Summary: Presents the story of a victorious Roman general whose rigid code of honor and duty proves to be his downfall. A shocking journey into the depths of the human heart, a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TITSummary: When several diamonds are stolen from a jewelry store in Marseilles, the heist bears the hallmarks of the supposedly retired Pink Panther gang. After a child is accidentally killed in their getaway, the thieves resort to desperate measures to fence the jewels. This sparks a series of events that set a British insurance-loss adjuster, a French-Algerian cop, and a Serbian soldier turned diamond...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROCRania
Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RanMacy, William H.
Summary: Follows the lives of the Gallagher family, six children who live with their alcoholic father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: A police chief in a small town is investigating a brutal double murder and all the evidence is beginning to point to him. He is in a race against time to solve the crime before the other officers investigating the crime begin to see the clues and think he did it. With the help of his medical examiner pal Chae, Matt must solve the case before he is found guilty himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The BAFTA-winning hit series returns, as DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrapyard. Four suspects emerge; all have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then their lives have gone in very different directions. But exactly who is fighting for justice? Can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNFSpain
Summary: This book is the collection of the artist's autobiographical short stories, memoirs of his misspent youth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RODMcCloskey, Shanda
Summary: Charlotte has a talent for anything technological, so when she receives a doll as a present, she upgrades it with a few spare parts and some code to create a new and improved friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: "Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking. Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHSummary: Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AJAMiles, Shanna
Summary: Through countless lives, seventeen-year-olds Tamar and Fayard have fallen in love, fought to be together, and died but when they discover what it will take to break the cycle, will they be able to make the sacrifice? Tamar is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. Fayard is a pioneer, a hustler, a hopeless romantic. Together they have lived a thousand lives, seen the world build itself up from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILEng, Tan Twan.
Summary: Takes the readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire, with a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and into manhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENGSwain, James.
Summary: A specialist in finding missing persons, ex-cop Jack Carpenter is stunned when he is hired by convicted serial killer Abb Smith to find Smith's grandson, only to discover that the case involves Heather Rinker, a childhood friend of Jack's own daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAPetroff, Shani
Summary: "Madden's life is a whirlwind of privilege and perks. Born into the elite Purple ring, she is fated to be a Minister of the Seven. Although her position comes with the burden of great responsibility, she's nothing if not confident in her future. Her classmate Dax, an Ash, is clinging to the opposite end of the spectrum. While everyone around her knows what destiny awaits them, Dax's fate is......
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETTrent, Shanda.
Summary: Follows an eager young girl on a trip to the farmers' market with her parents as she contemplates what to buy with the money from her piggy bank.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2013
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Summary: Ex-cop Tony Valentine heads for south Florida at the request of the security chief at Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino to uncover the crooks and hustlers who are preying on the local gamblers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAEng, Tan Twan.
Summary: Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2012
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Summary: "Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P TANYoungdahl, Shana
Summary: "In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YOUTan, Twan Eng
Summary: In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary-a confession that has devastating consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAN1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TAN