Maier, Thomas
Contents: Golden girl -- Heartland -- Mrs. Johnson -- Never going home -- A wonder to behold -- The fertility expert -- The good wife -- Academic freedom -- Through the peephole -- The matrix -- The experiment -- Volunteers -- Noah -- Masks -- Leaving school -- A matter of trust -- Revealing secrets -- The human response -- The excitement of release -- Focusing feelings -- Sexual healing -- Surrogates --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 MAIMaier, Thomas
Summary: "Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, "kompromat" sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 MAIThos Allen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Jacobs 1905
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMThoms, Susan Collins.
Summary: Retells the story of how Noah and his family built an ark, saved two of every animal, and survived the flood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2012
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE THOSummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARThos H Bayly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Ditson 1913
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMHomer-Dixon, Thomas F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4833 HOMHaydn, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HAYAllen, Thos. S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calumet Music Co. 1940
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMThos B Weaver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willis Bugbee 1928
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMThoms, Susan Collins.
Summary: On each of the twelve days during her Christmas visit with her cousin Will, Katie writes home describing the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Michigan that she has explored. Uses the cumulative pattern of the traditional carol to present amusing state trivia at the end of each letter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E THOCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE THOSummary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRIThos S Allen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Jacobs 1904
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMThos S Allen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Jacobs 1904
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: Demonstrates how to make everyday reading more rewarding by helping readers understand the symbols, themes, narrative devices and forms, and contexts of literary works, in an edition geared toward young readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808 FOSFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 FOSFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 FOSWagner, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA WAGSummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXIFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character - and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 FOSRoberts, Tomos
Summary: A narrator describes life before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the social and personal changes that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBCoster, Theo.
Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE COSStevens, Thora
Summary: Do you want to learn a new, simple, and enjoyable activity that can help you relieve tension and anxiety while making beautiful knitted projects? Have you always wanted to try your hand at crocheting but weren't sure where to begin? Do you wish you had a thorough beginner's guide to crochet so you wouldn't get lost in the middle of a project? If there are any of these or similar questions in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VD Publishing 0000