Pierce, Bethany
Summary: As Olivia, a sixteen-year-old anorexic high school girl who is fixated on becoming the impossible perfection of airbrushed magazine models, encounters small-town prying and a small rental house, she escapes through her art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIESummary: Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAU RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUHughes, Bettany
Summary: Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul-- one city, where stories and histories collide. The gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Hughes takes us on an historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. This is the story not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.1 HUGHughes, Bettany.
Summary: For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.352 HUGPeace
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Traffic Entertainment Group 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN PEABierce, Ambrose
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 BIEPiercy, Marge.
Summary: Brings together a collection of poems, recipes, personal reminiscences, and an insightful new interpretation of the rituals and symbols of the seder in a guide to creating a meaningful Passover for the entire family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.4 PIESummary: A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALIWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: A feisty little girl learns who the real monsters are in this brilliantly funny medieval adventure. Once, there lived a little girl called Bo. Bo wanted to be just like her brothers and capture a fearsome monster. Bo is small, too small to catch a monster--or so her brothers say. But Bo isn't one to take no for an answer, so she sets off on a quest to catch a monster of her own. Can she defeat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Suffering from severe memory loss, a young man leaves a loving wife and family for a cross-country road trip with an Army buddy. But the resurfacing memories prove to be too much for him and trigger a violent breakdown that threatens the life he is fighting to rebuild.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDPiercy, Marge.
Contents: To be of use (2:01) -- No one came home (6:25) -- Choices (1:49) -- Sneak and peek (3:01) -- If they come in the night (1:45) -- What's that smell in the kitchen? (1:21) -- Rape poem (2:45) -- Woman in the shoe (1:33) -- The good old days (2:11) -- The perpetual migration (2:46) -- The market economy (1:04) -- The nine of cups (2:53) -- The token woman (2:13) -- Right to life (3:59) -- For two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Leapfrog Press 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN PiercPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PIERoberts, Bethan
Summary: "Soon to be a motion picture starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love. It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten-determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: "A mysterious creature is running wild and terrorizing a village of Vikings. Can three little girls uncover the source and put an end to the mayhem?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE WOOWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: "In a fairy tale twist, Hansel and Gretel ransack Willow the good witch's gingerbread cottage and play havoc with her spells, driving the poor witch to her wit's end."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2018
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE WOOBierce, Ambrose
Summary: This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIEBierce, Ambrose
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 BIEBierce, Ambrose
Contents: The death of Halpin Frayser -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch --One summer night -- The moonlit road -- A diagnosis of death -- Moxon's master -- A tough tussle -- One of twins -- The haunted valley -- A jug of syrup --Staley Fleming's hallucination -- A resumed identity -- A baby tramp -- The night-doings at 'Deadman's' -- Beyond the wall -- A psychological shipwreck --The middle toe of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildside Press 1909
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEBierce, Ambrose
Summary: A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: On her way to Grandma's house, Little Red meets a wolf. Which might scare some little girls. But not this little girl. She knows just what the wolf is up to, and she's not going to let him get away with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: "The prisoner of an evil witch, Rapunzel lives all alone in a tall, dark tower. If she ever escapes, the witch will put a terrible curse her. But is Rapunzel frightened? Oh no, not she!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOPiercey, Rachel
Summary: "Throughout the woodland, someone kind has hidden one hundred eggs to find . . . Join Bear and his friends as they set off to find and count one hundred eggs. A delightful board book, perfect for the youngest nature spotters."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Frankel, Bethenny
Summary: With more than thirty simple, delicious recipes (including her famous SkinnyGirl Margarita), a one-week program to jump-start readers on the Naturally Thin lifestyle, and warm, witty encouragement on every page, Frankel serves up a book for a healthier and thinner life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009