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41) V for Vendetta
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Set in a futurist totalitarian England, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless. Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he's called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for.
A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Graphic Novels
GN SERIES UMBRELLA
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GN SERIES UMBRELLA
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"In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who had previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, 'To save the world.' These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against...
43) Given: Volume 1
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Albany Co. Public Library - Manga
MANGA GIVEN #1
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MANGA GIVEN #1
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"Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hot headed guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their band to the music, and to one another, always brings them back together again. Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all-- with school, with his basketball club, and even with his...
44) Ready player one
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Albany Co. Public Library - Science Fiction Collection
SCIFI CLINE
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SCIFI CLINE
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Science Fiction Collection
SCIFI CLINE
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SCIFI CLINE
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
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CD SCIFI CLINE
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"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review.
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people...
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J SN31B #1
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J SN31B #1
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J FICTION SNICKET
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J FICTION SNICKET
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After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Illustrations.
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"When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients...running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...
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J FICTION MONTGOMERY
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J FICTION MONTGOMERY
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J M767AGG
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J M767AGG
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD FICTION MONTGOMERY
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J CD FICTION MONTGOMERY
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't...
48) The BFG
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J FICTION DAHL
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J FICTION DAHL
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J D137BF
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J D137BF
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD FICTION DAHL
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J CD FICTION DAHL
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Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION OWENS
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FICTION OWENS
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION OWENS
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FICTION OWENS
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
FICTION OWENS
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FICTION OWENS
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
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Albany Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
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LP FICTION OWENS
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
50) The notebook
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION SPARKS
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FICTION SPARKS
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
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FICTION SPARKS
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In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
MP3CD FICTION MITCHELL
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MP3CD FICTION MITCHELL
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After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her Georgia plantation home.
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On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Biography
B HAMILTON
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B HAMILTON
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Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow here recounts...
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J CD FICTION APPLEGATE
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J CD FICTION APPLEGATE
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This Newbery Medal winner and #1 "New York Times" bestseller celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan himself. This Harper Classic edition includes an Author's Note, a redesigned jacket, and more. Illustrations.
55) Disobedience
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"When a young photographer living in New York learns that her estranged father, a well-respected rabbi, has died, she can no longer run away from the truth, and soon sets out for the Orthodox Jewish community in London where she grew up. Back for the first time in years, Ronit can feel the disapproving eyes of the community. Especially those of her beloved cousin, Dovid, her father's favorite student and now an admired rabbi himself, and Esti, who...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION ALDERMAN
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FICTION ALDERMAN
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When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION KING
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FICTION KING
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In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION FLAGG
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FICTION FLAGG
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Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Graphic Novels
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GN SERIES SIN
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60) Holes
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.