Moshiri, Farnoosh.
Summary: The Drum Tower is Farnoosh Moshiri's fourth work of fiction concerned with the deleterious effects of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This novel, told by a mentally ill, 16-year-old girl, depicts the fall of Drum Tower, the house of a family descended from generations of War Ministers. Rich in characters--Talkhoon, who struggles to control the winds she hears inside her head and who tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Heron Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSTomasi, Peter
Summary: "Batman and Robin Vol. 5 collects the DC Comics--The New 52 origin of Two-Face and Carrie Kelley! The origin of Two-Face begins as Batman finds himself in the crossfire of a vengeful war between Two-Face and Erin McKillen! Both are hell bent on killing each other and anyone else who dares to step between them. And what are the mysterious connections between Harvey Dent's life and the origin of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATTomasi, Peter.
Summary: It's the prelude to "The Blackest Night" as the "War of Light" continues to intensify! Mongul attempts to establish his hold on the Sinestro Corps by enslaving the planet Daxam and making it the home world of his Corps. What does Sinestro's right hand man, Arkillo, think of all this? And will Sodam Yat, the Green Lantern known as Ion, fight to save his homeworld, which he's vowed to never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC TOMSummary: After musical mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons with succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMSummary: At the end of Season Four, the Lyons lost Empire. However, Lucious (Terrence Howard) and Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) finally found their way to each other and said their "I do's." In Season Five, two years have passed, and the Lyons have yet to reclaim Empire. The family has experienced unimagined tragedies and now must join forces to rebuild from scratch. As their plans begin to take shape, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: Empire returns for a third season, with its hottest music and most tantalizing storylines yet. While Lucious launches Empire's music streaming division, his half-brother Tariq launches a murder investigation of Lucious. And as Cookie's romance with Angelo Dubois heats up, so does Angelo's campaign for mayor. The Lyon brothers face troubles from the past, and all the while, the battle to control...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: The hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and life-threatening conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSorell, Traci
Summary: "At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORChee, Traci
Summary: In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper's daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHECarrington, Tori.
Summary: Sofie Metropolis longs for a return to investigating mundane missing pet cases, but her Christmas wish does not come true as she takes a kidnapping case that puts her life at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARChee, Traci
Summary: After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHEChee, Traci
Summary: "Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEEDePree, Traci.
Summary: The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay! A hopeful story of facing the challenges of life with courage and learning to see with eyes of grace, "Dandelions in a Jelly Jar" gently reminds you that the best bouquets are dandelions. -Goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEPChee, Traci
Summary: "Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEChee, Traci
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEDePree, Traci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEPSorell, Traci
Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORBovalino, Tori
Summary: "When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he'll stop at nothing to stay free. He'll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he'll murder in the stacks, and he'll bleed into every inch of Tess's life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOVMcGee, Tori
Summary: Somewhere in his travels, Mel the narwhal has made a wrong turn and ended up thousands of miles from home! Luckily, he's adopted by a pod of beluga whales who treat Mel as if he were one of their own. Inspired by actual events, The Lost Narwhal is a story about embracing your uniqueness and learning what it means to feel accepted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Tori McGee] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGBovalino, Tori
Summary: Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOVBovalino, Tori
Summary: "Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women--the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market--until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street publishing Co. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOVSummary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001