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I, Gloria Grahame / by Gilbert, Sky,1952-author.;
"A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated. Denton Moulton--a shy, effeminate male professor--lives inside his head, and inside his head he is really a long-dead movie star--the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria's shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to tell this woman's story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell any story at all? This scandalous, satirical novel of taboo desires and repression alternates between Gloria's imagined life with her film-director husband (Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause) and Denton's increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art, an all-male drag production of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. It takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars to the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, even in art."--
Subjects: Satirical literature.; Grahame, Gloria; Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979; Authors; College teachers; Gay men;
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The rough patch : marriage and the art of living together / by De Marneffe, Daphne,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Marriage; Couples; Interpersonal relations.; Midlife crisis.;
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The goblin emperor / by Addison, Katherine,author.;
"Maia, the youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment. Surrounded by sycophants eager to curry favor with the naïve new emperor, and overwhelmed by the burdens of his new life, he can trust nobody. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor. All the while, he is alone, and trying to find even a single friend . . . and hoping for the possibility of romance, yet also vigilant against the unseen enemies that threaten him, lest he lose his throne-or his life"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Goblins; Kings and rulers; Inheritance and succession; Murder;
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Subgenre [graphic novel] / by Kindt, Matt,author,illustrator,letterer.; Campbell, Jim(Letterer),letterer.; Crabtree, Bill(Comic book colorist),colorist.; Torres, Wilfredo(Comic book artist),illustrator.;
"A man is living two lives. He is a private detective in a dystopian cyberpunk future trying to solve a triple murder. But when he falls asleep--he wakes up as a wandering adventurer in a barbaric fantasy world where magic exists. Is he two separate people? Or is he a third person that has undergone a psychotic split? And can he merge these realities without losing himself?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery comics.; Dystopian comics.; Graphic novels.; Adventure and adventurers; Private investigators;
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The Elders / by Iserles, Inbali.;
Isla's search for her missing brother, Pirie, has brought her to the vast Wildlands. The forest is a treacherous place for a fox cub, but Isla is talented in foxcraft, ancient arts of cunning known only to her kind. Skilled though she is, Isla's grasp of foxcraft is still new. And she's not alone. A cruel and mysterious fox stalks the forest, with the power to enslave others to his will. In order to survive, Isla must learn to trust in the rustic Wildlands foxes.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Foxes; Brothers and sisters; Magic; Human-animal relationships; Missing persons; Survival;
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Babel Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution [electronic resource] : by Kuang, R. F..aut; cloudLibrary;
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War   “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence? 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Epic; Historical; Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Alternative History; Dark Fantasy;
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Frozen II / by Stack, Stevie.; Collado Piriz, Laura.; Disney Storybook Artists.;
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Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Movie novels.; Elsa (Fictitious character from Disney); Anna (Fictitious character from Disney); Olaf (Fictitious character); Princesses; Sisters; Spanish language materials;
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The secret chapter / by Cogman, Genevieve,author.;
"In the latest novel in Genevieve Cogman's historical fantasy series, Irene and Kai have to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist--or risk the wrath of the dangerous villain with a secret island lair. A Librarian's work is never done, and once Irene has a quick rest after their latest adventure, she is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew up is in danger of veering deep into chaos, and she needs to obtain a particular book to stop this from happening. No copies of the book are available in the Library, so her only choice is to contact a mysterious Fae information broker and trader of rare objects: Mr. Nemo. Irene and Kai make their way to Mr. Nemo's remote Caribbean island and are invited to dinner, which includes unlikely company. Mr. Nemo has an offer for everyone there: he wants them to steal a specific painting from a specific world. He swears that he will give each of them an item from his collection if they bring him the painting within the week. Everyone takes the deal. But to get their reward, they will have to form a team, including a dragon techie, a Fae thief, a gambler, a driver, and the muscle. Their goal? The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in a early twenty-first century world, where their toughest challenge might be each other"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Action and adventure fiction.; Librarians; Secret societies;
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Finn and Poe team up! / by Millici, Nate,author.; Parisi, Andrea,illustrator.; Krysinski, Grzegorz,illustrator.; Disney Book Group.;
When Poe is captured by the First Order it is up to Finn to rescue Poe.
Subjects: Adventure stories.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Action and adventure fiction.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Science fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Extraterrestrial beings; Space warfare; Extraterrestrial beings; Space warfare; Adventure and adventurers; Extraterrestrial beings.; Space warfare.; Adventure stories.; JUVENILE FICTION; JUVENILE FICTION; JUVENILE FICTION; Extraterrestrial beings.; Space warfare.;
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The glass hotel / by Mandel, Emily St. John,1979-author.;
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, the story moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Hotels; Missing persons; Ponzi schemes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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