Summary: The true story of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, who volunteered for rescue duty and became trapped in the rubble of the Towers on September 11, 2001. The men became two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero. It is a story of the true heroes and of that fateful time in United States history, when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WORRallison, Janette.
Summary: When your chance for getting into college and your date for the prom are all on the line... Sixteen-year-old Samantha Taylor is used to having things go her way. She's head cheerleader and has all the right friends and a steady stream of boyfriends. But when she tanks the SATs, her automatic assumptions about going to college don't appear to be so automatic anymore. She determines that her only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2009
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Callison, Zach
Summary: Adventures of a young boy and the Crystal Gems, his human-like alien friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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Summary: Adventures of a young boy and the Crystal Gems, his human-like alien friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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Summary: "From the mind that brought us The Odd 1s Out, Oddballs creator James Rallison is back with five brand new stories from the popular Netflix animated show! Join James, Max, Echo, and all of your favorite Oddballs characters as they get into epic amounts of preventable trouble. In these five exclusive mini stories, James grows sentient bacteria in his mouth, sells his yard, turns the whole town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: Three decades have passed since Wraith Squadron carried out its last mission. Taking on the most dangerous and daring operations, the rogues and misfits of the elite X-Wing unit became legends of the Rebellion and the Second Galactic Civil War, before breaking up and going their separate ways. Now their singular skills are back in vital demand for a tailor-made Wraith Squadron mission. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasbooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLEllison, Kate.
Summary: Olivia Jane was excited for the summer and spending it with her best friend, Stern. But that was ruined when he was murdered...by Olivia's mother. Flashing forward, Olivia's life has been transformed since that awful night. After her mother's incarceration, Olivia must move on, but she hates her father's new fiancée, Heather, and with her dad's new real estate development (she calls it Ghost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EgmontUSA 2013
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Ellison, Nora
Summary: Piano lessons are a part of growing up for many children. In this fun story, readers follow a relatable narrator as she practices piano and shares her family's history with the instrument. Colorful illustrations and accessible language encourage beginning readers to make connections with the text. Younger listeners will enjoy following along, too. Children of all ages will be inspired to try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH ELLElliston, Paige.
Summary: Readers who loved Paige Elliston's Changes of Heart and Front Page Love in the Montana Skies series will eagerly reach for this latest installment. After life in New York City, Amy Hawkins makes a fresh start in the little Montana town of Coldwater. The 35-year-old editor is hard at work on her first novel, but her money is running out and the writing isn't going well. Amy's handsome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2006
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Condie, Allyson.
Summary: All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CONMallinson, Allan.
Summary: 1826: Napoleon Bonaparte is dead and there is peace in Europe. However, in Portugal there is the scent of civil war in the air. Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portuguese regent. His place is secured with the help of Lady Katherine Greville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Countering growing mistrust in the wake of increasing cases of insanity among the Jedi, Han and Leia flee with three afflicted Jedi, while Luke travels to the homeworld of the Night Sister to learn why Jacen Solo turned to the dark side.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllston, Aaron.
Summary: In the first book of the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series, listeners experience the Galactic Alliance in crisis after a violent civil war and the fall of Darth Caedus. As prominent leaders gather for a crucial summit at Coruscant, the future of the Jedi remains uncertain. When Chief of State Natasi Daala and the media stir up mass anti-Jedi sentiments, Luke and his son Ben go rogue and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF ALLCiment, Jill
Summary: It’s the summer of 2015; Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, recently retired legal librarian and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who’s mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent; it’s a mushroom…and it’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIMCamerota, Alisyn
Summary: "The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down "A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who's had to navigate them backwards and in heels." --Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCiment, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIMCiment, Jill
Summary: The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. . Two of the jurors sequestered (she, Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CIMAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker are ambushed and uncover evidence that a rebellion is brewing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Jacen Solo's plans for galactic conquest are threatened when his parents, Han and Leia, join forces with the Corellian rebels, while Luke struggles to deal with his grief over the loss of his wife, and Jaina, Jag, and Zekk search for the assassin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLAllston, Aaron.
Summary: The X-Wing pilots are forced to take over an Imperial warship and impersonate its crew during training for the wraith squadron, a group of covert action fighters, in order to gain vital intelligence about the Imperial forces' secret weapons and plans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLSummary: After receiving mysterious invitations, Batman and his team encounter the villainous Red Hood, who is obsessed with destroying the Bat-family and all of Gotham City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEG1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEG
Dahlin, Allyson
Summary: In the year 3070, App sensation, style icon, and social influencer Marie Antoinette arrives in Versailles to marry Louis-Auguste and together, after witnessing people outside of their gilded world suffering and starving, risk everything to set things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAHCiment, Jill
Summary: A gasoline tanker truck is "stuck" in the Midtown Tunnel. New Yorkers are panicked...Is this the next big attack? Alex, an artist, and Ruth, a former schoolteacher with an FBI file as thick as a dictionary, must get their beloved dachshund, whose back legs have suddenly become paralyzed, to the animal hospital sixty blocks north. But the streets of Manhattan are welded solid with traffic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009