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Criterion collectionMarcks, Ira
Summary: When a Hollywood director starts filming a blockbuster action film on the otherwise sleepy island of Martha's Vineyard, thirteen-year-old Gayle and her friends set out to make their own film and solve an island mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARLevin, Ira.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LevinLevin, Ira.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, c1967. 1967
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVLevin, Ira.
Summary: An aging Nazi hunter follows the trail of a former Auschwitz doctor who had successfully reproduced 94 genetic duplicates of Hitler through cloning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRNovey, Idra
Summary: When Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda suddenly disappears, her American translator Emma travels to Brazil to solve the mystery while fending off rapacious loan sharks and the washed-up editor who made Yagoda famous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Novey 2016Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS NOVPezeshkzad, Iraj
Summary: The story of a family in Tehran in the 1940s under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch and of the narrator's love for his cousin in the midst of numerous manipulative family members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEZNovey, Idra
Summary: "On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVTrapani, Iza.
Summary: In this counting book that introduces the numbers from one to ten, a ghost and his supernatural friends have a party on Halloween night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2009
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE TRAAira, César
Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRSummary: A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: "Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather... and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: After 21st century serial killer Buster "Rant" Casey dies in a fiery blaze of glory, three of his closest compatriots--a gang of urban demolition derby aficionados affiliated with a group calling themselves The Party Crashers--travel back to his hometown of Middleton to record an oral history of their fallen idol. Conducting interviews with Rant's family and childhood friends and enemies, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALNovey, Idra
Summary: "From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVJacob, Mira
Summary: "Brain surgeon Thomas Eapen's decision to shorten his visit to his mother's home in India has consequences that reverberate two decades later as he starts conversing with the dead and daughter Amina must sort through the family's past to help him."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETSummary: "Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNDPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more . . . Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of Damned , Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: "Palahniuk's fashion-model protagonist has it all, boyfriend, career, loyal best friend-- until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book 's characters."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012
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Summary: A full-frontal triple-X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before. A porn star intends to cap her career by breaking the record for on-screen fornication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003