Jeffries, Sabrina.
Summary: Mired in scandal after his parents' mysterious deaths, notorious gambler Lord Jarret Sharpe agrees to tamely run the family brewery for a year if his Machiavellian grandmother rescinds her ultimatum that he marry. But the gambler in him can't resist when beguiling Annabel Lake proposes a wager. If she wins their card game, he must help save her family's foundering brewery. But if he wins, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Star Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFHolleman, Emily
Summary: Sharing the throne of Egypt with her eleven-year-old brother Ptolemy, Cleopatra is caught in a power struggle and forced to flee during a rebel uprising, while her sister Arsinoe, who follows Cleopatra into exile, is forced to chose between betraying her family or her country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLSummary: The second season of AMC's post-Civil War series Hell on Wheels continues the story of former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, whose journey is filled with turmoil and danger as he struggles to leave a troubled past behind. Centered around the traveling town that follows the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the series examines the greed and corruption in man's fight for power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hopscotch Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELBrooks, Terry
Summary: "Following The Black Elfstone, the second book of the epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series from one of the acknowledged masters of the fantasy genre. Tensions in the Four Lands are high. The mysterious force that laid waste to Paranor has revealed a more human face. While some gain a new understanding of the invaders and what they are after, others continue their existing quests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Brooks 2018Summary: Despite its amorous nickname, the vinchuca, or kissing bug, actually gives its sleeping victims a malevolent bite sucking blood and transmitting a microscopic parasite called Tripanisoma cruzi. The microbe, in turn, produces Chagas disease, which currently afflicts 16 million people in South America and will kill a quarter of them in middle age. This program travels into the mountain villages...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: New and lethal strains of TB are emerging worldwide which cannot be treated by conventional drugs. One estimate puts the number of new MDR TB cases per year as high as 400,000. After 40 years without any research into new drugs, the race is on to find a cure for MDR TB. This program travels between Peru and South Korea as it examines both the current impact of TB super strains in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Thriving in more than 50 developing countries, mostly in Africa and Asia, trachoma is the leading cause of blindness in the world. It is at its worst in rural communities and women are its favorite victims. Trachoma is a bacterium that lurks in stagnant water and, once established in a human host, creates deforming scar tissue in the eye. This program shows how the struggle against the disease...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Striking in areas where vaccines tend to be out of reach, the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami produced fears of an immediate cholera epidemic. But one district in southern India showed the world how to defy the odds, clearing contaminated debris and working with UNICEF to distribute clean water, thus keeping cholera at bay without the help of drugs. This film travels to Tamil Nadu where aid workers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Craig, Erin A.
Summary: In a manor by the sea, one sister is still cursed. Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia.When their sister Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloem—wife of a celebrated botanist—is interested in having Verity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CRASummary: While mosquito-borne diseases like malaria emerge from stagnant ponds and puddles, it is fast-running water, in conjunction with the blood-sucking black fly, that creates a breeding ground for river blindness. Black flies carry a microscopic nematode larva that, thanks to a penny-sized nodule under the skin, can be easily detected after it has grown and reproduced inside a human host, but not...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Gray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: Mark Fisher has returned home to Hart County, determined to put the past behind him. Two years ago, after being wrongly accused of assault, he left the Amish community, though never forgot his home. When the one person who had helped him through his rough times asks for help, Mark returns. But it is pretty Waneta Cain who makes him want to stay.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king, Bobby Axe Axelrod in a battle between two powerful New York figures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BILSummary: Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELMcCauley, Terrence
Summary: "Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead keeps the peace in the mining town of Silver Cloud, Montana. But an old enemy has declared war against him. Ruthless and clever, Ed Zimmerman would have become the leader of one of the west's deadliest and hell-bent outlaw gangs. Zimmerman has offered a generous bounty to every desperado willing to put a bullet through the U.S. Deputy Marshal's heart. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCStiefvater, Maggie
Summary: As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION STICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STICamaron, Chelsea
Summary: The danger, the chaos, and the lifestyle of the Hellions world has become far too much for Savannah "Sass" Perchton. Swearing off bikers and attempting a "normal life," she has settled. She pushes away her old life, her old self. She is trying to fit into a mold, to be everything she never was. He's a playboy-a different chick in his bed, off on a different ride, and always chasing something...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Alexander, Hannah
Summary: "On Christmas Eve, a woman stumbles through a cemetery in Juliet, Missouri, not knowing where or who she is. While her friends try to help her regain her memory, they are concerned that some unknown trigger could plunge her more deeply into her fugue state"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALESummary: Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power, and influence to outmaneuver the other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BILGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: Returning to the Amish community that wrongly blamed him for an assault two years earlier, Mark protects the only woman who believed him, Neeta, who wonders at the identity of the real culprit in the wake of new attacks. Mark Fisher returns to the Amish community that wrongly blamed him for an assault two years earlier when Neeta, the only woman who believed in his innocence, asks for his help....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Inspire, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRARowling, J. K.
Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ren min wen xue chu ban she 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 FIC ROWContents: [v. 2]. Disc 1. Episodes 35-41. Goku's ascension ; The tuffle gorilla attacks! ; Old Kai's last stand ; Family bonds ; Baby put to rest ; Piccolo's decision ; Curtain call -- [v. 2]. Disc 2. Episodes 42-48. A dangerous unio ; The resurrection of Cell and Frieza ; 17 times 2 ; Piccolo's best bet ; Raising the stakes ; The greatest surprise ; The shadow dragons -- [v. 2]. Disc 3. Episodes 49-54....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2008
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME DRAMacdonald, Fiona.
Summary: Examines the everyday life of women in the United States during the 1800s, contrasting society's ideal view of women with their real lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Bedrick Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.42 MACMacdonald, Fiona.
Summary: Examines the status and conditions of women in ancient Roman society, discussing such topics as marriage and family life, clothing, domestic duties, religion, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Bedrick Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 305.4 MacdoMarney, Ellie
Summary: Travis Bell and Emma Lewis reunite to help the FBI capture a serial killer in Pittsburgh, and they must again turn to a notorious teenage sociopath and his twin sister for help finding the murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023