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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.
Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker" and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey's death reaches Daniel in New York,
...Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In May of 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter Lucile begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer's captive on a crime spree-culminating in the notorious Greenville,...
63) Philida
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not.
In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André
64) Doomed
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller.
The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and really gross)...
The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and really gross)...
65) Damned
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
“As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." —NPR
From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil.
Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably
66) The code
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two thieves try to pull off a dangerous heist with FBI, NYPD, and KGB operatives on their trail, and try to escape with their loot and their lives.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
68) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
69) Blonde ambition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Katie Gregerstitch is a small-town Oklahoma beauty who's come to New York to visit her long-time boyfriend. But after finding him in the arms of another woman, Katie decides to lose her cheating man and to find herself. With the help of two scheming co-workers, she lands a job at a top construction firm where she meets and falls for a great guy with an even greater secret. Now, nothing is going to stop this go-getter from getting exactly what her...
Series
When calls the heart volume movie 6
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A surprise arrival shakes things up in the sixth When Calls the Heart film. Just when Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) thinks she has Jack (Daniel Lissing) back for good, a beautiful woman arrives in Coal Valley threatening to ruin their budding love. Saddened by the turn of events, Elizabeth considers a job offer back east. Another visitor, inspector Bill Avery, sends waves through the town as he helps Jack uncover what really led to the mine explosion....
71) Interstellar
Language
English
Description
Film is a story about an ex-pilot turned farmer, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
72) 99 homes
Author
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timely thriller about a single father who is evicted from his home and his only chance to win it back is to go to work for the charismatic and ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place.
Publisher
Cloud Ten Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A week after the Rapture, millions of people have vanished into thin air, a desperate world turns to the United Nations president. Basking in the adoration and trust of the people, he seems to have the entire planet at his command. But a small group, the Tribulation Force, is aware of his true and sinister identity. Now the group must embark on a dangerous mission to open the eyes of the world to tell the truth to anyone who will listen.
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth and Jack's relationship blossoms into romance. Finally winning Elizabeth over, Jack is devastated to learn of his Constable reassignment. When Elizabeth's sister, Julie, arrives in Coal Valley with the new Constable, Jack reluctantly tells Elizabeth the news and must leave town."--Container.
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Jack's ... feelings for Elizabeth ... develop beyond friendship and he finally asks her out on a date. Meanwhile, the town prepares for the return of Adam Miller, the lone survivor of the mine disaster"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice is a bored schoolgirl who yearns for a more exciting life. Things get "curiouser and curiouser" after she follows the frantic White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and has a series of surreal misadventures in the madcap world of Wonderland, where "nothing's impossible." In Wonderland, Alice meets extraordinary characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Amanda Leduc’s stunning novel is the tale of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. As Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, Lilah seeks sexual penance under the harsh hand of her boss, her own transformation subtle and terrifying. Sam and Lilah fall deeper into their separate spiritual
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Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge,...
