Patterson, James
Summary: Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LIttle, Brown and Co. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYS PATUrofsky, Melvin I.
Summary: From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable" --Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court ("Riveting"--Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.13 URODesmond, Matthew
Summary: "[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 DESMargolin, Jamie
Summary: "The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GO, Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320.0835 MARSummary: During this exciting pivotal season: Clark faces rogue Kryptonians, Lex Luthor launches a vicious political campaign, the Fortress of Solitude rises, Clark's love for Lana Lang deepens and he and Lois Lane remain friendly adversaries, Clark crosses paths with AC (aka Aquaman), Victor Stone (aka Cyborg) and the mysterious Milton Fine (aka Brainiac).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SMAStevens, Michelle
Summary: "Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist--an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks Michelle in a cage, tortures her repeatedly, and uses her to quench his voracious and deviant sexual whims....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEVENS, MICHELLE STESummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILThomas, Angie
Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD FRENCH THOWhite, Stephen
Summary: Forest fires are reducing chunks of the Boulder Valley to tinder and ash; Colorado clinical psychologist Alan Gregory's colleague and close friend, still recovering from a terrible trauma, appears to be approaching a psychological breakdown; and new evidence in an old case causes Alan to reexamine decisions he made in the past, putting his entire career at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIMa-Kellams, Christine
Summary: "The biting literary satire of The Sellout meets the pulsing thrill of Mouth to Mouth in this darkly humorous, surreal debut about a seductive, but problematic bond between an unhappily married therapist and the cancelled K-Pop idol she meets at a Los Angeles H Mart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEOseman, Alice
Summary: "The Heartstopper Yearbook is packed full of exclusive content from the Heartstopper universe: never-before-seen illustrations, an exclusive minicomic, character profiles, trivia, and insight into Alice Oseman's creative process, narrated by a cartoon version of Alice herself. In full-color for the first time, this companion book is perfect for fans of Heartstopper!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HEALee, JuYoun.
Summary: Alice encounters a fully clothed white rabbit who drags her into a rabbit hole, turns into a young man with rabbit ears, and leads her into a dangerous land where bizarre citizens wield dangerous weapons. She becomes more accustomed to life in Wonderland, but she soon discovers a secret that will change everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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Summary: When a former student bungles the investigation of a mother-daughter double murder, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin discovers a link between the case and a series of escalating attacks. A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote coastal home, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince. When a former student...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBVargas, Fred.
Summary: When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, the press take up the story with amusement and psychiatrists trot out their theories. Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, a policeman, is alone in thinking that this is not a game and far from amusing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions J'ai lu 2008
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHShelby, Ashley
Summary: " Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: Si on aime l'insolite tant dans l'intrigue que chez les personnages, voici un roman policier tráes âecrit et rempli de digressions divertissantes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions J'ai lu 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: Psychologist Alex Delaware joins forces with brothers Moe Reed and Aaron Fox as they seek to uncover secrets in high places that could explain the fate of an outwardly innocent young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2009
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Summary: Quiver tells the story of Danica, a forensic psychologist who works at a former insane asylum-turned-forensic hospital. One of Danica's mental patients is Malcolm Foster, who is imprisoned for murdering a fourteen-year-old girl. Foster is a menacing but fascinating patient and Danica begins to suspect that Foster may have been the head of a gothic cabal idolizing Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUHMusso, Guillaume
Summary: Paris, un atelier d'artiste caché au fond d'une allée verdoyante. Madeline l'a loué pour s'y reposer et s'isoler. À la suite d'une méprise, cette jeune flic londonienne y voit débarquer Gaspard, un écrivain misanthrope venu des États-Unis pour écrire dans la solitude. Ces deux écorchés vifs sont contraints de cohabiter quelques jours. L'atelier a appartenu au célèbre peintre Sean Lorenz et...
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Publisher / Publication Date: XO Editions 2017
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 MUS FRENCHMaihack, Mike
Summary: "During an average morning of heroic deeds, Spider-Man is interrupted by the Fantastic Four and Namor with distressing news: The great underwater city of Atlantis has disappeared, and the heroes need Spider-Man's help to find it! While Spider-Man takes on the uncertain mission hoping not to disappoint the heroes... But when other super heroes start going missing around the city, Spidey realizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Petersen, Sandy
Summary: Ghoul Island is the first campaign adventure for Sandy Petersen’s Cthulhu Mythos and can be easily introduced into any 5E fantasy setting. The first act, Voyage to Farzeen, will take PCs from 1st level to 5th. It begins with a mutiny and ends in the underground tunnels where our adventurers discover an ancient temple dedicated to a horror thought to have been vanquished long ago!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Petersen Games 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.93 PETWhite, Stephen
Summary: The brilliant, determined murderer Michael McClelland has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital--and he's coming after Alan Gregory's family. The timing couldn't be deadlier; like a wounded animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland holds the most powerful weapons of all: secrets from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIRaatma, Lucia.
Summary: Introduces readers to the Polish language, with information about where it is spoken, who speaks it, and what alphabet it uses, as well as lessons of basic Polish phrases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012
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Summary: The epic story of Ghoul Island continues with Ghoulocracy in which the adventurers investigate a subterranean temple of eldritch horror occupied by the necrophages of Farzeen. Narrowly escaping an encounter with the nascent elder influence of a Great Old One they emerge to find Farzeen nigh unrecognizable, and their allies have fled to the nearby jungles.The good islanders of Farzeen will not...
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