Summary: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LOOWalker, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Walter.
Summary: Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalken, Christopher
Summary: After twenty-five years of playing together, a renowned string quartet learns that their cellist will retire due to health concerns, causing an emotional upheaval amongst the remaining members.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LATSummary: Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino On Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: In a world where demigods and demons walk among mortals, the Emperor of the vast Burnt Empire has died, leaving a turbulent realm without an emperor. Two young princes, Adri and Shvate, are in line to rule, but birthright does not guarantee inheritance: For any successor must sit upon the legendary Burning Throne and pass The Test of Fire. Imbued with dark sorceries, the throne is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANHaller, Robert
Summary: Vacation Bible School got a little out of hand this year. Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHalter, Marek.
Summary: The story of Sarah-and of history itself-begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord,Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has plannned for her. The groom is handsome and a nobleman, but on their wedding day, Sarah panics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALWalbert, Kate
Summary: "In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walbert 2015Wahrer, Caitlin
Summary: "When a small-town family is pushed to the brink, how far will they go to protect one of their own? Tony has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when he's called to a hospital bed where Nick is lying battered and bruised after a violent attack, his protective instincts flare, and a white-hot rage begins to build. Nick didn't ask for any of this. One moment he was partying at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAHWaller, Ericka
Summary: "Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the face of life's challenges. George is a grumpy, belligerent old man who has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn't want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him. Dan has OCD but has channeled his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALBacker, Sara
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACFaller, Régis.
Summary: Polo the dog sets out from his home and enjoys many adventures, including sailing his boat on top of a whale, roasting hot dogs over a volcano, and taking a ride in a spaceship built from a mushroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALHawker, Libbie
Summary: "Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hawker 2019Wallen, Amy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALDanker, Sean.
Summary: I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side." He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire--a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DANHarker, Jillian.
Summary: Little Bear thinks he knows the best way to catch a fish and the best way to dig a hole. But when Grandpa Bear shows him a few tricks, Little Bear realizes that sometimes the simple way is best.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARWalbert, Kate
Summary: "They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRAHalter, Marek.
Summary: Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign-born wives, Lilah rebels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HALWecker, Helene.
Summary: Combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology in the story of two supernatural creatures--Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire--who form an unlikely friendship on the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WECCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WECFaller, Regis
Summary: While trying to retrieve his new book from a thieving alien, Polo has a series of adventures and eventually helps the alien and his people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2007