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Updated January 8, 2025
Westchester Library System
Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Jurassic Park
Crichton, Michael 1942-2008
Paper Book
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.... "Wonderful...Powerful." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK...
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Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream /
Bissinger, H. G.
Paper Book
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going....
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Watchmen
Moore, Alan 1953-
Paper Book
A "New York Times" Best Seller This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. One of the most...
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. [online electronic book]
Flagg, Fannie.
Ebook
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who's in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who's telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women--the irrepressibly...
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The princess bride.
Goldman, William, 1931-
Paper Book
Now a cult classic, this story of pirates, evil princes, sorcerers, and, most importantly, true love is handsomely repackaged in a commemorative 25th anniversary hardcover. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Slumdog millionaire.
Holwill, Helen
Paper Book
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles...
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl 1968-
Paper Book
NATIONAL BEST SELLER * Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought...
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The shining. [online electronic book]
King, Stephen, 1947-
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the...
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Midnight in the garden of good and evil
Berendt, John 1939-
Paper Book
THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY * An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: "Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast...
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2001 : a space odyssey.
Clarke, Arthur Charles, 1917-2008
Paper Book
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film--and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of...
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Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen :how one girl risked her marriage, her job, and her sanity to master the art ofliving
Powell, Julie 1973-
Paper Book
Julie Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalizeher marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, VolumeI, in a period of 365 days.The result is a masterful medley of BridgetJones' Diary meets Like...
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Never let me go.
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
Paper Book
From the Booker Prize-winning author ofThe Remains of the DayandWhen We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the...
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Dracula. [online electronic book]
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Ebook
Discover the book that inspired -- and terrified -- generations of readers, Bram Stoker's quintessential vampire novel. The beloved novel was a bestseller in Britain when it was published in 1897 and has thrilled readers ever since. One of the most famous novels in the...
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Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit!
Abagnale, Frank W. 1948-
Paper Book
The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad,...
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V for vendetta
Moore, Alan 1953-
Paper Book
In an alternate future in which Germany wins World War II and Britain becomes a fascist state, a vigilante named "V" tries to free England of its ideological chains.
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The hundred-foot journey.
Morais, Richard C., 1960-
Paper Book
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, DreamWorks Studios, and Participant Media. "That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once...
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