Eisler, Barry.
Summary: When John Rain, the Japanese/American "contract killer with a conscience" (Entertainment Weekly), learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EISEisler, Barry
Summary: "Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she's determined to put one of America's most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISEisler, Barry.
Summary: John Rain is back. And the assassin is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISEisler, Barry
Summary: "Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISEisler, Barry
Summary: Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan's most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate deal with his handler: take out a high-profile target in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISEisler, Barry
Summary: When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation into an international child pornography ring gets too close to powerful enemies, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry, and suspects that the FBI itself was behind it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISAbraham, Daniel
Summary: "Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and the weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent war of all against all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAsher, Neal L.
Summary: In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity’s Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity or the prador want the other in full control of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHJones, Emma
Summary: Examines the sport of rugby and how women all around the world engage in this rough game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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Summary: Being on a softball team teaches girls the value of teamwork, helps them become more confident, and allows them to grow into healthy and active women. Readers discover these and other important benefits of playing softball, while also learning the basic rules of the game. Informative main text is accompanied by eye-catching fact boxes and a detailed graphic organizer. Vivid photographs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.357 ROGMaberry, Jonathan.
Summary: Twenty-two short stories, eleven of which were previously published, based on the Rot & Ruin series in which fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends fight a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic America. Includes a related comic book script.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MABDeMille, Nelson.
Summary: Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion," has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, will stop at nothing to find and kill Khahil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMForest, Anne
Summary: How can playing volleyball help girls grow stronger and become more empowered? What opportunities are available for girls to continue playing volleyball as they grow up? Who are some of the most famous female volleyball players, and what can girls learn from their success stories? The answers to these questions and more are waiting for girls to discover as they learn about the exciting sport of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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Summary: How can a girl go from playing basketball in gym class to becoming a WNBA superstar? The journey starts by learning as much as possible about the sport of basketball. Through manageable text, a detailed graphic organizer, and fun fact boxes, readers explore basketball basics. They also discover stories of some of the most famous women to ever play the game. Full-color photographs show girls and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 ROGSummary: A wounded gunman avenging the death of his foster-father is nursed back to health by a young Quaker woman. She promises to marry him if he will give up his gun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Roan Group 1999
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN ANGWells, Dan
Summary: John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest - but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use. Meanwhile, Brooke's fractured...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WELSummary: No sooner had Europe declared an end to its Great War than the seeds of new conflict were sewn-in the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. With typical global awareness, photography patron and archivist Albert Kahn chose to document the historic changes occurring in the colonial Middle East. This program traces his team's expeditions into Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine as Western powers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Gardner, Lisa.
Summary: When Rainie Conner vanishes, leaving behind only her blood-stained car, her estranged husband, ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, begins a desperate search to find the woman he still loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GARSummary: As they built an unsurpassed visual archive of world culture, Albert Kahn and his photographers turned their attention to widely divergent locations. This program follows the maritime odyssey of Lucien Le Saint, circa 1922, as he captured on film the daily lives of Newfoundland cod fishermen, as well as expeditions into northwestern Africa. Images from Morocco and Tunisia focus on occupying...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In 1908, Albert Kahn and his chauffeur embarked on a global trek to observe and absorb other cultures-an early "prototype" of the many photography missions Kahn would fund over the years. This program illustrates that formative round-the-world trip as well as the 1913 journey undertaken by photographer Stephane Passet to China, Mongolia, and India. Viewers will encounter startling images of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In this final season, U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon returns from maternity leave to her job at the Witness Protection Program, and must quickly find a way to balance motherhood and her job protecting people, both the innocent and cold-blooded killers alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INJennings, Rashad
Summary: Just before starting sixth grade in New York City, Arcade Livingston is given a necklace by a stranger that sends him and whoever he is with on a series of wild adventures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JENJennings, Rashad
Summary: Follow Arcade Livingston and his sister Zoe as they take on one of life's hardest questions for a tween: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD JENSummary: Versailles, 1919: French banker Albert Kahn and his camera team are among the few photographers allowed inside the Hall of Mirrors for the treaty signing-an example of Kahn's uncanny talent for documenting change. This program focuses on Kahn's pictorial record of the war's aftermath and the challenges of securing a true peace across Europe. Zeppelin-borne aerial footage conveys the scope of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009