Ekster, Carol Gordon
Summary: Athena thinks that her father, who drives a truck, has the most amazing job in the world, but she is having trouble convincing her classmates--until she comes up with a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EKSRoyston, Angela
Summary: "Truck Trouble is a beautifully designed reader all about the troubles of a truck driver making special deliveries - will the parcels get there on time? Children will love to find out about a truck driver's day, from loading parcels to getting through traffic and thunderstorms to making someone's day with a special parcel! "
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Philo Beddoe, the easygoing truck driver and bare-knuckle brawler, and his 165-pound orangutan pal, Clyde, get into more mischief in this faster and funnier sequel to Every Which Way but Loose. Beddoe is hoping to 'retire' from fighting. But a new contender lures him back, and mobsters kidnap his girl to ensure he'll turn up for the showdown. Ma, Orville, and those hapless motorcycle morons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANYSummary: A trucker, whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck," is pursued through three states by an implacable police officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONAnderson, James
Summary: "A trucker sets out to protect an abandoned child in the Utah desert...Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSummary: During NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. Brilliantly photographed and intoxicatingly intimate, this film signals the arrival of a major talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOALondon, Jonathan
Summary: A boy imagines what it would be like to drive a big rig across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LondoSummary: Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Doug is the king, but his wife Carrie really rules the roost. Doug is the ultimate guy's guy from Queens, New York. A blue-collar husband who loves his wife so much he is willing to sacrifice his rec room so her father, Arthur can move in, a decision he's been regretting ever since. Doug's free time is split between quality time with his wife and play time with his buddies. This king proves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: Young widow Tanpopo attempts to start a small ramen noodle restaurant. She has little success until she meets Gorō, a cowboy-hat-wearing truck driver who decides to helps her to make the perfect bowl of top ramen. A story that features various subplots and an eclectic group of supporting characters, all of whom have expressively passionate relationships with food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAMHill, Joe
Summary: "In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC HILOhanesian, Diane
Summary: "A rhyming picture book that asks different kinds of big-wheeled workers how they feel about their various jobs."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This guide is designed to prepare professional and prospective truck and trailer drivers for the tests required by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 BARSummary: A man who finds himself unable to hold down a job is asked to drive a truck across the country, and when he finds out what he is delivering he is faced with a life-changing choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 0000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PG13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrHamilton, Shane
Contents: Food and power in the New Deal, 1933-42 -- Chaos, control, and country trucking, 1933-42 -- Food fights in war and peace, 1942-52 -- Trucking culture and politics in the agribusiness era, 1953-61 -- Beef trusts and asphalt cowboys -- The milkman and the milk hauler -- Agrarian trucking culture and deregulatory capitalism, 1960-80.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 HAMSummary: Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARSummary: Jack Burton is a big-talking, wisecracking trucker who goes beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to battle an army of spirits when his friend's fiancee is kidnapped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BIGSummary: Joe, a struggling truck driver, is haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and daughter. Joe's life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Julia, a woman with mysterious spiritual powers, whose daughter, Billie, lies in a coma. Julia enlists Joe's help to stop Billie from crossing over to the spirit world, but when Billie awakes, her body is possessed, by the vengeful spirit of Joe's dead wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BETSummary: Get ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit, a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet; delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus and runaway bride Carrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Smokey 2017Reynolds, Burt
Summary: Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMOButcher, Amy
Summary: Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe - the nation's only female ice road trucker. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, AMY BUT1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, AMY BUT
Hayes, Frank
Summary: "Buddy Hinton is just a good ole boy. So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull, his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and will eventually come back. But this case quickly becomes a homicide after the sheriff discovers the missing man floating in one of his stock tanks. For a man who wasn't known to have enemies, Buddy clearly upset...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Murphy, Finn
Summary: A long-haul trucker reflects on the changing realities of the working class as witnessed during journeys ranging from the I-95 Powerland and the Florida Everglades to the truck stops of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017