Summary: This confessional monologue depicts the decay of one man as a result of his addiction to alcohol. Pomerleau's portrayal brings to vivid life that character as he evolves from a lover of animals and a caring husband to a demon facing the ultimate horror.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This classic tale of revenge and murder depicts a victim lured to his doom by the false promise of riches-in this case, a highly prized cask of vintage wine. Pomerleau portrays both victim and villain with consummate skill as greed is punished with inescapable and eternal imprisonment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: If "The Raven" is not the best-known American poem, then "Annabel Lee" is. Both have endured because they successfully illustrate Poe's esthetic theories of poetics; they use natural, comprehensible language whose music weaves a spell that underscores and heightens the language. These two poems and "The Dream within a Dream" are performed (not merely read!) as Poe himself might have recited...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Here is Poe weaving a web of psychological terror as a murderer recounts the bizarre details of his crimes against "the old man with the evil eye. The intensity and emotion build as the murderer becomes unhinged, a victim of his own crime. Again, the strength of Pomerleau's performance enables the audience to feel the power of Poe's macabre imagination.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Drakeford, Scott
Summary: "Scott Drakeford's epic fantasy debut, Rise of the Mages combines gripping, personal vengeance with compelling characters for an action packed first book in a trilogy. Emrael Ire wants nothing more than to test to be a weapons master. His final exam will be a bloody insurrection, staged by corrupt nobles and priests, that enslaves his brother. With the aid of his War Master tutor, herself an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAAbercrombie, Joe
Summary: The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specializes in disappointments....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEForbes, Lani
Summary: Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORKnight, E. E.
Summary: After escaping those who killed his siblings, Young Auron, a rare, defenseless gray dragon, fears he might be the last of his breed. Armed with nothing but his claws and a boundless determination to survive, he sets off in search of his kind. But to find other dragons--or, at least, find out who's killing them off-Auron will have to search a world of mercenary elves, vicious humans, and dangers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNISchlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)
Summary: "Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH VOL 1Hoffman, Paul
Summary: Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFOgden, Charles.
Summary: The sinister siblings, twins Edgar and Ellen, kidnap the pets of Nod's Limb's youngest citizens and turn them into "rare beasts" in hopes of making money to finance future pranks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OGDLescroart, John
Summary: In San Francisco, a black lawyer is mistaken for a killer and lynched by whites. A white bystander trying to save him by cutting the rope is photographed holding a knife and portrayed by a newspaper as the mob's leader. The city explodes into violence, politicians outdo each other calling for retribution and a decent man runs for his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS LESHarrison, Kim
Summary: "Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic-and that's never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she's parlayed her rare ability to handle dross--the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin's spellwork--into a decent life working at the mages' university. Except Grady's relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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Summary: Everyone in Southridge knows about the legend of the Gravemother. They know how to leave offerings by the abandoned house she was supposedly murdered in to pacify her. They know better than to trespass on her property. But not everyone believes in the tale--especially not fourteen-year-old Rhett, who lives around the corner from the old mansion. Then it's announced that the Gravemother's place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHUCalmenson, Stephanie
Summary: Meet Allie and Amy: best, best, best friends. This summer they have big, big, big plans: 1. Get their fortunes told by Madame Lulu. 2. Go to the Spring Street fair. 3. Skate and sing backward. 4. Swim at the town pool. 5. Make a new list of things to do. And they are going to do everything together, no matter who or what--this means you, Marvin and Camp Merry Moose--gets in their way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Quix 2020
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Calmenson 2020Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CALBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: Ace has built her own go-kart, but when she is ready for a test run it will not start, and she has to figure out what part is missing--and then in the middle of the race something else goes wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BRICraven, M. W.
Summary: A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but socially awkward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Constable 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRABurach, Ross
Summary: Whether it is best friends picture day or the waggle dance, Bumble and Bee buzz around the pond, trying to engage Froggy in their playful activities--even coming up with a terrifying way to cure Froggy's hiccups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Mead, Richelle.
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and Bloodline series returns with the second installment in her acclaimed Age of X series. Gameboard of the Gods introduced religious investigator Justin March and Mae Koskinen, the beautiful supersoldier assigned to protect him. Together they have been charged with investigating reports of the supernatural and the return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEAStackpole, Michael A.
Summary: Efforts of the three grandchildren of royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a master mapmaker whose unparalleled magical ability allows him to reshape the landscape of reality, to save their world from destruction. Major threats include an undead, soulless prince hell-bent on usurping the crown from his empress stepmother and a vengeance-obsessed elder god determined to undo all of creation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STALasky, Kathryn
Summary: It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LASSummary: With the Shinjuku Battle behind him and Mika lost to the side of the vampires, Yuichiro begins searching for a way to turn his old friend back into a human. But first, he and the rest of his squad must focus on controlling the powerful demons they've made contracts with. If they hope to survive, they'll have to walk the line between being possessed by their demon's powers and being completely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SERStackpole, Michael A.
Summary: "Under the shadow of invasion by a nameless enemy, there seems only one way to save Nalenyr from oblivion. The old heroes who once defended the land must be awakened. And accomplishing that requires a journey across the magical wasteland where they're rumored to be trapped - a wasteland rife with magic and danger." "Grandson of the Royal Cartographer, Keles Anturasi finds himself trapped in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAMartin, George R. R.
Summary: "Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015