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Prime suspectGillen, Lynea.
Summary: A story to help children become mindful of caring people in their world, to ease their fears and to develop their sense of gratitude. Includes two activity pages to encourage children to find the good people in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Pebble Press 2012
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Summary: "In this memoir, earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: "I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILDEN, LYNX VILMillet, Lydia
Summary: Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.--the protagonist of Lydia Millet's novel How the Dead Dream--who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who stil live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, blow out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Sheep 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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Summary: Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: "A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: "A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2024
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Summary: Gile's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices; she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side. As Nyna grew up, her mother became more and more distant. Carolyn Scott Reybold had been a model in 1947, a friend of Grace Kelly, and even a bridesmaid at her wedding. How had that confident, glamorous woman become the mother Giles knew growing up-- the mother who was now living in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILES, NYNA GILGilden, Linda J.
Summary: Mama Was the Queen of Christmas is a delightful collection of homespun stories, Quotes, Scriptures, and practical suggestions for keeping the holidays focused on the most important person of all: Jesus Not only will you be encouraged to more fully enjoy the season, but the holidays will become more significant and meaningful to every member of your family. Use each entry as a daily devotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Linda J. Gilden 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILCullen, Lynn
Summary: From the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain's End comes a novel set during the Great Depression following two estranged sisters and their mother--who has spent a lifetime hiding a desperate secret that could dismantle the entire family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULCullen, Lynn
Summary: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULCullen, Lynn.
Summary: Renaissance portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola joins the Spanish court of Felipe II after a scandal in her native Italy and becomes embroiled in a love triangle involving the royal couple and the king's illegitimate half-brother, Don Juan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULCullen, Lynn.
Summary: After a scandal ends her apprenticeship with Michelangelo in 1559, artist Sofonisba Anguissola accepts an invitation from King Felipe II to become lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to his teenage bride Elisabeth. And though Sofi's developing affair may be risky, Elisabeth's dalliance with the king's brother Don Juan could be deadly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CULCullen, Lynn
Summary: Struggling to support her family in mid-nineteenth-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULCullen, Lynn
Summary: "She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CULCullen, Lynn.
Summary: A fictionalized account of Spanish queen Juana de Castile traces her succession to the throne after the reign of Queen Isabel, her marriage to Philippe the Handsome, and the accusations of insanity that prompted her half-century tower imprisonment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULSummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Doskow, Emily
Summary: Don't let a neighborly nuisance turn into a nasty lawsuit. Learn your rights and responsibilities with Neighbor Law, the plain-English guide to the laws behind common neighbor disputes. Neighbor Law is more than a legal guide--it's a practical book filled with tips on how to solve problems and restore good neighbor relations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.01 DOSStoner, Katherine E.
Summary: Ending a marriage is always difficult, but you don't have to be financially or emotionally overwhelmed. Through mediation or a collaborative divorce, you can avoid huge legal bills and debilitating conflict with your ex. This book guides you through all the steps of negotiating a divorce settlement, using mediation or collaborative law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jim Phelps continues to focus on targets outside the reach of conventional law enforcement, as he and special effects whiz Barney, muscle man Willy, and the gorgeous Casey help smash organized crime rings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009