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God came near [large print] : chronicles of the Christ / by Lucado, Max,author.(CARDINAL)346093;
It all happened in a moment--a most remarkable moment. God came near. He came not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as One whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. The hands that held him were not manicured, but callused and dirty. No silk. No ivory. No hype. No party. No hoopla. God had come near...for you. Travel back in time and relive Christ the Son of God becoming man. Come with Max as he brings to life the most important event in history...when God came near. And as you catch a vision of this incredible moment, let it mark the beginning of a new life for yourself. God came near. If he is who he says he is, there is no truth more worthy of your time. --740L
Subjects: Large print books.; Meditations.; Incarnation; Christian life.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 9
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American anarchy : the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century / by Willrich, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)542787;
"From the Gilded Age to the first Red Scare of 1919-1920, the American anarchist movement clashed with some of the nation's most powerful institutions and individuals. Anarchists never comprised more than a small minority the labor movement. Their vision of a world without states, borders, laws, organized religion, or private property proved far too radical for even the most open-minded liberals of their day-particularly when some anarchists advocated terrorist violence. By the turn of the twentieth century, in the face of this challenge to American values and political traditions, American leaders chose to suspend those very values to destroy the anarchist movement. They vilified anarchism as an "alien" contagion, launched an unprecedented buildup of government surveillance, called for draconian restrictions on free speech, and used immigration laws to expel non-citizen anarchists from the nation. This decades-long "war on anarchy" in turn inspired the emergence of the modern civil liberties movement, grounded in Constitutional freedoms of speech and due process. Seeking to defend anarchist thinkers who denounced the liberal idea of the rule of law, this movement breathed new life into the Bill of Rights and spurred debates about the proper limits of government power that continue today. In American Anarchy, award-winning historian Michael Willrich weaves the gripping tale of these anarchists, their allies, and their enemies, showing how they together transformed the United States. Willrich vividly recaptures the radical political world of early twentieth-century New York City-the nation's chief port of arrival for new immigrants and its preeminent financial and industrial center. New York was home to the infamous Russian-Jewish anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and their social network of Eastern European and Italian immigrant radicals, who championed industrial democracy, demanded reproductive freedom for women, and fought for free speech. From the start, their alien status and spectacles of protest made the anarchists targets for government officials. But when anarchists took a stand against the First World War and celebrated the Russian Revolution, the war against anarchy took on a new ferocity. To fight back, Goldman, Berkman, and their colleagues called on lawyers like the young Harry Weinberger, a night-school-educated attorney from the Lower East Side who found his calling defending radicals in criminal trials, Ellis Island deportation hearings, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, and whose work laid the groundwork for the American Civil Liberties Union. By taking the anarchists seriously as flawed but principled political actors, American Anarchy unlocks one of the great puzzles of modern U.S. history, revealing how a powerful national government and a robust conception of individual liberty emerged at the very same moment in the early twentieth century. Clear-eyed, prodigiously researched, and vividly written, it is a deeply resonant story of young radicals who would stop at nothing to change the world, and a powerful democracy willing to suspend its most fundamental freedoms for the illusion of security"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-444) and index.Prologue: The water's edge -- Throttled -- American made -- Catching fire -- No gods, no masters -- The path of the lawyer -- First casualties in war -- Anarchism on trial -- Revolutionists -- To build an ark -- Caught in the juggernaut -- Epilogue: Of hearts that grow not cold.
Subjects: Anarchism; Radicalism;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Last call for the living / by Farris, Peter,author.(CARDINAL)398761;
For bank teller Charlie Colquitt, it was just another Saturday. For Hobe Hicklin, an ex-con with nothing to lose, it was just another score. For Hobe's drug-addled, sex-crazed girlfriend, it was just more lust, violence, and drugs. But in this gripping narrative, nothing is as it seems. Hicklin's first mistake was double-crossing his partners in the Aryan Brotherhood. His second mistake was taking a hostage. But he and Charlie can only hide out for so long in the mountains of north Georgia before the sins of Hicklin's past catch up to them. Hot on Hicklin's trail are a pair of ruthless Brotherhood soldiers, ready to burn a path of murder and mayhem to get their revenge. GBI Special Agent Sallie Crews and Sheriff Tommy Lang catch the case, themselves no strangers to the evil men are capable of. Soon Crews is making some dangerous connections while for the hard-drinking, despondent Lang, rescuing Charlie Colquitt might be the key to personal salvation. Prodigious talent Peter Farris has written a backwoods fairy tale of fate and flight that is also a dark, modern thriller. Like the bastard child of Stephen Hunter's Dirty White Boys and Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, Last Call for the Living is a smashing debut from a writer whose unique and disturbing vision of the world cannot be ignored.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Aryan Brotherhood; Hostages;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Rats : observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants / by Sullivan, Robert,1963-(CARDINAL)326122;
Nature -- City rat -- Where I went to see rats and who sent me there -- Edens alley -- Brute neighbors -- Summer -- Unrepresented man -- Food -- Fights -- Garbage -- Exterminators -- Excellent -- Trapping -- Plague -- Winter -- Plague in America -- Catching -- Rat king -- Golden hill -- Spring -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and contemplate his own place in the world by observing nature. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants -- by observing the rat. Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat stories -- everyone has one, it turns out -- Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. With a notebook and night-vision gear, he sits in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for fabled rat kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities of America. With tales of rat fights in the Gangs of New York era and stories of Harlem rent strike leaders who used rats to win basic rights for tenants, Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses -- its herd-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting yet always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.1230LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Sullivan, Robert, 1963-; Rats; Rats; Urban pests;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The dead guy next door / by Score, Lucy,author.(CARDINAL)623186;
