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Summary: Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALCornwell, Patricia Daniels
Summary: On the eve of a top-secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming blizzard and the government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences. As it turns out, the danger is worse than she thought. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORSteele, Earle E
Summary: From horse-drawn wagon rides to school through five decades of tending majestic trees at the gothic Traverse City State Hospital, Earle Steele colorfully and compassionately shares tales of life and how it was lived at The Asylum, a city-within-a-city that once housed 3000 mentally ill patients.Steele's first affiliation with the hospital was at age nine when his father began employment at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Denali 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 STESummary: Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOL RATED RLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: After smuggling herself onto the RMS Titanic, British-Chinese teenager Valora Luck reunites with her twin brother and tries to convince him that their acrobatic training could be their ticket to a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LEESummary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARDuFord, Stacey.
Summary: A fairy gets stuck to a girl's painting of her backyard. The girl feeds the fairy and wins an art contest. Afterwards, the fairy grants the girl special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DUFSummary: Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEE RATED GSummary: Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion : Gupta the hilarious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TER RATED PG-13Abrams, Stacey
Summary: "An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma"-- Avery Keene, a law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to excel in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the news breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABRKade, Stacey.
Summary: Never trust anyone. Remember they are always searching. Don't get involved. Keep your head down. Don't fall in love. Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane's survival-and that of her adoptive father-depends on her ability to blend in among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2013
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Swaney, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mascot Books Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641 SWAWalls, Jeannette
Summary: "Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALJay, Stacey.
Summary: "These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume." --Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The most tragic love story in history . . . Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Shetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEO'Brien, Stacey.
Summary: Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir "Marley & Me" a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl--and their astonishing and unprecedented 19-year life together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.9 OBRKane, Stacia.
Summary: From rising star Stacia Kane comes the third novel in her dark and sexy Chess Putnam series, perfect for fans of Kim Harrison and Patricia Briggs. Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate. Mangled human corpses have started to show up on the streets of Downside, and Chess' bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad agency to crack the grisly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Kane, Stacia.
Summary: The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. In a future world under attack from the undead, the powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Walls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSZhang, Gracey
Summary: "Rubin loves the beautiful sounds that are played by the orchestra. He wants to learn to play the violin and make his own music. But when Rubin plays, it doesn't sound like he imagines it should. Rubin goes into the forest to practice alone and despite only getting the violin to screech, he finds an unlikely audience that loves his unique style"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ZHAHalls, Kelly Milner.
Summary: What do guys and girls really think? Twelve of the most dynamic and engaging YA authors writing today team up for this one-of-a-kind collection of he said/she said stories he tells it from the guy's point of view, she tells it from the girl's. Stories of love and heartbreak, like the good-looking jock who falls for a dangerous girl and the flipside of the toxic girl who never learns to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2012
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Dalle, 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).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline Records 2014
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Hawes, Jason.
Summary: Presents a middle grade collection of stories that recount spooky paranormal investigations based on real ghost hunts from stars of the TV show "Ghost Hunters."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HAWVoltaire
Summary: Extrait : ""Nous osons croire, à l'honneur du siècle où nous vivons, qu'il n'y a point dans toute l'Europe un seul homme éclairé qui ne regarde la tolérance comme un droit de justice, un devoir proscrit par l'humanité, la conscience, la religion ; une loi nécessaire à la paix et à la prospérité des États.""À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 1989