Summary: Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner, and discovers Dracula's true nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COUGriffith, Nicola.
Summary: "A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is comingashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIStoker, Bram.
Summary: A naive young Englishman travels to Transylvania to do business with a client, Count Dracula. After showing his true and terrifying colors, Dracula boards a ship for England in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest. Told in a series of news reports from eyewitness observers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOStoker, Bram
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOSherman, Casey
Summary: Presents a portrait of the Irish-American gangster who worked as an informant on both sides of the law and describes the sixteen-year hunt for him and his final capture, arrest, and murder in prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 SHERobinson, Peter
Summary: On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked. When she awakes in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Dark Alley 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RBStoker, Bram
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOEnglish, T. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime--and law enforcement--that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger--the brother of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 ENGJensen, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JENCrawford, Robyn
Summary: Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans around the world. One person was there by her side through it all -- her best friend, Robyn Crawford. Since Whitney's death in 2012, Robyn has stayed out of the limelight and held...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAWFORD, ROBYN CRASummary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACHigginbotham, Anastasia
Summary: Explains that although many adults do not care to admit it, color does still matter in the United States; discusses racism and the fight against it; and argues that bias is a problem for whites, but that white people do not have to accept it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dottir Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 HIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8009 HIGSaad, Layla F.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAAKiely, Brendan
Summary: "Most kids of color grow up talking about racism. They have "The Talk" with their families-the honest talk about survival in a racist world. But white kids don't. They're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. Because not talking about racism doesn't make it go away. Not talking about white privilege doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Other Talk begins this much-needed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.809 KIESummary: Intense shark attacks including some bloody images, language, brief partial nudity/sexual references and drug use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JAWAnderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)
Summary: "This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 ANDSummary: Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recruited to spy for Russia in 1934. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Across almost 20 years of spying and treachery, the four are bound by their beliefs, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAMSaslow, Eli
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a powerful account of Derek Black's journey from white supremacist hero to apostle of tolerance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DEREK SASLehr, Dick
Summary: Explores the relationship between FBI agent John Connolly and Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, chronicling a corrupt arrangement of information, racketeering, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 LEHHawley, George
Summary: During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 HAWLehr, Dick.
Summary: Whitey Bulger was the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill examine and reveal the factors and forces that created the monster. This is a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BULGER, WHITEY LEHSkomal, Gregory
Summary: "As shark attacks continue to rise along the coast of New England, Dr. Greg Skomal, the leading great white shark expert in the country, takes readers on a gripping exploration of these apex predators and the factors in their resurgence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.3 SKOClare, Alys.
Summary: In the autumn of 1210, Abbess Caliste is concerned about the welfare of her nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey after King John's men have taken it over, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Mannor with Josse, and Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAKennedy, Gerrick
Summary: "A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passing. On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world has mourned her death amid new revelations about her relationship to her Blackness, her sexuality, and her addictions. Didn't We Almost Have It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2022