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Summary: "Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 WEBCollins, Paul
Summary: Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 COLSummary: The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASwift, Earl
Summary: On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: It takes courage to save yourself...In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together.Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVESummary: A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DINVarious Artists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Hall Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/RUSSIAN SONChong, Vivian
Summary: "In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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Summary: "The moment Spencer meets Hope the summer before seventh grade, it's ... something at first sight. He knows she's special, possibly even magical. The pair become fast friends, climbing trees and planning world travels. After years of being outshone by his older brother and teased because of his Tourette syndrome, Spencer finally feels like he belongs. But as Hope and Spencer get older and life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLBrazer, Marjorie Cahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peach Mountain Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.13 BRAWeller, George
Summary: Vivid and heart-stopping, the dispatches of World War II reporter George Weller are immortalized in a new collection--edited by his son--of wartime reports that give firsthand accounts of the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WELLER, GEORGE WELGoldstein, Darra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 GOLSala, Sharon
Summary: Wade Montgomery's back in Blessings, Georgia just in time for the holidays to help rebuild after a disaster nearly destroyed his family's business. But once he lays eyes on his old friend Birdie Knox, he can't stop thinking about calling Blessings home again ... this time forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2021
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Summary: Johan Henrich Weber was born in 1735 in Hochstadt, Germany. He emigrated in 1749. He married Anna Elisabetha Filbert, daughter of Johann Samuel Filbert (1710-1786) and Maria Suzanna, in 1763. They had seven children. He died in 1815 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Masthof Press 2005
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 WEBER LeberSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 MARGreenfield, Robert.
Contents: Prologue: A day in the life, Villa Nellcote, June 1971 -- Hald Hovedgaard -- Twatley Manor -- New Barn Farm and Haileybury -- Lilliesden and Cambridge -- Pont Street -- Holy Trinity Church -- Cambridge Street -- The Flying Dragon -- Glastonbury and Hugh Street -- London to Sydney -- Samye Ling and Lundy Island -- Chester Square -- Almora -- On the way home -- Warneford and Bowden House --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GREHarris, Nathan
Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPFIC HARIsikoff, Michael
Summary: "In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Summary: "On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As Senior Pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and now as a Senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can at once call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARNOCK, RAPHAEL G. WARSummary: ATL refers to the airport designation for Atlanta. That's where orphaned 17-year-old Rashad lives with his younger brother Anton and uncle George. They're poor like most Southside families, but they're making ends meet, caring for each other and forging life-long friendships with guys like the smart, ambitious Esquire, transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn, and likable homeboy Teddy. On Sunday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLNetz, Mo
Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NETSummary: Affable Jim Williams is hosting one of the most important parties of the Savannah Christmas season. John Kelso is a magazine reporter who finds himself amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on the party. His curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDSummary: Comprising elements of travelogue, history lesson, biography, critical analysis, psychological study, and fan testimonial, this documentary explores the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald, via a long walk through coastal East Anglia, retracing the steps he took in his most famous book, The rings Of Saturn. Includes interviews with writers, artists, and filmmakers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild/Spark 2012