Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSAuster, Paul
Summary: "Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 AUSAuster, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case; Blue is hired by White to spy on Black; and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work behind, in an omnibus edition containing three interconnected novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSSummary: The pups are ready for more mighty action in these six Mighty Pups: Super Paws episodes, including two double missions! When Mayor Humdinger's kittens get mighty powers, a super-thief steals Adventure Bay's treasures, and Harold puts the town under a deep freeze, it's up to the Mighty Pups and their new friends the Mighty Twins, to save the day. Plus, everyone gets a BIG surprise when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWAuster, Paul
Summary: It is a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of the night, even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys, in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audiobook 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSAuster, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul.
Summary: Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the Spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman, Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2009
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Summary: Politicos award gangster Patsy Gargan a cushy job as a honcho at a woefully run boys reform school-- no experience necessary, no expectations, no problems. But firebrand Patsy runs up against plenty of problems. He sees something in the kids-- himself. He, too, was raised in the slums. And he decides to defy everyone to give the kids opportunities he never had. Yet all the good Patsy does could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MAYAuster, Paul
Summary: "Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Stephen Crane transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster casts a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity. He provides insight into Crane's creative processes, and shows how Crane's life experiences, in rebounding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, STEPHEN AUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CRANE AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: "Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAuster, Paul
Summary: Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Sara
Summary: Use the power of sound to bring balance, relaxation, and a sense of well-being to your mind, body, and spirit with this unprecedented and comprehensive guide to sound baths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.83 AUSSummary: Get ready for an Ultimate Ruff-Ruff Rescue! Gear up with Marshall and his team as they roll out in the Ultimate Fire Truck to cool off a fire-breathing robot. Then, join Skye, Chase, Rocky, and Zuma for more Ultimate Rescue missions, including three double episodes!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019