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12641) Bloody Mary: a novel
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English
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Tells the story of socially adept, thirteen-year-old Hadley and her protective mother, Claire. Claire develops epilepsy and with it a traumatic disorientation which leads her to begin an affair. Hadley feels abandoned and runs away, falling under the influence of a predatory man who gives shelter to runaways. Both try to regain control of themselves and their lives.
12642) As you wish
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English
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Gathering in Summer Hill, Virginia, three women from different generations reflect on their experiences with love and support one another through marital woes.
Sixty-year-old Olivia is a newlywed, thrilled to finally be starting her life with the man she's always truly loved. Kathy, in her forties, is married to a handsome, successful businessman-- who is passionately in love with someone else. Twentysomething Elise is stuck with the husband her...
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Criterion collection volume 216
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2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Français
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A scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, in which a weekend at a marquis's countryside chateau lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances. The film was a victim of tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after premiere audiences rejected it in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. It wasn't reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned...
12644) Return to Umbria
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214 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Orvieto -- its very name brings to mind priceless art, colorful ceramics, and straw-colored wine. And the most famous cathedral facade in Italy, a structure of gothic spires, arches, statues, and mosaics. But as Rick Montoya discovers, this jewel of Umbria can have an ugly side as well. When Rick Montoya moved to his mother's Italy from his father's Santa Fe, New Mexico, to work as a freelance translator using his dual heritage, he didn't expect to...
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309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Girls can rule the world-- all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It's a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they're consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about how they look, what people think, whether to try out for a...
12648) The absence of sparrows
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377 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Eleven-year-old bird watcher Ben must defy his brother to save their father after the glass plague sweeps through their town and a voice on the radio demands the simultaneous shattering of all plague victims." --
12649) Sunset song
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1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War.¡The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.
12651) The ones we keep
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A quiet lakeside resort in Vermont seems like the perfect summer getaway for Olivia and Harry Somerville and their three young boys. But in a single moment, their idyllic family retreat becomes a mother's worst nightmare. Returning from a solo hike one afternoon, Olivia learns from a passing stranger that one of her sons has drowned -- but not which one. In that moment, Olivia makes a panicked decision that will change her family forever. She runs....
12652) After the rice
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English
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Megan Ismore's bungalow isn't big enough to house her problems, or her relatives.
Married just ten months, Megan's life with Matt would be grand if it weren't for a fast-growing secret she can't bear to share. As if that weren't enough, she's dealing with Matt's belching Uncle Tony, who is residing on an air mattress in the basement, and her sister Andrea, a roving hippie, who is nesting on their couch. Plus, dueling mothers-in-law hell-bent on double-booking...
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212, 16 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson--a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas--comes to life. Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Every Friday night for as long as assistant principal Tylene Wilson can remember, the entire town has gathered in the stands, cheering their boys on. Each September...
12654) The caldera
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English
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In Hallasholm, Stig is contesting the annual Maktig competition to decide Skandia's greatest warrior. But a late-night knock on the door brings someone Stig never expected to see again, along with a request the Herons are hard-pressed to refuse: a rescue mission of epic proportions. Across the ocean, the southern city-state of Byzantos is plagued by a crew of pirates who've kidnapped the son of Empress Justina. Slipping out of Hallasholm under the...
12655) Surviving Savannah
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419 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten -- until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the...
12656) The age of innocence
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1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
12657) The music of dolphins
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English
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After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.
12658) A dog's breakfast
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Nightmare club volume 1
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English
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Glen never has anything nice to say to anyone, so when he gets lost in the woods during a school field trip and encounters a strange creature, there is bound to be trouble.
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English
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"When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson"--
Thompson provides an ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and learning from the school of hard knocks. He is the longest-ever-service cast member of Saturday Night Live, as well as the survivor of early 2000s television programs...
12660) Haystack
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 31 cm
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English
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Describes the haystack, including how it was built, what it was used for, and how important it was to the farmer and his animals.
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