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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Alternative rock music Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Missing persons Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Skywalker, Luke (Fictitious character) Fiction Space warfare Fiction Vermont Fiction Women FictionSummary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDSummary: Features a slew of Dualtone artists and alumni including The Lumineers, Brett Dennen, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mt. Joy, Shovels and Rope, and Langhorne Slim all covering each other's songs in celebration of the label's landmark birthday.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AMESummary: No longer the new girl in town, Mary has come to think of the newsroom staff as family. But along with the good times and close friendships come the often trying and ultimately hilarious situations every family faces. From Mary explaining the facts of life to Phyllis' daughter to going on a blind date to attending her disastrous high school reunion, Mary has to cope with every situation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARTraviss, Karen.
Summary: "HALO: GLASSLANDS saw a very different development in the war that Earth has been fighting for so very long. With terrible losses on both sides, finally open hostilities have ended. But though a fragile peace has been established between Earth and the peoples of the Covenant, forces on both sides make that peace precarious. A schism among the Sangheili is gaining strength, with a splinter group...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRAMacMahon, Kathleen.
Summary: While visiting Ireland in search of his family's roots, Bruno falls for Addie, an unemployed architect who is recovering from a nasty break-up and taking care of her ill father, but the pair's new romance is tested by an unexpected tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcMahon, Andrew
Contents: Zombies intro (0:29) -- Brooklyn, you're killing me (3:11) -- So close (3:19) -- Don't speak for me (true) (3:24) -- Fire escape (3:25) -- Dead man's dollar (3:31) -- Shot out of a cannon (3:53) -- Walking in my sleep (3:49) -- Island radio (3:47) -- Love and great buildings (3:48) -- Birthday song (5:39).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MCMMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: In 1854, beautiful, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps--then disappears without a trace. When Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, leaves her surgeon husband's side to follow the trail of her elusive cousin to Sebastopol, she encounters Rosa's dashing stepbrother, a reckless cavalry officer whose complex past -- and future -- is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMacMahon, Kathleen
Summary: Distinguishing themselves through the sheer force of their personalities, an Irish family endures a series of misfortunes during a fateful summer marked by media scandals, the matriarch's eightieth birthday, and a shocking revelation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Thavis, John.
Summary: Presents a behind-the-scenes perspective on the Vatican's inner workings that challenges popular perceptions, revealing the personal conflicts, authority-undermining scandals, and modern considerations that are challenging the Vatican's daily business.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.136 THASmiley, Tavis
Summary: Presents an analysis of the recent increase of poverty in the United States, even among the middle class, describing twelve steps that can be undertaken to give the poor more equitable access to housing, education, and health care.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SmileyBooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.22 SMISmiley, Tavis
Summary: "A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, MICHAEL SMISmiley, Tavis
Summary: A notable PBS and Public Radio International host recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou, who took on the role of teacher and maternal figure to him after their initial meeting in 1986, when he was a recent college graduate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMITraviss, Karen.
Summary: Jacen Solo's shadow of influence has threatened many, especially those closest to him. Jaina Solo is determined to bring her brother in, but in order to track him down, she must first learn unfamiliar skills from a man she finds ruthless, repellent, and dangerous. Meanwhile, Ben Skywalker, still haunted by suspicions that Jacen killed his mother, Mara, decides he must know the truth, even if it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRA LF 8Traviss, Karen.
Summary: In order to gain the power of a true Sith Lord, Jacen Solo must see to it that someone he values dies. The choice he makes will destroy two families and cast a dark shadow over the galaxy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRA LF 5Traviss, Karen.
Summary: The first in a five-book Clone Wars series accompanies the new movie and TV show. Anakin Skywalker is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibility--and his chances of survival aren't improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF TRATraviss, Karen.
Summary: As Jacen Solo continues his rise to power, he grows increasingly like his grandfather, Darth Vader, and his evil Sith mentor, Emperor Palpatine, until he is forced to make a horrifying choice that will change his own life and those of the Skywalker and Solo families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRAMcMahon, Bob
Summary: "New best friends Cookie and Broccoli are as different as peanut butter and cheese, but that doesn't stop them from taking on the first grade! Together they navigate the first day of school: finding the classroom, making new friends (all various fruits, veggies, and desserts), and silly secret greetings. When Broccoli discovers that Cookie also has shy moments, the two of them come up with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it's just another one of her sister's episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister's things, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a place of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house, just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Ruthie Washburne has never put much stock in West Hall's rumors. Having grown up in an isolated farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer.
Summary: On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in love with Sam, a practical, sensible man who doesn't fear the dark and doesn't...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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McMahon, Jennifer.
Summary: For years 41-year-old Kate Cypher has avoided her childhood home, suppressing memories of her friend Del--dubbed Potato Girl by cruel classmates--whose murder 30 years prior has never been solved. Kate is certain that if she had done just two things differently on that fateful day, Del would still be alive. Now, Kate has returned to care for her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother, whose decent is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION McMMcMahon, Neil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000