Summary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made. A joyful mash up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films and the Iranian New Wave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GIRSummary: Blade : "Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade -- half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), his mentor, guardian, and fellow hunter of the night. When the bloodthirsty Immortals' lord, Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), declares war on the human race, Blade is humanity's last hope for survival." -- Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video, 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BlacklightGlass, Joe
Summary: "In The Pride, Fabman is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation, and injustice--not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GLASummary: An emotionally damaged ex-police detective goes back on the job after her seemingly happy marriage falls apart to investigate a serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MARMeruane, Lina
Summary: Una mujer sufre una severa hemorragia oftalmol?gica que alterar? sus relaciones con el entorno familiar y conyugal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MERChern, Lina
Summary: "A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHEMaslo, Lina
Summary: "The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness," her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teaching of Ukrainian culture. They've even taken the grain from Zlata's family's fields. But despite the danger, her parents refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISFisher, Lija
Summary: As thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren continues to search for the immortal cryptid, he finds that not only is the resistance getting more dangerous, so are the cryptids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISAlsenas, Linas.
Summary: A shy little princess, on an outing with her mother, gets a royal treat when she makes a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2012
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Summary: "Rhett Walker is looking for peace, the memories of all he's lost haunting his dreams. And now the Shadow tugs him West, back to where his journey began. With the lawless Rangers on his heels and monster attacks surging, Rhett is surrounded on all sides. This time it's not all about horses and land. This time, it feels personal. Because the newest monster on the horizon just may be wearing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWRiesen, Lila
Summary: "Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIEBowen, Lila
Summary: "The sequel to Conspiracy of Ravens and third novel in Lila Bowen's widely-acclaimed Shadow series. The Ranger known as Rhett has shut down a terrible enterprise running on the blood of magical folk, but failed to catch the dark alchemist behind it. And now the Shadow refuses to let him rest. Rhett must make the ultimate transformation if he has any hope of stopping the alchemist or fulfilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWO'Hart, Sinead
Summary: Tess de Sousa leaves Miss Ackerbee's orphanage to live with her new guardian in Roedeer Lodge, taking with her a fondness for scientific experimentation, a pet tarantula named Violet, and a device that allows her to travel to parallel universes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC O'HAAdams, Alina
Summary: "Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADAMahmoud, Lena
Summary: Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHHuang, Ling Ling
Summary: "In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: At night, a host of woodland creatures plays with a child's red sled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E JUDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Toddler Judge 2011Luna, Jonathan
Summary: "Alex took a huge risk to unlock Ada-she can now think for herself and explore life as a sentient android. As Alex and Ada spend more time together, they become closer. But, as restrictions tighten on artificial intelligence, Ada feels unsure about her place in the world and Alex questions being with an android"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUNLuna, Louisa.
Summary: Melody is just out of prison and struggling to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. Haunted by glimpses of her owwn harrowing girlhood and of the mysterious circumstances that put her in prison in the first place, she slowly, bravely begins to forge a potential path toward redemption and escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Books/Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNMina, Denise
Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise
Summary: An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019