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by
Will Smith
(44,812)
Summary: Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era, and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, is an epic tale -- but it's only...
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BOOK
Call #: B SMITH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Hot Picks
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Graham Swift
(13,866)
Summary: "From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F SWIFT
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
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by
Eley Williams
(7,927)
Summary: Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary -- violating and subverting the dictionary's authority -- in an attempt to assert some sense of...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F WILLIAMS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 6 of 19
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Summary: Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place...
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DVD
Call #: DVD FAMILY SOUL
Locations: DVDs Family, Hot Picks
copies in: 4 of 4
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Summary: Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN NEWS
Locations: DVDs Western, Hot Picks
copies in: 5 of 5
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by
Scott Abbott
Summary: Patrick Guthrie, a widowed public school drama teacher, will do whatever he can to make the money for a life-saving operation his ten-year-old son needs--including begging on the streets of New York.
BOOK
Call #: F ABBOTT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Cathy Ace
Series:
Cait Morgan Series
(175)
Summary: A dream vacation at a Mexican beach resort swiftly dissolves into a nightmare for criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan when her significant other, Bud Anderson, is wrongly arrested for the murder of...
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BOOK
Call #: F ACE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Isabel Allende
(19,340)
Summary: "A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Call #: F ALLENDE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(801)
Summary: Presents four stories about Amish girls and their gardens, including Beth Wiseman's "Rooted in Love," in which Rosemary, who is trying to support her family but cannot garden, accepts help from Saul, who has loved her for years.
BOOK
Call #: F AMISH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(232)
Summary: Their second chance: Amish nanny Hannah Eicher never thought she'd ever see Rob Prince again. There was no way a relationship between her and the handsome English fireman could overcome her family's...
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BOOK
Call #: F AMISH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brian Andrews
Series:
Tier One Shared-world
(1,296)
Summary: Navy SEAL Keith ''Chunk'' Redman is tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs. Ex-CIA analyst Whitney Watts sees evidence of a troubling link between illicit Chinese arms sales and an...
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BOOK
Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(3,132)
Summary: In the midst of the Christmas rush, Callahan Garrity's long-lost brother Brian appears with his two-year-old daughter Maura, then as abruptly disappears without the child when his ex-wife, from whom...
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BOOK
Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(2,903)
Summary: A crime novel featuring cleaning lady-cum-sleuth, Callahan Garrity, who embarks on a quest to find the person behind the murder of her employer.
BOOK
Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(3,305)
Summary: Lady PI Callahan Garrity of Atlanta is hired to find a singer for a group planning a comeback after their manager dropped them. Garrity finds the singer, gun in hand, next to the body of the manager....
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BOOK
Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(4,577)
Summary: When hired to find the controversial and valuable diary of a Civil War madame, Callahan Garrity--a former Atlantic cop, now cleaning lady-cum-sleuth--runs afoul of radicals of every kind as well as a murderous antique collector.
BOOK
Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(3,750)
Summary: Inquisitive cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Callahan Garrity faces the opposition of her own family when she investigates the carjacking death of her cousin, Patti McNair, and uncovers a host of dark family secrets.
BOOK
Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Maria Angels Anglada
(4,613)
Summary: In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a special violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by it. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals its...
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BOOK
Call #: F ANGLADA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Arnaldur Indridason
Series:
Erlendur Sveinsson Mysteries
(7,742)
Summary: When Detective Erlendur places her in charge during his leave of absence, Elinborg tackles a disturbing serial rapist case that has the local police racing against time to prevent another attack.
BOOK
Call #: F ARNALDUR INDRIOASON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Donald Bain
Series:
Capital Crimes Series
(381)
Summary: When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink...
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BOOK
Call #: F BAIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(59)
Summary: "Connected to nature and carefree of heart, seven historical women would prefer to travel through life without shoes, especially if giving away their only pair would comfort someone else in need....
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BOOK
Call #: F BAREFOOT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dave Barry
(3,458)
Summary: An uproarious tale told in alternating voices follows the stories of a pet shop owner and a curmudgeon who find themselves on the run from police, terrorists, and a pizza chain mascot. One...
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Call #: F BARRY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Stephen Baxter
(1,689)
Summary: "A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The...
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Call #: F BAXTER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Maeve Binchy
(4,695)
Summary: Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.
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Call #: F BINCHY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jim Carrey
(3,952)
Summary: Meet Jim Carrey. He's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege -- but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even getting fat? Nothing seems to lift the...
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Call #: F CARREY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elżbieta Cherezińska
Series:
Bold Novels - #1
(1,834)
Summary: This is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one they call her -- too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa...
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Call #: F CHEREZINSKA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(1,452)
Summary: Four charming romances are connected by an heirloom brooch passed down for over 200 years. The stories range from 1820s Regency England to present day Washington state, as the multigenerational saga...
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Call #: F CHRISTMAS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tom Clancy
Series:
Max Moore Series
(12,077)
Summary: For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and...
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BOOK
Call #: F CLANCY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
(5,640)
Summary: Set in 1885, this is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy...
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Call #: F CLARK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paul Creswick
(1,464)
Summary: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
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Call #: F CRESWICK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michael Crichton
Series:
Andromeda Novels - #2
(8,799)
Summary: "In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the...
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Call #: F CRICHTON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Arne Dahl
Series:
Intercrime Series
(2,210)
Summary: When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to...
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BOOK
Call #: F DAHL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
(714)
Summary: "The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. Éleonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother,...
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Call #: F DEL AMO
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Joël Dicker
(126,619)
Summary: " The #1 internationally bestselling thriller, and ingenious book within a book, about the disappearance of a 15-year-old New Hampshire girl and, 30 years later, a young American writer's...
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BOOK
Call #: F DICKER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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