Beller, Thomas
Summary: "Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALINGER, J.D. BELWood, Michael
Summary: Michael Wood, one of our most versatile critics, has given us a compact study of Hitchcock that deftly melds biography and criticism. He gives us the life, from a provincial suburb of London to the most posh precincts of Los Angeles, and a fabled career that began as a designer of title cards in the silent film era. He reads the films as visual texts, studying their plots to tease out their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED WOOLlanas, Sheila Griffin
Summary: Examines the appearance, diet, habitat, and life cycle of grizzly bears and discusses their cultural importance --
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.784 LLAMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: "Selina Kyle's coming-of-age-story as she claws her way to the top of Gotham City's criminal underbelly and becomes Catwoman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAABaker, Chet
Contents: Belgium, 1964. Bye bye blackbird ; Isn't it romantic ; Airegin ; Time after time ; So what -- Norway, 1979. Interview ; Blue train ; Softly, as in a morning sunrise ; Five years ago ; Love for sale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CHEBardugo, Leigh
Summary: "Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BARAllen, Brooke
Summary: Benazir Bhutto led one of the most dramatic lives of the twentieth century. Born to privilege as the daughter of one of Pakistan’s great feudal families, groomed for a diplomatic career at Harvard and Oxford, she was thrust into the political arena when her father, Pakistan’s charismatic and controversial prime minister, was overthrown and executed by the military dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BHUTTO, BENAZIR ALLEvans, Bill
Contents: My foolish heart--Israel--Detour ahead--My melancholy baby--Emily--Alfie--Someday my prince will come--If you could see me now--'Round midnight--Someday my prince will come--Sleepin' bee--you're gonna hear from me--Re: Person I knew--Sareen Jurer--Blue Serge--Up with the lark--But beautiful--Twelve tone tune two
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BILPeterson, Oscar
Summary: Performances featuring the jazz pianist, filmed for the television programs, Mr̜k sang (Sweden, 1963), Swing it Oscar (Denmark, 1964) and Live in Finland (Finland, 1965).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC OSCSummary: "Jimmy shows why he is still the uncontested king of the jazz organ. Highlights include blues jams 'Got my mojo working' and 'Sonnymoon for two,' the classic ballads 'Alfie' and 'Satin doll,' as well as a blinding 23-minute version of his showcase number 'The sermon.' "--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JIMAllen, Rachael
Summary: Traces Harleen Quinzel's journey from precocious, revenge-obsessed teenage girl to a hardcore justice-seeker on her way to becoming supervillain, Harley Quinn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: "Records smashed ... incredible athletic feats ... Medals won ... The top 40 Olympic athletes of all time are here! In this fun, fact-packed book from the 40 Inspiring Icons series, learn how these athletic stars became the best in the world."--Amazon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.092 BILDe la Peña, Matt
Summary: "When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger--better--than everyone around him. But it's not like he's earned his powers . . . yet. Lately it's difficult to hold back and keep his heroics in the shadows. When Clark follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and learns that people are disappearing from the Mexican-American and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LAllen, Rachael
Summary: Harleen Quinzel starts attending Gotham University and becomes an Arkham Asylum intern, paired with the most high-profile female inmate, the notorious Talia al Ghūl, but as they spend more time together, the lines between good and bad begin to blur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLGreen, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Larry Page. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PAGE GRELu, Marie
Summary: The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. One by one, the city's elites are being executed as their mansions' security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey. Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books, of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUAllen, Rachael
Summary: When girls in Gotham City go missing, Harley Quinn is determined to track down their kidnapper. But the only way to outsmart a villain is to engage in a little villainy herself. Don't miss the adrenaline-racing conclusion to the Harley Quinn trilogy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLBardugo, Leigh
Summary: She will become one of the world's greatest heroes: Wonder Woman. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons, and longs only to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARGann, Kyle.
Summary: A discussion of John Cage's "4'33"," a mid-twentieth-century musical work composed entirely of silence, providing a cultural context for the piece, and examining the musical, philosophical, and environmental factors that influenced Cage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.18 GANGreen, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Mark Zuckerberg. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB ZUCKERBERG GREMonir, Alexandra
Summary: Dinah Lance was seven years old when she overheard the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear, not in Gotham City, taken over by the Court of Owls. The sinister organization rules Gotham as a patriarchal dictatorship, all the while spreading their influence like a virus across the globe. Diane is beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONLlanas, Sheila Griffin
Summary: Examines the appearance, diet, habitat, and life cycle of coyotes and discusses their cultural importance --
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013