Endicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDKeegan, Marina
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.609 KEEFiorato, Marina.
Summary: Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to Louis XIV of France to protect his secret daughter. In the present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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Summary: "A flying saucer crashes deep in the mountains of Japan. Wary of the hyper-intelligent beings they find inside, the government hides from the public all news of the alien craft. But it’s not the strange visitors themselves that they should be afraid of―the real danger is the parasitic spores smuggled aboard! Will Earth survive the UFO MUSHROOM INVASION?!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Living the Line LLC
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARCall, Marina
Summary: What if you had always dreamed of traveling and suddenly you received some money to make this happen? Oscar Santos embarks on a train and begins his journey eastbound. Leaving his native Portugal, he enters Spain and meets Daniel, upending his plans for a solo journey . These two unlikely characters become friends quickly and soon discover there is much more to learn on their travels than mere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Call of Eden Publishing 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Fiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them together again?When nineteen year old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOYuszczuk, Marina
Summary: "Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America's feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe's bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUSCohen, Marina
Summary: During a long car trip, best friends Quinn and Kara explore the strange and creepy goings-on at a remote Nevada inn when Kara's family stops for the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COHDyachenko, Marina
Summary: "Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYAMander, Marina
Summary: "An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market. Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who "every now and then tries out a new father." Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his words--his favorite toys. One February morning his mom doesn't wake up to bring him to school, so Luca--with a father who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANScott, Marina
Summary: When her best friend disappears in the summer of 1942, Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a member of the militia and other other forced to live in Leningrad's tunnels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCOWindsor, Marina.
Summary: Everyone thinks that Max is a bad dog because she misbehaves, until a veterinarian gives her owner a tip on how to make things better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WindsorLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: "The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: Generations ago, Convoy Seven and the AI known as I.C.C. left Earth on a mission that would take them far beyond our solar system. Launched by the Planet United Consortium, a global group formed to pursue cooperative Earth-wide interests in deep space, nine ships headed into the unknown to explore a distant star called LQ Pyx. Eons later, the convoy has returned to LQ Pyx to begin work on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSBudhos, Marina Tamar
Summary: After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediatly put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BUDLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: "Deep in the heart of an alien mountain range, the supercomputer I.C.C. has lain dormant, its ships alert, for eons, Now, after one hundred thousand years, the AI is awakening. Someone is roaming the convoy's halls - someone that isn't human. The planet, Noumenon - created by the megastructure known as the Web - is too young and brutal to have evolved intelligent life. Its surface is bombarded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: 2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSSummary: "An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty and Franziska following the death of their grandfather Tobias. Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first ... and are Kitty and Franziska next?"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN REDSummary: Based on real-life events. Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Entertainment One U.S. 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MEDSummary: Under the resolute command of Sergeant Hank Voight, the elite intelligence unit continues their relentless fight to take down the city's most dangerous criminals. But just how far is the squad willing to go to achieve justice and protect their own?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DIVSummary: Nicknamed "The Eagle" for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the facade is a tormented personality. A cunning and ingenious hero, Hallgrim has allowed work to consume his life and prevent his connecting with himself, his darkest memories and his motivations. Ultimately, a personal crisis forces him to launch another, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014