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Summary: "Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures; and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want and think they need: a low-slung sky-blue 1984 Buick Electra. The car, too, has seen its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker, Michael
Summary: Offers conversation starters for parents to help their children develop non-cognitive skills and understand such concepts as lying, bullying, torture, fate, vegetarianism, looting after disasters, and speed limits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 PARParker, Michael
Summary: Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. With poetic intensity and the deadpan humor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker Pearson, Michael
Summary: The story and discoveries of the seven year long excavation project at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 936.2319 PARSummary: Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Calendar 2003Aronson, Marc.
Summary: Explores the mysterious monument of Stonehenge and reveals some of its secrets and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 936.2 AROSummary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HENSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYBrandman, Michael.
Summary: "The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BRAChabon, Michael
Summary: "Awesome Man's secret identity has stayed safe, and he's still the coolest superhero around. He loves protecting the people of Awesome City from evildoers, like the giant Plutonian octolizard, with his trusty sidekick, Moskowitz. But there have been reports that a new hero is coming to town soon. What if the people of Awesome City no longer need Awesome Man?"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHABrandman, Michael.
Summary: When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise Police Department go on high alert. When Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRASummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MULCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Summary: Carrie continues her romance with a Russian artist, a flippantly arrogant man who's been around the block, but he is able to supply Carrie's needed desire for magic. Miranda has settled down with Steve, but there is more that will change with her, including her address. Charlotte continues to make baby plans now that the husband slot is filled quite nicely. Samantha brings a good sense of drama...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SEXBrandman, Michael.
Summary: Summer in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic season?--but not this time. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, reasonably talented, and scared out of her wits that her estranged husband's jealousy might take a dangerous turn. When she becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRABrandman, Michael.
Summary: With summer just weeks away, Chief of Police Jesse Stone is pretty tense-- and not just because Paradise, MA, is gearing up for the tourists. Stone finds himself dealing with car thefts, then murder, then someone who's come to town to remind him of his not-so-happy past as an L.A. cop. Fans mourning Parker's death will be happy to see that Brandman, who has written and produced numerous TV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: A young superhero describes his awesome powers, which he then demonstrates as various foes arrive on the scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2011
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Summary: Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone's investigation of a violent series of car thefts is complicated by political pressures, the summer tourist season, and the questionable goals of an ambitious PR executive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brandman 2011Brandman, Michael.
Summary: When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BRABrandman, Michael.
Summary: With summer just weeks away, Chief of Police Jesse Stone is pretty tense--and not just because Paradise, MA, is gearing up for the tourists. Stone finds himself dealing with car thefts, then murder, then someone who's come to town to remind him of his not-so-happy past as an L.A. cop. Fans mourning Parker's death will be happy to see that Brandman, who has written and produced numerous TV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRASummary: Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010