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Boston legal 5 Cape Cod Creamery 1 PAW patrol Rizzoli & Isles 13 Rizzoli and Isles 13Summary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Israel, Steve
Summary: "When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISRSummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPGerritsen, Tess
Summary: "Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction GerritsenLockhart, E.
Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: "Spunky sixth-grader Zoe Sparks has discovered a unique way to get the laptop of her dreams--to win it! If Zoe can sell more tubs of cookie dough than anyone in her school, the laptop is hers. It's the first step to becoming a prize-winning journalist! But her win-at-all-costs attitude is starting to drive a wedge between Zoe, her best friend Felix, and her family. Zoe may be a top cookie-dough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPGrisham, John.
Summary: The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRITavares, Matt
Summary: "A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC TAY (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Summary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. They tackle some of today's most inflammatory, and sometimes irreverent, social and moral issues, from teen pregnancy and the death penalty to sex surrogates and Alzheimer's. Now, the firm faces financial ruin and its brilliant attorneys face chaotic caseloads filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSFisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: "After being jilted by her fiancé Kevin, Dawn Dixon escapes to beautiful Cape Cod on a groomless honeymoon with her mother who, on a whim, buys a run-down ice cream shop in the town's historic district where sweet new beginnings and the past collide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISSummary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Patterson, Richard North.
Summary: When tragedy strikes at his own wedding, a young president takes on America's gun lobby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATLe Carré, John
Summary: Oliver Single, working as a children's magician in the English countryside, goes on the run when a deposit of over five million pounds to his infant daughter's modest trust alerts him that his past has caught up with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington - the Sons of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSummary: Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CallMiller, Suzie
Summary: "An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEPicoult, Jodi
Summary: A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Picoult 2011Picoult, Jodi
Summary: A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage, Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICManenzhe, Rešoketšwe
Summary: In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSummary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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Summary: Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy turns into love and marriage. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Picoult 2011Powell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017