Summary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHABrown, Lisa
Summary: Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show--until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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Summary: Even after having plastic surgery to alter her looks, businesswoman Lauren Stevens is certain someone is trying to kill her and begins to suspect Matt Kruger, the man who claims to be a close friend of Lauren's deceased brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELFergus, Maureen
Summary: When his parents accidentally take him to the animal hospital to get his tonsils out, Leo discovers that a trip to the hospital can be a positive experience--even when the hospital isn't quite up to code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Fergus 2019Reisz, Tiffany
Summary: "They called themselves "the lucky ones." They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by their parents and chosen by legendary philanthropist and brain surgeon Dr. Vincent Capello to live in The Dragon, his almost magical beach house on the Oregon Coast. Allison was the youngest of the lucky ones living an idyllic life with her newfound family ... until the night she almost died, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REISmith, Haywood
Summary: When Pru, the black sheep of the Red Hat Club, falls of the wagon, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIKeyes, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEYKeyes, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Keyes 1966Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEYMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: P.I. Savannah Reid, accompanying her assistant's cousin Abigail to a glamorous new luxury spa called Emerge, investigates the mysterious disappearance of a renowned plastic surgeon, a strange case that reveals the dark side of beauty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKParsons, Kelly.
Summary: "Steve Mitchell, happily married with a wife and two kids, is in line for a coveted position at Boston's University Hospital when his world goes awry. His over-reaching ambition causes him to botch a major surgery, and another of his patients mysteriously dies. Steve's nightmare goes from bad to worse when he learns that the mysterious death was no accident but the act of a sociopath. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Penning a profile of Rio's hottest star-studded plastic surgery spa, writer Sydney McBride is going under the knife herself--all to revive a sagging career. But there's a bigger, more scintillating story afoot for the daring journalist. When a mysterious, incredibly hot fugitive seeks refuge in her bungalow, Sydney agrees to let him pose as her boyfriend--hoping to gain his confidence. Too bad...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADACook, Robin
Summary: "Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2015Mann, J. Albert
Summary: In the aftermath of major surgery, sixteen-year-old Eve struggles with pain, grief, and guilt while becoming increasingly dependent on pain medication, revisiting memories of her best friend, and exploring a potential romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANWalker, Sarai.
Summary: "A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walker 2015Winfrey, Kerry
Summary: Months from a dangerous oral surgery she fears may kill her, Jolie makes a list of things she needs to do before the operation, including eat every appetizer on the Applebee's menu and kiss her crush Noah Reed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, Feiwel and Friends 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WINIrving, John
Summary: When a New York journalist suffers a horrible accident--his left hand eaten by a lion while reporting on a story from India--witnessed by millions on television, viewers rally to help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KELSelzer, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2001
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Summary: "When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela's remote estate in the Scottish Highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can. But the deeper she digs, the more elusive the doctor becomes. Is there more hidden beneath the surface of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2024
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Barker, Clive
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMantchev, Lisa
Summary: When the surgeon who provided her with a clockwork heart is put on trial for murder, Penny Farthing's parents are kidnapped and Penny and her brother receive a ransom note demanding the research her parents kept on the procedures of her surgery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Mantchev 2014Saul, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUSharratt, Mary
Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021