's been ten years since the host, Robert, who made millions by way of unethical (but not illegal) interest rate manipulation, has seen Mikko, an investigative journalist feared by corrupt financiers and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMAnderson, Steven
Summary: Count backwards from ten in this sing-along math song. The ten pigs in bed are all tucked in, but one little piggy is a bed hog and rolls over and over so that the other pigs fall out.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2016