Summary: Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding, armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Despite his cool efficiency, the plot quickly spirals out of control, sending Jay and his hostage on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi, as all the while attractions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEDSummary: Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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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 MISS NOT RATEDNieh, Daniel
Summary: A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur, in fact he was part of a vast international...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Nieh 2019Nieh, Daniel
Summary: "A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIEWish, Katia
Summary: After perfecting the art of snowman-building, Raccoon coaches his friends to build their own but their imperfect creations make everyone unhappy until they try again, working together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WISShawl, Nisi
Summary: Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAAmish
Summary: A tale inspired by Hindu mythology is set in a powerful empire in ancient Meluha, where a hero foretold in legend rises to save his people from the threats of a dying river and Chandravanshis terrorism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmish.
Summary: Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Westland 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmish.
Summary: The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path of evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Westland
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMINguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUSummary: After twelve years in prison, a convicted sex offender struggles to regain the life he lost, while grappling with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOShawl, Nisi
Summary: An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Woodlawn 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOO RATED PGLish, Atticus
Summary: "From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISMcBride, Lish
Summary: Forced to live as a beast forever unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her 18th birthday, Merit Cravan joins forces with a con artist who is her only hope in finding the best match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCBSharma, Nisha
Summary: Told in two voices, teens Radha and Jai, seniors at a New Jersey performing arts high school, reignite their passion for dance and find strength in one another to pursue their dreams. Radha is on the verge of becoming one of the greatest Kathak dancers in the world until a family betrayal costs her the biggest competition of her life. She leaves her Chicago home behind to follow her stage mom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHASummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. When their father, Mr. Luong, summons them home for his American citizenship party, Van and Linny find themselves communing about their past, their late mother, their father's obsession with his Luong Arm invention for short people, even the irony of their romantic straits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADASharma, Nisha
Summary: "Kareena dreams of having a perfect love story ... That's why on the morning of her thirtieth birthday, she's decided to ... enter the dating arena ... Prem doesn't have time for romance, which is why it's no surprise when his first meeting with Kareena goes awry. Their second encounter is worse when their on-air debate about love goes viral. Now Prem's largest community center donor is backing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASharma, Nisha
Summary: Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well--until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group's temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHANash, Scott
Summary: When Duckie, a terry cloth duck, loses his brain and can no longer tell stories to the other toys, Tuff Fluff the private investigator must solve the case.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NasRabe, Tish
Summary: An introduction to the world of Dr. Seuss is designed to be read by expectant parents to their baby-to-be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015