Summary: After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves, and his relationship with his wife begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GOO
Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MASBernier, Nichole.
Summary: Inheriting her best friend's diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her late friend's life, from her deeply troubled childhood to her feelings of powerlessness as a wife and parent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERDavies, Nicola
Summary: "A young girl and her grandfather look for a barn owl night after night. Will a distinctive heart-shaped face appear at the window? Michael Foreman's lush, intimate paintings are a perfect companion to Nicola Davies's lyrical text featuring intriguing facts about a rare bird indeed."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DavieNicholl, Charles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 NICSummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WWII drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NAKSummary: The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STACoxon, Michèle.
Summary: Kitten is lost, and she's looking for a new place to live. Lift the flaps and help Kitten find the perfect place to curl up and call home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Toddler CoxonWallace, Nicolle.
Summary: Charlotte Kramer, the first female president, finds her marriage and the safety of the American people in peril after rumors of her husband's infidelity circulate and her national security advisor makes grave errors of judgment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALPhoenix, Michèle
Summary: "Michele Phoenix crafts a poignant story of a young woman recovering from the evils of this world through perseverance, hope, and the light in a centuries-old document"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PHOSummary: 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
Ammaniti, Niccolò
Summary: Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out of town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, 11-year-old Pietro reaches crisis point when his parents ignore his pleas for support and his schoolteacher turns her back on him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMMRoberts, Michèle
Summary: 2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBNickle, John.
Summary: Lucas learns a lesson about bullying when he is pulled into the ant hole he has been tormenting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NICWallace, Nicolle
Summary: "Charlotte Kramer, the forty-fifth president of the United States, has done the unprecedented in allowing a network news team to document a day in her life--and that of her most senior staff. But while twenty news cameras are embedded with the president, the unthinkable happens: five major attacks are leveled on US soil. Her secretary of defense, Melanie, and her press secretary, Dale, must...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWallace, Nicolle.
Summary: Vice President Tara Meyers struggles to redeem herself after a botched interview by working on a high-profile terror investigation that is complicated by allegations about the White House's culpability.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALNickle, David.
Summary: When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend-- a poltergeist, that spoke to her with flying knives and howling winds. She called it the Insect. And with a little professional help, she contained it. And the nightmare was over, at least for a time. But the nightmare never truly ended. As Ann grew from girl into young woman, the Insect grew with her. It became more than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOSAmmaniti, Niccol,̣
Summary: The economically depressed village of Varrano, where Cristiano Zena lives with his hard-drinking, out-of-work father, Rino, is a world away from the picturesque towns of travel brochure Italy. So when Rino and is cronies come up with a plan to reverse their fortunes, Cristiano wonders if maybe their lives are poised for deliverance after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMMNicholls, David
Summary: Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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Summary: "David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together--and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Nicholls 2014Carozzi, Nicolo
Summary: "A heroic little mouse leads three mischievous black cats on a wild and epic chase up and down and over and around and into the pantry as part of a plan to protect her best friend, a goldfish the cats have been frightening"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARNichols, Peter
Summary: "Set in small-town Maine, an English novelist-turned-detective investigates a serial killer preying on the historic town."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024