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Africa, Sub-Saharan Social conditions Cultural geography Girls Juvenile fiction Hill, Tony, Doctor (Fictitious character) Fiction Human ecology Human geography Social aspects Jordan, Carol, Detective Chief Inspector (Fictitious character) Fiction Social ecology Social geography Women Crimes against FictionMcDermid, Val
Summary: "Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermid, Val
Summary: "Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MCDMcDermid, Val
Summary: "In Insidious Intent, Tony and Carol are on the hunt for a serial killer who forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away--only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermid, Val
Summary: "In the northern England, psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are on the hunt for a serial killer who picks up women at weddings without a date, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCDWinick, Judd
Summary: "There's only one person brave enough to save Earth once and for all, and that's Gina. The cost will be great. But with the help of one magical warrior cat, one flying bearacat, and a whole world that believes in her, Gina's going to try. Get ready for the most shocking Hilo yet--with more twists, more turns, more monsters, and more surprises than ever before. Because sometimes we're the hero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WINSummary: The 2009 installment in Wide Angle's Time for School series reenters the lives of seven students in seven different countries, offering a glimpse of the worldwide battle to get what most American children take for granted: a basic education. These riveting case studies in India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Japan, and Romania feature young teenagers embracing academic challenges that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Mignola, Michael
Summary: With Liz Sherman back in fiery action, two B.P.R.D. teams make their way through the monster-filled streets of the Manhattan wasteland in order to reach the Black Flame's fortress and take down his army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Takahiro
Summary: "Emotions are running high as the member of Night Raid storm the cathedral, but no one is remotely prepared for resistance from 'the Empire's strongest'-- Esdeath!!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKAMarney, Ellie
Summary: Travis Bell and Emma Lewis reunite to help the FBI capture a serial killer in Pittsburgh, and they must again turn to a notorious teenage sociopath and his twin sister for help finding the murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARTrott, Susan.
Summary: After Joe's benign death and sacred burial, his chosen successor, Anna, is abandoned at the storm-ravaged hermitage as the others, including her husband, are wooed away by the masterful Chen. Loyal Jacob, the holy bodyguard, goes to Austria to raise money to care for Anna and her children and takes the holy man's teaching with him. A Dutchman with his band of thugs pillages what is left in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outskirts Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROSlaughter, Karin
Summary: "On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who's been vanished into thin air. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast--followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta's busiest and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SLASlaughter, Karin
Summary: On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLASmith, Jeff
Summary: After stepping into a ghost circle, Thorn is urged to locate the Crown of Horns, and sets off on a quest with Fone Bone to traipse through the sacred grounds of dragons, with the hope of returning with the only thing that can save everyone and everything she holds dear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SMICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SMICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC SMIKimpton, Diana
Summary: When Princess Ellie and her friend Kate go to visit Prince John at his mountain palace, they get lost while riding their ponies in the snow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KIMFelix, Rebecca
Summary: "Kids can make their own fun with Cool Board Games! This title has everything needed to create one-of-a-kind board games. Readers will create Mini Magnetic Battleship, The Game of Your Life, Giant Outdoor Checkers and more! Step-by-step photos, materials lists, and extra tips and tricks get kids started"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 794 FELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J745.5 FELCoonts, Stephen
Summary: The daughter of an official at a minor bank in Estonia is kidnapped. CIA officer Tommy Carmellini is drawn into a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from the small bank to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself. In discovering the forces behind this blood-stained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Fiction 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coonts 2019Citro, Asia
Summary: Pip shows up with a new look that's just as surprising to him as it is to Zoey and Sassafras. When they retrace Pip's steps in the forest, they see another magical friend change right before their eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITCussler, Clive.
Summary: Organizing a group of fellow law enforcers to dismantle an Italian gangster mob that has spread throughout 1906 New York City, Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency begins to suspect that copycat criminals are using the gang's name to gain personalpower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSHering, Marianne.
Summary: Its 1852 and cousins Patrick and Beth sail to Fiji on the HMS Calliope under the command of Captain James E. Home. They arrive at the islands to find that the Christian Fijians are at war with the non-Christian Fijians. Missionary James Calvert is trying to make peace and suggests that the captain allow peace negotiations on board the British vessel. Patrick and Beth learn about sacrificial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HerSummary: Military conflict accompanied the spread of Islam during the Middle Ages. This program reveals the ironies of that union between war and faith: how Islam was adopted rather than marginalized by invading Mongols; how the rise of strict Islamic orthodoxy countered the scholarly advances of Arabic culture, weakening the empire; and how European appreciation of Islamic culture grew after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CALL NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 4Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2014Summary: Based on recent statistics, 90 percent of the world's orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa; 40 percent of African children work seven days a week; and many support themselves by prostitution or are subjected to enslavement. This program highlights the work of the Terre des Hommes Oasis Center, in Benin, which rescues, rehabilitates, and returns exploited children to their families; the Jinja...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In Africa, views on sex vary widely from conservative to liberal and from traditional to progressive. Topics covered in this program include gay rights, protected under the law only in post-apartheid South Africa; the practices of female genital excision and "dry sexual intercourse"-each described in detail-as they relate to severe female health issues and the violation of a woman's right to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As Africa continues to modernize, the influence of the media in daily life is growing ever larger. This program examines the importance of the press, radio, the Internet, and TV via segments involving the Sowetan, a widely circulated South African newspaper that has its roots in the anti-apartheid struggle; KKC Kagadi, a rural community radio station in Uganda; Kenya-based Africa Online, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009