Wisdom, Alison
Summary: Abandoning her life of popularity and high achievement to follow a magnetic stranger, a teenage girl embarks on an initially intoxicating journey of enlightenment that illuminates the cult-like qualities of suburbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISSummary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TREWood, Alisson
Summary: "A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher, in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. "Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing-and in a young,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOD, ALISSON WOOCamerota, Alisyn
Summary: "The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down "A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who's had to navigate them backwards and in heels." --Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMWisdom, Linda Randall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISGalison, Peter
Summary: At the beginning of the 20th century, just as industry and government were anticipating the immanent coordination of time around the globe, says Galison (history of science and of physics, Harvard U.), the notion of time and the ability to coordinate two clocks at a distance, were being demolished in the nexus of physics, technology, and philosophy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529 GALAvison, Brigid.
Summary: In a question and answer format addresses basic physiology, such as why one has bones, why one needs food, and how the body grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612 AVIGerber, Alyson
Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework, but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head, but sometimes she can't help herself. Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022Noel, Alyson.
Summary: As her friendship with Haven becomes strained after Haven abuses her new powers as an immortal, Ever delves into the dangerous world of dark magick to free her beloved Damen from Roman's power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NOEElison, Meg
Summary: Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An in-depth look at the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The film gives a voice to current corrections officers whose lives have been impacted by the fallout and cannot speak to media, per state law. Including interviews with retired officers, state officials, and local law enforcement, the film explores circumstances...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEDerrick, Alyson
Summary: What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed? Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. They also had a plan: to leave their small, ultra-conservative town and families behind after graduation and move to California, where they could finally stop hiding that love. But then Stevie has a terrible fall. And when she comes to, she can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster BFYR 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DERNoël, Alyson
Summary: Compared to other more ordinary towns, Quiver Hollows is a very strange, very curious place. It is also home to longtime friends Grimsly, Ollie, Ming, and Penelope. In a town where everyone is spectacularly abnormal, Grimsly feels bad about being terribly, unforgivably normal, as the town's pet funeral director. So when a series of strange and disturbing mundane occurrences begins plaguing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD NOERichman, Alyson.
Summary: During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Three decades have passed since Wraith Squadron carried out its last mission. Taking on the most dangerous and daring operations, the rogues and misfits of the elite X-Wing unit became legends of the Rebellion and the Second Galactic Civil War, before breaking up and going their separate ways. Now their singular skills are back in vital demand for a tailor-made Wraith Squadron mission. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasbooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCallison, Zach
Summary: Adventures of a young boy and the Crystal Gems, his human-like alien friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STEFaison, Frankie
Summary: After police are called to check on Kenneth Chamberlain, an African American veteran with bipolar disorder, the encounter leads to a fatal shooting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2021
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Summary: In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene—as the populist antithesis of the grand Metropolitan Opera, a nurturing home for young American talent, and a place where new, lively ideas shook up a venerable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.5 WALGerber, Alyson
Summary: When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Martin, Alyson.
Summary: "In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use-a first not only in the United States but also the world. Medical cannabis is now legal in eighteen states and Washington, D.C., and more than one million Americans have turned to it in place of conventional pharmaceuticals. Yet the federal government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.45 MARNoël, Alyson.
Summary: Desde el accidente automovilístico que reclamó la vida de su familia, Ever, un chica de 16 años, puede ver las áureas de las personas y hasta escuchar sus pensamientos. Estuvo siempre tratando de esconder este misterio en su vida hasta que conoció a Damen, otro adolescente que oculta cosas aún más misteriosas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION NOENoël, Alyson.
Summary: Ever and Damen have spent centuries facing down bitter rivals, jealous friends, and their own worst fears in the hope of being together forever, but something threatens to tear them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011