Achindu, Agatha
Summary: When Agatha Achindu came to the US from Cameroon, West Africa, for university, she didn't know what to make of the aisles and aisles of canned foods in the grocery store. She started making meals with fresh ingredients for her roommate; after her first community dinner for fifty fellow students, word spread. Fast-forward thirty years: What started as small dinners and workshops teaching moms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ACHSummary: Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling across Miss Marple's path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are adapted in a series of French TV movies. Set in the 1930s, these iconic stories introduce two new investigators in classic Christie style: Superintendent Larosière, whose passion for beautiful women is matched only by his love of solving puzzling crimes, and his young colleague Inspector Lampion, whose modern sensibilities sometimes clash with those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks, LLC. 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LITSummary: Agatha Christie's world famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of French TV movies, sexy, witty and definitely addictive! Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie style. Chief Inspector Laurence, a man of class and refined taste, and the young ambitious journalist Alice Avril, along with Laurence's ever loyal secretary, Marlene....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AGALosantos, Agata.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loft Publications 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 LosantosSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Never one to sit idle, Miss Marple finds her luxurious Barbados vacation a bit dull until Major Palgrave's murder turns it into A Caribbean Mystery. Her London stay seems a bit too perfect until she discovers something sinister behind the Edwardian façade At Bertram's Hotel. How can Miss Marple resist visiting the seaside villa of a young couple plagued by terrifying memories of a Sleeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Contents: Sugar woman -- Come back home -- Beautiful dreams -- Eventually -- He said/She said -- Interlude: A word from my momma -- Lois Lang -- River keep runnin' -- It's gonna be alright -- Carry the weight -- Whatever happened to our love? -- Keep on -- Ride this train (extended version).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LANCoffey, Tabatha.
Summary: Fans of the hit Bravo show Tabatha's Salon Takeover tune in for the straight-shooting, unvarnished commentary of its ballsy, stylish, and savvy star. Though millions admire Tabatha Coffey's unflinching honesty and never-say-die attitude, some do not and have even taken to name-calling. Refusing to let others define her, she has reclaimed the word "bitch," transforming it to fit the person she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Nagata, Kabi
Summary: The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NAGFranklin, Aretha.
Contents: Jumpin Jack flash (feat. Keith Richards) -- Sisters are doin' it for themselves (feat. Eurythmics) -- I knew you were waiting (for me) (feat. George Michael) -- What now my love (feat. Frank Sinatra) -- Put you up on game (feat. Fantasia) -- What y'all came to do (feat. John Legend) -- Never gonna break my faith (feat. Mary J. Blige and Harlem Boys Choir) -- Through the storm (feat. Elton John)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRAFranklin, Aretha.
Contents: disc 1. Nobody like you -- Once in a while -- Maybe I'm a fool -- Muddy water -- Bill Bailey, won't you please come hom? (alternate version) -- Hard times (No one knows better than I) -- Today I sing the blues -- Won't be long -- Nobody knows the way I feel this morning -- Evil gal blues -- Lee Cross -- Walk on by -- I wonder (where you are tonight) -- God bless the child -- Blue holiday --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRAAkasha System
Contents: Overture (a new world) -- Yawning earth-- Light energy -- Night magic -- Canopy song -- Age of mist -- Amphibia -- Life cycle -- Phytopia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC AKASummary: Sparkling cyanide: An elderly husband and wife are unlikely looking secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a powerful soccer club manager's beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne event. Why didn't they ask Evans?: A local vicar finds a man lying fatally injured and unconscious on the rocks at the foot of a cliff. His last words before passing were spoken clearly to the vicar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAChristie, Agatha
Summary: In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Detective Hercule Poirot is on a journey to Egypt, where the tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that a stylish young woman has been shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th by which time Emily was already dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2011
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Summary: The site of the house called The Towers had once been known as Gipsy's Acre. It was there that Michael Rogers first met a wealthy American oil heiress, Fenella Guteman, whom he was later to marry. Gypsies' warnings, and revelation of a crime follow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: A simple case of theft turns into a triple murder. The girl was dead, clearly a case of suicide. "Or was it suicide," Hercule Poirot mused. Applying his shrewd mind to the disorderly facts and events surrounding the senseless thefts and the subsequent death of the girl, Poirot realized that the suicide really had been murder. Was it part of a larger scheme? Before he could act, there was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: This collection contains 12 crime cases, including the disappearance of Lord Listerdale, a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance, a strange encounter on a train, and a mild woman's sudden personality change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Contents: The case of the middle-aged wife -- The case of the discontented soldier -- The case of the distressed lady -- The case of the discontented husband -- The case of the city clerk -- The case of the rich woman -- Have you got everything you want? -- The gate of Baghdad -- The house at Shiraz -- The pearl of price -- Death on the Nile -- The oracle at Delphi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger. In fact, James is facing a trial for an almost certain open-and-shut case. But Superintendent Spence is suspicious enough to ask for Hercule Poirot's assistance. Soon, the seemingly simple situation turns into a complex web of lies and hidden identities. Novelist Ariadne Oliver joins the hunt to find the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2002