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Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Isabel's niece, Cat, asks Isabel to run her delicatessen while she attends a wedding in Italy, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly plagued with memories of events that never happened to him. The situation appeals to Isabel as a philosophical question: Is the heart truly the seat of the soul? And it piques her insatiable curiosity: Could the memories be connected with the donor's...
183) A fine romance
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a follow-up to Knock Wood, Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom. A Fine Romance begins with Bergen's charming first husband, French director Louis Malle, whose huge appetite for life broadened her horizons and whose occasional darkness never diminished their love for each other. But her real romance...
Author
Series
Burning Cove California volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover. In...
185) The event
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Velocity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min. 31 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matt Shapiro is dead, one more victim of AIDS. The DA believes his death may be the result of assisted suicide, which is against the law, so she questions Matt's friends and family, without considering the emotional impact her investigation might have.
186) Yesterday is history
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : DVD, color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 750,000 elderly Americans are spending their later years in for-profit assisted living facilities. This loosely regulated, multibillion-dollar industry is dominated by one company: Emeritus Senior Living. In a year-long investigation, Frontline and ProPublica raise questions about fatal lapses in care, understaffing, and a quest for profits.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (373 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With Gus Fring dead, Walt's transformation from well-meaning family man to ruthless drug kingpin is nearly complete. This season charts the murderous rise of Walter White as he reaches new highs and new lows.
189) Hawking
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
298 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic biography of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking presenting a heroic yet nuanced portrait of the 20th century's second-most famous scientist."--
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a much-needed respite, a time to connect, a time to reflect on what the year had brought, and what the future might hold. But this year felt different from all those that had...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 17
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion — war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin’s condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The...
192) Motherless Brooklyn
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A private detective who suffers from Tourette's syndrome investigates the murder of his friend and mentor.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 16
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become convinced that the two children seen tending to him are...
Author
Publisher
Eastern Washington University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
ix, 196 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock. Since then Peacock has become an articulate environmental individualist writing about the West's abundant wildscapes. Abbey and Peacock had an at times...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xix, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An urgent, on-the-ground account of chaos and compassion from the front lines of COVID-19, from a New York Times journalist and a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency room. When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10,...
198) Paradox
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Ty Christie of Willicott, Maryland, witnesses a murder at dawn from the deck of her cottage on Lake Massey. When dragging the lake, not only do the divers find the murder victim, they also discover dozens of bones. Even more shocking is the identification of a unique belt buckle found among the bones. Working together with Chief Christie, Savich and Sherlock soon discover a frightening connection between the bones and the escaped psychopath....
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 265 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin, Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner, Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of "Heisenberg" gains steam, leading up to a shattering finale that will leave no one in Walt's world unscathed.
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
223 pages
Language
English
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I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive? Why was she kept hidden?...
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