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Summary: "A contributor-based, female-focused resource that helps women travel safer, smarter, and more mindfully"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.82 VARKaras, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Life as a teenager is hard. Life gets even harder when you're a teenager suffering from a life-threatening illness. Compound illness, adolescence, and the fact that you're spending most of your time in the hospital; life can get very lonely. The only person who could possibly understand may be a teenager living a similar life. When two critically ill teens met at a hospital, only time will tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIVSummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISContents: CD 1. Independent Jamaica (Lord Creator) -- Blow Roland blow (Joanne Gordon & Roland Alphonso) -- Malcolm X (The Skatalites) -- Mouth a massy (Alton Ellis) -- Take it easy (Hopeton Lewis) -- Ba ba boom (The Jamaicans) -- Such is life (Lord Creator) -- I love the reggay (The Gaylads) -- Love of the common people (Nicky Thomas) -- Cherry oh baby (Eric Donaldson) -- Java (Augustus Pablo) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VP Music Group Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE OUTNikakoi.
Contents: Disc 1 Cverty2 for may -- City lights (Tutta2) -- Minimisss 3 -- Pp -- Shunat -- Music 2 piano -- Teess -- Krasnagorsky dream -- Petja -- AdgilCX -- HACPYBYXO -- Bavshwebi -- Tin soldier for Nika Ono -- Undine 2 -- Child
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laboratory Instinct 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC NIKSummary: A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KNICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KnCopies Available at East Bay
2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KNICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Knives 2020Summary: The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INVargas, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam-and how she dealt with this anxiety as she came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VARGAS, ELIZABETH VARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VARGAS VARVargas, Fred
Summary: Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according to popular legend, werewolves have no hair on their bodies because they are inside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHVargas, Fred.
Summary: On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut, and despite the common assumption that the crime is a drug-related incident, Commissaire Adamsberg becomes convinced that the deaths are the work of a serial killer with split personalities and enlists the assistance of pathologist Ariane Lagarde to help him unravel the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARSummary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ONESummary: A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2005
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SABWiki
Contents: Islander -- Mayor -- Pretty bull -- Made for this -- Chinatown swing -- Litt 15 -- Face it -- Stick ball -- Elaine -- Pandora's box -- Wiki new written -- Jalo -- Nutcrackers -- Baby girl -- NMIM -- Leppy coqui -- Hands out -- Ballin on the low.
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Publisher / Publication Date: XL Recordings 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WIKVargas, Fred.
Summary: Une dame âgée est retrouvée morte chez elle. Tout laisse penser à un suicide. Sauf un étrange motif dessiné à proximité de la baignoire. C'est le départ d'une enquête qui va mener Adamsberg et ses hommes dans le Creux, coin perdu des Yvelines, mais aussi en Islande, sur un bout de roche maudit nommé l'île aux Renards et leur faire remonter le temps, à l'époque de la Révolution, et des séances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHVargas, Fred.
Summary: "When Commissaire Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London's Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. With the help of the murdered man's gifted physician, Adamsberg delves into the victim's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas, Fred
Summary: Si on aime l'insolite tant dans l'intrigue que chez les personnages, voici un roman policier tráes âecrit et rempli de digressions divertissantes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions J'ai lu 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHVargas, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Gale 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M VARVargas, Fred.
Summary: A small mountain community in the French Alps is horrified when a sheep is found with its throat torn out. One villager believes it may be a werewolf, and she subsequently suffers a similar death. Commissaire Adamsberg is summoned from the city to assist in the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas, Fred.
Summary: Une jeune fille assassinée par trois coups de poinçon, un ivrogne qui ne se souvient de rien mais que tout accuse... Pour le commissaire Adamsberg, il n'y a aucun doute : le passé refait surface. Le tueur au trident est de retour. Celui-là même qui avait poignardé la fiancée de Raphaël, le frère du commissaire, des années plus tôt dans leur contrée natale des Pyrénées. Seul hic : l'homme est...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J'ai lu 2013
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHIlilonga, Rikki.
Contents: Tsegulani -- Mpondolo -- Walk and fight -- The sun -- Dark sunrise -- One reply -- The wings of Africa -- Jekete yamankowa : part 1 -- Jekete yamankowa : part 2 -- Chalo chawama -- Ng ombe Shala -- Mpulula -- Smoke -- Sansa kuwa -- Sheebeen queen -- Stop dreaming Mr. D -- The hole -- Hot fingers -- Se keel me queek -- The nature of man -- Musamuseka -- Zambia -- The queen blues -- Love is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2010