Summary: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HITNixon, Rosie
Summary: When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is mistakenly offered a job as assistant to infamous, jet-setting 'stylist to the stars' Mona Armstrong, she hits the ground running, helping to style some of Hollywood's hottest (and craziest) starlets. As awards season spins into action Mona is in hot demand and Amber's life turned upside down. Suddenly she catching the attention of two very different...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIXSummary: When a climber encounters a stranded stranger on Mt. Washington, she must get them both down the mountain before nightfall when an oncoming blizzard is due to hit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INFSummary: Follows DI Jimmy Perez and his DS, "Tosh" MacIntosh, as they investigate how the cold case of a teenager's murder is linked to their current investigation of a journalist's murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ShSummary: Inspired by a true story, follow the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, it highlights all that can go wrong when a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TERSummary: DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan face an impossible cold case. A lawyer. A nurse. A schoolteacher. A police officer. These four suspects are the pieces of the puzzle. But as Cassie and Sunny put this picture together, the more blurred it becomes. The investigation will question their assumptions about the most damaged and destructive in society. When a victim becomes a criminal, is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UNFNiven, Jennifer
Summary: EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW LIBBY STROUT, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Since her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for EVERY...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: The Doctor and her companions Graham, Ryan, and Yaz travel around the universe and through time to overcome a new threat to planet Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do 12Schneider, Howie
Summary: A family may have to get rid of their new pet, a cute puppy that eats everything in sight, including toys, bowls, and porches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rising Moon 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SCHSummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BUDWatts, Naomi
Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DIACarr, Howie.
Summary: After the murder of a client, former Boston cop-turned-private investigator Jack Reilly is compelled to sift through decades of corruption to discover who is trying to kill him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: In Australia's red heart with all of its precarious beauty, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A modern, illustrated retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 RAVParachini, Jodie
Summary: Digby and his friends discover that there is more than one way to get the job done when they become dancing machines at the construction site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARSummary: 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 SPESummary: It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSSummary: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VALNiven, Larry.
Summary: A tale set ten years after the events in "Juggler of Worlds" traces the reluctant efforts of the Puppeteers to counter onrushing alien refugees who are ransacking the planets they pass on their way toward the Fleet of Worlds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: In the 28th Century, a war breaks out on Ringworld, a conglomeration of nations and cultures occupying 600 million miles of space. The hero is Louis Wu, a 200-year-old human scientist attempting to mediate the conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVSummary: New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRANiven, Larry.
Summary: Contains two novels, including "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring," in which the crew of the spaceship "Discipline" inexplicably abandons the craft for a life on the Smoke Ring, a gaseous envelope encircling a neutron star, where they and their descendants remain for five hundred years while the emotionless computer intelligence Kendy waits for them just outside the ring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003