Summary: Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LOVSummary: "Your Future Is Bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselvs and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSamana
Contents: Melancholy heat -- Live for the road -- The spirit moving -- The beach -- Patience -- All one breath -- Passing me by -- Leaving -- Begin again
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SAMSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAURobison, James
Summary: "A book, geared towards conservative Christians with massappeal, that connects biblical principles with practical politics to have a lasting impact on our culture"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 ROBSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHRobison, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395.22 ROBSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trata solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. "Distancia de rescate" sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SCHSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHMistry, Rohinton
Summary: Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: "A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv,bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMistry, Rohinton
Summary: With his personal life unraveling, Gustad Noble, a Bombay bank clerk, agrees to help the Indian intelligence service, and is quickly caught up in a political scandal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISWillard Robison
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Irving Berlin 1928
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMJoinson, Suzanne.
Summary: It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient city of Kashgar on the Silk Road. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar , she is ready for adventure. In present day London, a young woman,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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Robison, Bruce.
Contents: Can't get there from here -- Bed of ashes -- Blame it on me -- Devil may care -- Valentine -- Friendless marriage (with Kelly Willis) -- What would Willie do -- First thing about Mary -- Sixteen -- Anyone but me -- Tonight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Boars Nest Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ROBRobison, Peter
Summary: "A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management--that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation Boeing is a century-old titan of American industry. The largest exporter in the US, it played a central role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. It remains a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ROBRobison, Mary.
Summary: "After a ten-year silence, Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. 'Why Did I Ever" takes US along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted like a furious and persuasive diary--a tale as fierce and taut as Money herself." -- Book cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRobison, Nancy.
Summary: Discusses the many types of ponies and how to buy and care for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crestwood House 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.16 ROBMistry, Rohinton
Summary: A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MISJoinson, Suzanne.
Summary: In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be missionaries in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOILang, Acantha
Contents: Sugar woman -- Come back home -- Beautiful dreams -- Eventually -- He said/She said -- Interlude: A word from my momma -- Lois Lang -- River keep runnin' -- It's gonna be alright -- Carry the weight -- Whatever happened to our love? -- Keep on -- Ride this train (extended version).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LANRobeson, Paul
Contents: John Henry -- On my journey -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Balm in Gilead -- Star vicino -- O'Isis and Osiris -- Prayer and death -- Spoken excerpt, birthday, 1952 -- Every time I feel the spirit -- No more auction block for me -- The house I live in -- Joe Hill -- Ol' man river -- Szivenem -- Jerusalem -- Deep river -- Curly headed baby -- Water boy -- All through the night --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Omega Classics 1992