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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for information pertaining to two aliens that landed days earlier....
82) Dragon's gate
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When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
83) Moon Nevada
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376 pages : maps, color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Whether you're an adventure junkie, road-tripper, or card shark, Nevada has something for you. Make it the perfect trip with Moon's Nevada. Inside you'll find: The best road trips through Nevada, from 3 days on the loneliest road in America, to a week covering Death Valley and the Extraterrestrial Highway, with detailed information on travel times, distances, and directions. Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout. The top sights and unique...
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422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Area 51 peers behind the highly fortified, heavily guarded CIA testing ground to understand fully the nature, history, and scope of the most secret and controversial base in the United States. It investigates the Cold War years, U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and chemical and nuclear weapon research as well as the base's link to an extraterrestrial presence on Earth, reports of alien autopsies, recovery of non-terrestrial spacecraft, and attempts...
85) Strangers
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"Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's the book on him and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem at all believing that he's guilty of three rapes. His mother, Cheryl, an old lover of Nameless's, is also being harassed by vindictive townspeople. It's against such odds that he must work to prove Cody innocent. There are few to help him and plenty to get in his way. It's a classic situation...
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On October 1st, 2017, over 22,000 people gathered in Las Vegas for the annual Route 91 Harvest music festival, which featured some of country music's biggest stars. As closing act Jason Aldean performed his set, a gunman opened fire on the throng of concert goers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino and unleashed over 1,100 rounds of ammunition in just 10 minutes. Fifty-eight people were murdered, and over five hundred others were shot,...
88) Nomadland
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.
89) Lucky you
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pro gambler Huck Cheever meets irresistible Billie Offer. He learns to treat love the way he treats cards: trusting his heart instead of his head. Meanwhile, he scrambles to raise the $10K entry fee for the glittery, high-roller World Series of Poker, even though, or maybe because, the tournament may pit him against his estranged father.
90) Huesos olvidados
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Nora Kelly novel volume 1
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347 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Crimen, canibalismo, una expedición maldita y un misterio enterrado en el tiempo. Preston & Child inauguran una irresistible serie que mezcla arqueología, historia, crimen y suspense. La joven arqueóloga Nora Kelly recibe una extraordinaria propuesta: liderar un equipo en busca del llamado Campamento perdido de la expedición Donner. Su misterio se remonta a 1847, cuando un grupo de pioneros quedó atrapado en las montañas de California y se perdió...
92) Mountain dog
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215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
94) Gold mountain
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Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes Authors Note (pages 274-276) and Questions for Discussion (pages 277-278).
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290 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--
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Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count. What started as a conman's deathbed confession turns into a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during the world's biggest poker tournament. While Gerry tangles with the Vegas mob, Tony enlists the aid of an aging...
97) Viva Las Vegas
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a fellow racer and womaniser, gets in the way.
98) What we buried
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298 pages ; 22 cm
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Told in separate voices, Jory, whose face is partly paralyzed, and his sister Liv, a former reality television performer and child beauty pageant contestant, join forces to search for their missing parents.
99) Showgirls
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Nomi Malone has what it takes to make it as a Las Vegas showgirl-- what she doesn't have is a way in. To survive, she accepts the only job available: lap dancing at a seedy club. And when she meets Cristal, Vegas' reigning showgirl, Nomi wants everything she has-- including her boyfriend. And as Nomi dives deeper into the world she so desperately desires, a rivalry between the two women heats up. The battle for the spotlight becomes so fiercely competitive...
100) So damn lucky
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Casino fixer Lucky O'Toole's search for a missing magician is complicated by a confrontation with The Big Boss, the hopeful advances of coworker Paxton Dane, and a blisteringly amorous French chef.
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