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Summary: During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGGSikes, Amie
Summary: In their first book, the Junk Gypsies--sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show--combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson. Amie and Jolie Sikes, the Thelma and Louise of the design world, are the Junk Gypsies: a family with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SIKPryor, Francis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 936.101 PRYSummary: When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Goldeneye 2007Apatow, Judd
Summary: "Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 APACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 792.7 APACarlsen, Spike
Summary: "Carpenter Spike Carlsen, his wife, and their recently blended family of five kids set out to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the funny, wry, and heartwarming story of their eventful journey--from buying land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the hideaway of their dreams. Learning as they go, and learning about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 690.80 CARMendez, Jonna
Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024
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Summary: "A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LETSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about spinal pain, injuries, and related disorders, facts about preventing back and neck pain, maintaining spinal health, self-care, pain management, rehabilitative care, chiropractic care, spinal surgeries, along with preventative suggestions, a glossary of related terms, and a directory of resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 BACO'Connell, John
Summary: A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world’s favorite flavors—The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O’Connell’s erudite chapters combine history with insights into art, religion, medicine, science, and is richly seasoned with anecdotes and recipes. Discover why Cleopatra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 OCOCrais, Robert.
Summary: When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crais 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRASummary: Relativity and quantum physics touch the very basis of physical reality, altering commonsense notions of space and time, cause and effect. Both have reputations for complexity, but the basic ideas behind relativity and quantum physics are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. The essence of relativity in a single sentence: The laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 EINCrais, Robert.
Summary: Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
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Summary: To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "Adele Schumacher isn't a typical worried mom. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of professional bodyguards. Finding Josh should be simple, but a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find him first. With dangerous secrets lurking behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRACrais, Robert
Summary: Adele Schumacher hires Elvis to find her missing son, controversial podcaster Josh Shoe. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis isn't alone in the hunt: a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find Josh and his adult film star girlfriend first. He calls on his friend Joe Pike to uncover the truth about Josh, corrupt politicians, and the vicious business cartels rotting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRARaab, Scott
Summary: "The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official site photographer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 RAAReul, Sarah Lynne
Summary: "Nail is stuck. When Nail needs help getting un-stuck, who from the toolbox will be the best tool for the job?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REUSimonetti, Gualtiero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.7 SIMPark, Barbara.
Summary: Eight adventures of Junie B. Jones in the First Grade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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Summary: First grader Junie B. Jones is determined to win the grand prize at wealthy classmate Lucille's Easter egg hunt--a playdate in Lucille's heated swimming pool--but her big bunny costume keeps getting in the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007