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Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Appreciation Fiction California Los Angeles California Los Angeles Hollywood Fathers and daughters Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Social life and customs 21st century Fiction New York (State) New York Single women Fiction Time travel Fiction United States Young women Conduct of lifeSummary: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INVSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Another comical compilation of the longest-running scripted show in television history has arrived. Season seventeen contains all 22 outrageous episodes, a vast repertoire of Springfieldian special features, plus a mind-blowing list of celebrity guest voices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIMCokal, Susann
Summary: Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Susann, Jacqueline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSDengler, Marianna
Summary: When a small, serious boy joins Amanda on the park bench, she remembers that once she was small and serious too, but she had Grandfather--and his wonderful stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northland Pub. 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION DenglerSeidler, Tor.
Summary: Mean Margaret, the tyrannical toddler, turns the lives of everyone around her upside down, from the human Hubble family to a pair of newlywed woodchucks, a squirrel, a snake, a skunk, and a couple of bats, until she discovers that there is more to life than being nasty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEIPreisler, Jerome
Summary: The number one threat to our nation's security is in cyberspace. The new US president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organization can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack. Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRERingler, Matt
Summary: A quick-thinking father thwarts his daughter's impending temper tantrum when he transforms an everyday walk outside into an exciting strollercoaster ride through the neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RINSeidler, Tor.
Summary: Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC SeiRigler, Laurie Viera.
Summary: Waking up in early 19th-century Britain is not a common occurrence for a 21st-century gal from L.A. Yet Courtney Stone, just having dumped her womanizing fiance, does wake up during the Regency era in the home and body of Jane Mansfield (yes, she acknowledges the irony), a woman of 30 who has just fallen from a horse. As Courtney realizes that she is not dreaming, she becomes attuned to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIGPreisler, Jerome
Summary: In Munich, a renowned computer scientist dies. Then, his daughter vanishes. Both under mysterious circumstances. Kali Alcazar, a master hacker, wants to know why. As she delves deeper into the suspicious events, she spots something in the sky, a rare, advanced drone, and realizes she's a target herself. A group of mercenary assassins has been assembled with just one goal: to stop Kali from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Preisler 2020Rigler, Laurie Viera.
Summary: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, inexplicably awakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes--who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIGSigler, Scott.
Summary: "The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious. The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launchedone last payload--a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race. That...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIGSloan, Susan R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOSloan, Susan R.
Summary: A Jewish high school teacher is falsely accused of murder, based on evidence of bigoted students. It happens on Seward Island, off Seattle after the murder of a 15-year-old pregnant girl, stabbed repeatedly in the stomach. Police chief Martinez and detective Ginger Early have an explosive case. By the author of Guilt by Association.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLORigler, Laurie Viera.
Summary: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, inexplicably awakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes--who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIGSummary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRENielsen-Fernlund, Susin
Summary: Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018