Gist, Deeanne.
Summary: Essie Spreckelmeyer, a single woman in 1890s Texas, casts her sights on her town's remaining bachelors and widowers to find a match made in heaven while leaving God out of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Gist,Gist, Deeanne.
Summary: Tony Morgan's new job finds him butting heads with Essie Spreckelmeyer, who runs her father's company, Sullivan Oil, and causes him problems when she contradicts his orders, drafts him into a bicycle race, and tangles with his ambitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISGist, Deeanne.
Summary: From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled--by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tille is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged bahavior by tutoring him in proper servant etiquette, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid. After all, the one rule of the house is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman₂s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: When a magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, it gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into the Mighty Pups! For Skye, the smallest member of the team, her new powers are a dream come true. But things take a turn for the worse when the pups' archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail and teams up with Victoria Vance, a meteor-obsessed mad scientist, to steal the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWSummary: With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAZCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Introduces Scott Lang, known as Ant-Man, and Hope Van Dyne, known as the Wasp, and describes how they use their super-suits to fight super villains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN WESSummary: "Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián's complicated situation."--IMDb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUOno-dit-Biot, Christophe
Summary: «Ils l'ont retrouvée comme ça. Nue et morte. Sur la plage d'un pays arabe. Avec le sel qui faisait des cristaux sur sa peau.» Un homme enquête sur la femme qu'il a passionnément aimée. Elle est partie il y a plusieurs mois, pour une destination inconnue, le laissant seul avec leur petit garçon. Elle était artiste, elle s'appelait Paz. Elle était solaire, inquiète, incroyablement douée. Elle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 ONO FRENCHSummary: Ever since Hopper was a child, he has dreamed of becoming a major-league pitcher. Relentlessly pushed and punished by his abusive father, he's on the verge of becoming one of the game's most promising players when he unexpectedly breaks down on the mound. Now Hopper's only hope for a future lies with an unorthodox sports therapist who urges him to piece together the past and confront the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHESummary: They may have escaped the maze but Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Summary: "Kangaroo and Koala become fast friends when they vanquish a bubble monster together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Calliope Bolan joins a powerful secret society at her new boarding school, hoping to find answers about her mother's death, but she becomes involved in a dangerous campaign for revenge that threatens her new friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRIMayquist, Kit
Summary: "Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly simultaneously. So, when she is offered a position, against all odds, working for one of Boston's most elite families, the illustrious and secretive Verdeaus, she knows she must accept it-no matter how bizarre the interview or how vague...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYSummary: A look at the creation of the American team for the Olympics in 1896, and of their journey to get to Athens, where the games were being held.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRWest, Alexandra
Summary: Introduces Scott Lang, known as Ant-Man, and Hope Van Dyne, known as the Wasp, and desribes how they use their super-suits to fight super villains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Chase, Kit.
Summary: Oliver the elephant loves playing hide-and-seek but cannot tag his friends, Lulu and Charlie, when they hide in trees--their favorite spots--so they work together to find a tree where all three can play together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHAFrick, Kit
Summary: In Cancún, Mexico, the Mayweather family gathers for a family reunion to bring them all together, but each brings their own agenda, old grudges, and dangerous secrets that ultimately lead to murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRIReed, Kit.
Summary: TV says it. Magazines say it. American society commands it. You must be thin. You must be young. Fad diets. Fat-purging pills. Fitness clubs. Liposuction. Breast implants. Steroids. In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body has become the one true religion. The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth. Throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TORBH 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REERosewater, Kit
Summary: Fifth-grade best friends Kenzie "Kenzilla" and Shelly "Bombshell" dream of becoming roller derby superstars one day, but when a junior league forms and they must recruit teammates, will their friendship survive?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020