Summary: ATL refers to the airport designation for Atlanta. That's where orphaned 17-year-old Rashad lives with his younger brother Anton and uncle George. They're poor like most Southside families, but they're making ends meet, caring for each other and forging life-long friendships with guys like the smart, ambitious Esquire, transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn, and likable homeboy Teddy. On Sunday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLSummary: The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD DRISiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: A smalltown girl, Smoky O'Donnell, moves to Atlanta to work for a magazine and becomes involved with three men: a rebellious photographer, a black freedom fighter, and the scion of an aristocratic Southern family. The civil rights movement serves as a background. By the author of Hill Towns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SIDWolfe, Tom.
Summary: A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene to better their lives and the lives of their families. Earn Marks is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. Alfred is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. Darius is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. Van is Earns best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ATLSummary: "Atlanta follows two cousins who work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families"--from container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ATLSlaughter, Karin
Summary: On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLASummary: The group crosses paths with a mysterious priest and takes shelter in his church. As Daryl and Carol follow a lead to the whereabouts of Beth, the others begin to realize that they're being hunted. As Bob's life hangs in the balance, the group prepares to face off against the cannibalistic hunters of Terminus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: Following the aftermath of the March 2021 mass shootings at three spas in Atlanta, this film chronicles how the Asian American community came together to fight back against hate and explores the struggles and triumphs of AAPI communities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RISSummary: Ken Burns presents and follows the transformation of a single struggling, impoverished Atlanta neighborhood over several years as community members apply a radical holistic revitalization program to improve the lives of every resident.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EASTrocheck, Kathy Hogan
Summary: When she was a cop, Callahan Garrity trusted no one more than her partner, Bucky Deavers. Callahan gets a shock when she learns that Bucky was shot in a liquor store on his way home from a party. Callahan turns on all her skills to find the culprit and discovers accusations that Bucky might be working as an accomplice in a string of robberies. With her friend's life and reputation on the line,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROButler, Blake.
Summary: "In his first full-length work of non-fiction, the daring novelist and critic Blake Butler details his epic struggle with insomnia, and its unexpected consequences on his imagination, his creative process, and his perspective on reality"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.84 BUTKhan, Hena
Summary: As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Pervaiz wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KHASummary: In the fourth season, we see Rick and the group of survivors fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison only to have it short-lived as the group loses everything, their home, family, and friends to the threat of the walkers, outside threats and the hidden dangers brewing inside the fences. The group of survivors are broken apart and sent on divergent paths, unsure of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WALMyracle, Lauren
Summary: Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Childrens Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Slaughter, Karin
Summary: Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre, putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SLAOney, Steve
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 ONESummary: Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies. The series explores how the living are changed by the realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the walking dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WALReid, Kim.
Summary: A serial murderer began hunting black children in 1979 Atlanta. Kim Reid's mother was a lead detective on the case. Kim assumed the weight of running their single-parent household, as well as keeping an eye on her sister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 REIGreen, Tim
Summary: Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GreLandau, Deb Miller
Summary: The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in cold blood in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hitman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Brown, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Vision Books 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROSlaughter, Karin
Summary: GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020