Camus, Albert
Summary: A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1989
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Summary: The second volume in The Kent Family Chronicles, in which young Philip Kent, having escaped the murderous intentions of his half-brother in France, becomes caught up in the valor and turmoil of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKHamer, Bob.
Summary: FBI agent Matt Hogan is assigned to pose as a volunteer at a nonprofit charity in an effort to track a terrorist cell group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMDonald, Angus.
Summary: ""A rip-roaring tale. full of twists and turns...A fast-moving, thoroughly enjoyable yarn." --Kirkus Reviews on King's Man Robert, Earl of Locksley, returns in the latest in Angus Donald's compelling historical novels, reimagining one of the most indelible figures in folklore--Robin Hood. King Richard I, the Lionheart, is engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of Normandy. Using the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONVerne, Jules
Summary: En 1872 Phileas Fogg ha sufrido una apuesta por viajar alrededor del mundo en setenta y nueve días,, veintitrés horas y cincuenta y siete minutos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blume 2012
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC VERAxler, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP SF AXLPatterson, James
Summary: Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after their father was lost at sea, but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates. Their search for a rescue plan takes them to Africa, where they'll have to navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids in the desert to wet-and-wild jungles--not to mention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists Max and the flock, a band of genetically modified children who can fly, to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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Summary: While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATRollins, James
Summary: After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ROLRedfield, James.
Summary: An ancient manuscript found in Peru contains nine insights the human race needs to enter an era of spiritual awareness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REDPatterson, James
Summary: One last chance . . . for Max, Fang, and Dylan . . . before it all ends. "Nevermore" is one last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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Summary: Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers a horror like no other, an island where all life has been eradicated, consumed, and possessed by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks the group, killing them all, save one: an entomologist, an expert on venomous creatures, Professor Ken Matsui from Cornell University. Strangest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017
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Summary: "In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery: a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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Summary: The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PATBurke, James Lee
Summary: "After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who then places Hack's son Ishmael squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ. Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burke 2015Haley, James L.
Summary: "Following the naval victories of the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War, the United States is finally expanding its navy to take a place of prominence in world affairs. Bliven Putnam, now Captain of the sloop of war Rappahannock, has come into his own as a leader and is ordered to the Pacific. But with this new tour of duty to last more than two years, his patient wife, Clarity, unwilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALJames, Anna (Anna Lois)
Summary: When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMOwen, James A.
Summary: Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OWEBurke, James Lee
Summary: A Texas ranger escapes after a violent encounter with a stolen artifact that has an Austrian arms dealer pursuing him and targeting his estranged son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURCooper, James Fenimore
Summary: The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiance, and by the treacherous Indian Magua,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COOOwen, James A.
Summary: It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought together again to solve a mystery: someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial wings: "The Crusade has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC OWEJae-Jones, S.
Summary: Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother's and her own musical careers. Although she is determined to look forward and not behind, life in the world above is not as easy as Liesl had hoped. Her younger brother Josef is cold, distant, and withdrawn, while Liesl can't forget the austere young man she left beneath the earth, and the music he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018