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1) Firefly Lane
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"In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all-- beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be, but they make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable....
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Four-year-old Marissa Fordham, brutally slashed and mutilated, witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer.
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"A man gets himself into a little bit of trouble, then a little bit more, then a lot. And then his whole world becomes a nightmare. How does he get himself out of this mess of his own creation? The answer involves the end of an extramarital affair, reconciliation with a daughter he has neglected, and a deadly encounter with a man who comes out of the past bearing bad news and the keys to a new life. Set in Tampa, Florida, in the late 1980s, Suitcase...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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95 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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These 450+ questions will put your knowledge of the most bodacious decade to the test! What's the favourite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? On what date did MTV first air? Which hairstyle was all business in the front and party at the back? What were Hulk Hogan's signature colours? This interactive trivia book about the decade that gave us The Golden Girls, Wham! and the fall of the Berlin Wall, is the ultimate chance to show all your friends...
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Jack Marino thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
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viii, 388 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Boston star-prosecutor-turned-corporate-attorney Jack Marino is savagely beaten in retaliation for his work as head of the District Attorney's Urban Gang Unit. He is then fired because his powerful boss is running for governor. Jack turns to practicing corporate law at his father-in-law's mega law firm. Two years later he is given a chance to get back into criminal law: as a defense counsel in a capital murder case. The case will take Jack back to...
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gaeilge
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Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
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2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"The Upside Down, a place only seen before in psychic visions and nightmares. Will Byers doesn't know what to call the shadowy realm he finds himself in, but he is certain that he is alone and far away from anything close to safe. A strange shrieking monster lurks around every corner and familair voices drift through the air from the other side. To survive, Will holds onto the lessons he's learned in the camaraderie of his friends, and the hope that...
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2023.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"In the 1980s, boom boxes and breakdancing were all the rage, Cabbage Patch Kids were flying off the shelves, and a new TV station called MTV was launched. Kids will love learning about the first at-home video game consoles, jelly shoes, leg warmers, eighties slang, and VCRs! Lighthearted illustrations and approachable language introduce young readers to all this and more hallmarks of the awesome decade"--
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
13) Air
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...
14) Bigger than the game: Bo, Boz, the punky QB, and the making of the modern athlete in the eighties
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
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Deadly class volume 8
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"The crew returns to Kings Dominion to discover things have changed in their absence. The program has changed. Master Lin's schemes revealed. Betrayal. Mystery. The secret of the catacombs beneath the school. A reckoning for the corrupt. Our friends try to hold everything together as Freshman finals loom ever closer ..."--
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Deadly class volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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It's 1988 and Marcus Lopez's first year at Kings Dominion, the elite academy where damaged teenagers are forged into the world's deadliest assassins, is coming to a close, and the final exam is murder ... literally. What few friends, what little love Marcus managed to scrape together become his greatest weakness, as the school descends into chaos. Pass or Fail, no one survives the Freshman Finals without getting blood on their hands.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment...
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2019.
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English
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"The roots of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency reach back to the 1980s in the little town of McGill, Georgia-- where Stella Reid and her seven grandkids enjoy some spooky Halloween fun and stumble into murder...It doesn't take cash, just some good old-fashioned creativity, to turn a pillowcase into a ghost costume or a trashcan into a suit of armor. So even if she has to stick to a budget, Stella Reid always makes holidays like Halloween memorable...
20) 1980s
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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64 pages : illustrations, map ; 31 cm.
Language
English
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