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A long way from Chicago 2Beck, Richard
Summary: "During the 1980s in California, New Jersey, and New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, daycare workers were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of committing horrible sexual crimes against the children they cared for. These crimes, social workers and prosecutors said, had gone undetected for years, and they consisted of a brutality and sadism...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362 BECBeck, Richard
Summary: "A groundbreaking argument on how the decades-long War on Terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of democracy down to what we watched on TV--by an acclaimed n+1 writer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BECSummary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRIPeck, Richard
Summary: In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PECPeck, Richard
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PECPeck, Richard
Summary: "Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PECPeck, Richard
Summary: In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PECPeck, Richard.
Summary: A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013