Brooks, Molly (Molly Grayson)
Summary: "Sanity and Tallulah live in a space station at the end of the galaxy. When Sanity's illegally created three-headed kitten escapes, the girls have to turn their home upside down to find her in this graphic novel"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC BROSummary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AROSummary: From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOD RATED PG-13Summary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPEFranco
Summary: His father and everybody else at the museum in New York is excited over the dinosaur eggs that Mike Evans found in Montana--the trouble is they are hatching and Mike will need the help of his mysterious and time-traveling friend Shannon to capture them before they wreck the museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFranco
Summary: Michael Evans is in Montana on a dinosaur dig with his paleontologist father, but he certainly never expected to find a live Tyrannosaurus Rex plucked out of its own time and looking for dinner, nor encounter a girl with some very advanced technology trying to trap the beast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRASummary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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Summary: Mike Evans goes through the time portal to find his friend Shannon and her troublesome brother Jeff, but he soon finds they all have bigger problems--a robot who wants to repopulate the Earth with dinosaurs and a group of Tyrannosaurus rex babies who remember Mike from New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFlint, Tally.
Summary: Mothering is an adventure to be sure—from diaper changes and potty training to car pools and soccer games, a mom's life is full of adventures with her children. But it's not only about the kids. Mothering is also an adventure in personal growth. And that's what moms are invited to enjoy as they read The Mommy Diaries. With contributions from a variety of authors and speakers familiar to todays...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2008
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Summary: Michael Evans and his paleontologist father have been invited by the mysterious time-traveling Shannon to visit the complex built around an underwater portal to the Jurassic period, but Mike uncovers a plot to steal one of the dinosaurs--and then Shannon and her trouble-making brother Jeff disappear through the portal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRASalley, Coleen.
Summary: A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SALSalley, Coleen.
Summary: In this variation on the folktale, Sody Salyraytus, each of Epossumondas's birthday guests disappears until it is finally up to him to rescue them all and bring home the "sody" for his birthday biscuits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SALPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRESalley, Coleen.
Summary: Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup-garou.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SALLamb, Wally
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMFranken, Al
Summary: The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKIN FRALamb, Wally.
Summary: Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fic LamLamb, Wally.
Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMLamb, Wally.
Summary: Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMFrancona, Terry.
Summary: From famed manager Terry Francona, a lively, unvarnished narrative of his tenure withthe storied Boston Red Sox From 2004 to 2011, Terry Francona managed the BostonRed Sox, the most talked about, scrutinized team in all of sports. In Francona thelegendary manager opens up for the first time about his eight years there, as they wentfrom cursed franchise to one of the most successful and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
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Franzen, Jonathan
Summary: "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young. Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASaltz, Gail.
Summary: Without delving into the realm of sexual intercourse, a guide answers preschoolers' commonly asked questions about reproduction, birth, and the difference between the sexes through simple text and illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 612.6 SALDalle, Brody.
Contents: Rat Race (3:39) -- Underworld (5:19) -- Don't Mess With Me (3:39) -- Dressed In Dreams (4:46) -- Carry On (4:22) -- Meet The Foetus / Oh The Joy (5:02) -- I Don't Need Your Love (6:02) -- Blood In Gutters (4:18) -- Parties For Prostitutes (4:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline Records 2014