"A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor...who turns up murdered. Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others. Unless the "others" are of the female persuasion. Wink. He's a rebel, a black sheep, a man who prefers a buffet of options to being stuck with the same entrée every night, if you catch his drift. When the pretty, possibly psychic Riley lands at the top of the list of suspects, Nick volunteers to find out whodunit. Only because he likes solving mysteries not because he wants to flex his heroic muscles for the damsel in distress. All they have to do is figure out who pulled the trigger, keep the by-the-book detective with a grudge at bay, and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts. All before the killer discovers she's a loose end that requires snipping"--
Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Romance fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Women psychics; Private investigators; Murder; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 32
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The hideous book of hidden horrors / by Murano, Doug,author.; Ruben, Josh,foreword.;
"The horror is closer than you think. It's lurking beneath the surface. It's waiting around every corner. It's hiding under your bed. It's buried in the backyard. It's stashed in the cellar. It's whispered, implied, unspoken. It's the thing we tried to forget that simply won't die."--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Poetry.; Short stories.; Horror tales.; Monsters; Anthologies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Gnomon : a novel / by Harkaway, Nick,1972-author.(CARDINAL)490446;
In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody during a routine interrogation, Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to the case. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, she finds a panorama of characters and events that Hunter gave life to in order to forestall the investigation: a lovelorn financier in Athens who has a mystical experience with a shark; a brilliant alchemist in ancient Carthage confronting the unexpected outcome of her invention; an expat Ethiopian painter in London designing a controversial new video game. In the static between these mysterious visions, Neith begins to catch glimpses of the real Diana Hunter--and, alarmingly, of herself, the staggering consequences of which will reverberate throughout the world. Gnomon is a dazzling, panoramic achievement from one of the most original voices incontemporary fiction"--950L
Subjects: Black humor.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder; Government investigators; Government, Resistance to; Telepathy; Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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The art of misdirection / by Sly, Jessica,author.;
"Adelynn's visions have returned. But this time, she's not the only one seeing the future before it happens. The conflict with Cornelius Marx is over. Determined to move forward, Adelynn Spencer eagerly charges into her new marriage to Detective Inspector Baze Ford and steals away with him to the countryside city of Bath. While Adelynn wrestles to escape her recurring nightmares of the Irish magician--both waking and sleeping--Baze seeks the city's legendary waters, hoping they'll cure his damaged leg and break his growing opium addiction. Just when they settle in, a string of poisonings strikes Bath--and Adelynn's visions return. But this time, one of the victims survives, bringing her face-to-face with Katherine Quinn, a fiery woman with a penchant for magic and a mysterious bond to Ireland. Katherine soon reveals a shocking secret that causes Adelynn to question everything she once knew about her gift. As Baze and Adelynn desperately try to focus on their marriage and the investigation at hand, Baze's destructive dependence on opium and Adelynn's obsession with uncovering Katherine's shadowy past begin driving them apart. Can they reconcile and catch the killer before poisonous plans bring about deadly consequences?"--Back cover.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Police; Murder; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fearful symmetries : an anthology of horror / by Datlow, Ellen,editor.(CARDINAL)347113;
Includes bibliographical references.A wish from a bone / Gemma Files -- The atlas of Hell / Nathan Ballingrud -- The witch moth / Bruce McAllister -- Kaiju / Gary McMahon -- Will the real psycho in this story please stand up? / Pat Cadigan -- In the year of omens / Helen Marshall -- The four darks / Terry Dowling -- The spindly man / Stephen Graham Jones -- The window / Brian Evenson -- Mount Chary galore / Jeffrey Ford -- Ballad of an echo whisperer / Caitlín R. Kiernan -- Suffer little children / Robert Shearman -- Power / Michael Marshall Smith -- Bridge of sighs / Kaaron Warren -- The worms crawl in / Laird Barron -- The attic / Catherine MacLeod -- Wendigo nights / Siobhan Carroll -- Episode three: On the Great Plains, in the snow / John Langan -- Catching Flies / Carole Johnstone -- Shay Corsham Worsted / Garth Nix.From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror's established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world. Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change by turns tragic and monstrously transformative. Lose yourself amongst the haunted and those who can't let go, in relationships that might have been and never were. Witness in dreams and reflections, hungers and horrors, the shadows cast upon the wall, and linger in forests deep. Come see what burns so bright. ...
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Short stories.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Triple amenaza del fútbol americano by Maddox, Jake,author.(CARDINAL)479715; Pryor, Shawn,author.(CARDINAL)789278; Aburto, Jesus,illustrator.(CARDINAL)490454;
"Michael tiene la velocidad para ser un gran receptor abierto, pero no logra atrapar los pases con consistencia. El técnico defensivo ve potencial en la velocidad de Michael, y le hace probar como back defensivo. Luego el técnico principal lo asigna a los equipos especiales para que regrese los despejes. Michael agradece todas las oportunidades de ayudar a su equipo a ganar, pero sigue afligido por lo difícil que le resulta atrapar los pases. Podrá Michael mejorar sus habilidades de receptor para convertirse en una auténtica triple amenaza?" --Michael's inability to catch the ball overshadows his wide receiver speed, but thanks to his teammates' observations and a visit to the doctor, Michael soon earns his triple threat status.Ages 8-12.Grades 4-6.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Spanish language materials.; Novels.; Sports fiction.; Football stories.; Vision; Teamwork (Sports); Frustration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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