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Jackal : a novel / by Adams, Erin E.,author.;
"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last ... It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home ... reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memoriesof Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she can handle whatever awaits her. But on the day of the wedding, somewhere between dancing and dessert, the bride's daughter, Caroline, goes missing-and the only thing left behind is a piece of white fabric covered in blood. It's taking. As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: a summer night. A missing girl. A party in the woods. She's seen this before. Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in school, walked into the woods with a mysterious man and was later found with her chest cavity ripped open and her heart missing. Liz shudders at the thought that it could have been her, and now, with Caroline missing, it can't be a coincidence. As Liz starts to dig through the town's history, she uncovers a horrifying secret about the place she once called home. Children have been going missing in these woods for years. All of them Black. All of them girls. It's your turn. With the evil in the forest creeping closer, Liz knows what she must do: find Caroline, or be entirely consumed by the darkness"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; African American teenage girls; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The beaver [videorecording] / by Booth, Zachary.; Corbett, Jeff.; Foster, Jodie.; Gibson, Mel.; Golin, Steve.; Jones, Cherry.; Killen, Kyle.; Lawrence, Jennifer,1990-; Redmon, Keith.; Ruark, Ann.; Stewart, Riley Thomas.; Yelchin, Anton.; Anonymous Content (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm); Imagenation Abu Dhabi (Firm); Participant Media.; Summit Entertainment.;
Music by Marcelo Zarvos ; cinematography, Hagen Bogdanski ; edited by Lynzee Klingman.Mel Gibson, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Jodie Foster, Cherry Jones, Riley Thomas Stewart, Zachary Booth, Jeff Corbett.A successful businessman and loving father finds a unique means of coping with his debilitating mental illness in this drama from director Jodie Foster. When Walter Black (Mel Gibson) finds himself stuck in a downward spiral, the only solution is to separate from his wife Meredith (Foster) and their two children Henry (Riley Thomas Stewart) and Porter (Anton Yelchin). Just as the once-prominent toy executive nears rock bottom, however, the chance discovery of a beat-up beaver hand puppet offers him a unique chance to pull himself back from the brink. By using The Beaver to speak with others, Walter develops the abilities to express the suppressed feelings that were slowly eating him away from the inside.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1; anamorphic widescreen presentation ; dual layer.
Subjects: Executives; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Hand puppets; Man-woman relationships; Men;
© c2011., Summit Entertainment ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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The house across the street / by Pearse, Lesley,author.;
Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria is at work? Sometimes she brings women to the house, other times they have children. Hilda, Katy's mother, disapproves of Gloria. She wonders if these mysterious visitors have just been released from prison. Is Gloria secretly bringing criminals, or worse, into the heart of the community? Then one night, the house burns down. In the wreckage, the bodies of Gloria and her daughter are found. Katy is sure the unexplained visitors must be responsible until her father is arrested and charged with murder. Have the police arrested the correct person? Are the rest of the street safe? Can Katy find the truth before it's too late?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Abused women; Arson; Families; Family violence; Murder; Neighbors; Secrecy;
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The Black Bird Oracle A Novel [electronic resource] : by Harkness, Deborah.aut; cloudLibrary;
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series. “The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood—the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children.”—Jodi Picoult Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it. In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Romantic; Occult & Supernatural;
© 2024., Random House Publishing Group,
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Baby-sitters little sister. by Farina, Katy,author,artist.; Graphic novelization of (work) :Martin, Ann M.,1955-Karen's witch.; Martin, Ann M.,1955-creator.;
Karen Brewer's imagination gets the best of her when she decides that her neighbor, Mrs. Porter -- who has wild gray hair, wears black robes, and has a garden full of mysterious herbs -- must be a witch.20200121 md
Subjects: Comics adaptations.; Graphic novels.; Karen (Fictitious character from Martin.; Children of divorced parents; Friendship; Witches; Gardening; Clubs; Families;
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Too far / by Day, Sylvia,author.;
Lily Black was presumed dead for years. Now she's returned to the unquestioning arms of her loving husband, Kane. Where she's been is a mystery, but the deadly danger she's brought with her is manifest to all. Aliyah, Kane's mother, has worked hard to position herself in power. No one escapes her bitter ambition, not her children and certainly not a woman who may not be who she claims. Amy, Kane's sister-in-law, has been a pawn throughout the dangerous games the family plays. She's beginning to grasp the rules, though, and won't stop until all the pieces on the board have toppled.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Families; Secrecy; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moon witch, spider king / by James, Marlon,1970-author.;
"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It's also the story of a century-long feud--seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch--that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king. It is said that Aesi works so closely with the king that together they are like the eight limbs of one spider. Aesi's power is considerable-and deadly. It takes brains and courage to challenge him, which Sogolon does for reasons of her own. Part adventure tale, part chronicle of an indomitable woman who bows to no man, it is a fascinating novel that explores power, personality, and the places where they overlap"--
Subjects: Epic fiction.; Mythological fiction.; Hunters; Mercenary troops; Missing children; Secrecy; Shapeshifting; Tracking and trailing; Truthfulness and falsehood; Vendetta; Witches;
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The best of Pooh & Heffalumps, too [sound recording (CD)] by Simon, Carly;
Winnie the Pooh -- The horribly hazardous Heffalumps -- Little Mr. Roo -- The name game -- Shoulder to shoulder -- In the name of the Hundre Acre Wood; What do you do? -- With a few good friends -- The promise -- Heffalumps and Woozles -- The wondeful thing about Tiggers -- Up, down, and touch the ground -- Rumbly in my tumbly -- Little black rain cloud -- Luv-a bye -- Winnie the Pooh.
Subjects: Children's songs; Motion picture soundtracks; Motion picture music;
© p2005., Walt Disney Records : Distributed by Universal Music Canada,
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Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets / by Bilger, Burkhard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gönner, Karl, 1899-1979.; Bilger, Burkhard; Ex-Nazis; Teachers; World War, 1939-1945;
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Baby X [electronic resource] : by Peikoff, Kira.aut; Araya, Jennifer Jill.nrt; Powers, Imani Jade.nrt; Reno, Abigail.nrt; cloudLibrary;
When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder—or the craziest stalker—in this propulsive thriller. With a vivid imagining of the future, _Gattaca _meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X. In the near-future United States, where advanced technology can create eggs or sperm from any person’s cells, celebrities face the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived. Famous singer Trace Thorne is tired of being targeted by the Vault, a black market site devoted to stealing DNA. Sick of paying ransom money for his own cell matter, he hires bio-security guard Ember Ryan to ensure his biological safety. Ember will do anything she can to protect her clients. She knows all the Vault’s tricks—discarded tissues, used straws, lipstick tubes—and has prevented countless DNA thefts. Working for Thorne, her focus becomes split when she begins to fall for him, but she knows she hasn’t let anything slip—love or not, his DNA is safe. But then she and Thorne are confronted by a pregnant woman, Quinn, who claims that Thorne is the father of her baby, and all bets are off. Brilliantly plotted and terrifyingly prescient, Baby X is an unpredictable and relentless speculative thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and John Marrs.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Medical; Psychological; Suspense;
© 2024., Dreamscape Media,
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