Summary: Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights as an unlicensed private detective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORSummary: Writer turned private-eye Jonathan Ames was last spotted duking it out in a dean's office (almost) saving Super Ray from a stalker, and endorsing George's decision to resign from his glossy magazine gig. This season Jonathan will come face-to-face with 'furries', hang with Dick Cavett, and go on the ultimate oedipal investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORSummary: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WINSummary: After an author disappears, an investigator's search for him leads to a small town where events from the author's books are being carried out every day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR INSummary: A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVESummary: A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe 2021
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SUOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SuSummary: An alcoholic novelist meets a widowed hairdresser. He begins to wonder if she murdered her former husbands and if he'll be next.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUEisenberg, Jesse
Summary: Follows the five-day interview between Rolling Stone report David Lipsky and novelist David Foster Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY END1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF END
Summary: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOC1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOC
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOC RATED RSummary: Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic, unlicensed private detective. Moonlighting from his job as a novelist and writer for a New York magazine, Jonathan is looking to jettison some heavy emotional baggage (his girlfriend just dumped him, okay?) through an unusual second career of cracking cases of missing persons, espionage and infidelity in the Big Apple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORSummary: A crime novelist obsessed with an unsolved murder case begins to fantasize about committing a crime of his own. His marriage is an unhappy one, and his desire to be free from his beautiful but damaged wife becomes an obsession. But when his wife is found dead, the lines blur between innocence and intent, forcing the question: who, in fact, is the real killer?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KINRouve, Jean-Paul
Summary: A crime novelist with writer's block investigates the apparent suicide of a small-town model who believed she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOBSummary: This season finds Castle working to identify Beckett's shooter while Beckett struggles to recover from her near-death experience. They also tackle some of New York City's most interesting new cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CASSummary: Together at last: After four seasons of sparring and heated banter, TV's dynamic crime-solving team finds romance! Now that Castle and Beckett have finally given in to their true feelings for each other, how will it affect their work together? AS they try to keep their new relationship under wraps from their co-workers, the unlikely duo must track down the murderer of Beckett's mother, find the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CASSummary: Beckett finds herself in the Captain's chair while Castle makes the leap from author to full-blown Private Investigator. The season begins with a bang as a call from a mysterious stranger puts Beckett on the run and sets off an explosive chain of events. The action gets even more exciting, and a little crazy, when Castle's daughter, Alexis, joins her father to solve the case of a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Famous mystery novelist Richard Castle and NYPD detective Kate Beckett return for the suspenseful third season of ABC's brilliantly funny series. Enjoy every inspired idea and flirtatious moment as this fiery duo solves the strangest homicides New York has to offer. It's the most entertaining season yet as Castle's wildly funny storytelling skills work their way into every case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CASSummary: A famous crime and horror novelist, Rick Castle, helps Kate Beckette of the NYPD homicide department solve crimes. Castle's non-traditional approach to solving the crimes conflicts with Beckett's conservative approach, leading to much tension and a hint of romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CASSummary: The wedding bells are ringing, but will Castle and Beckett really tie the knot? On the biggest day of his life, Castle is nowhere to be found, and it's not because he has cold feet. Now, in a season of brilliant twists and turns, Castle and Beckett take on New York City's most fascinating cases while they try to solve the mystery of their own relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUESummary: When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANGDuchovny, David.
Summary: Facing writer's block, the maturation of his teenage daughter, and the marriage of his ex-girlfriend, a novelist indulges in addictions to sex, drugs, and booze.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Hank tries to collaborate on a rock opera based on his book with a famous rock star while taking up with his beautiful muse; Charlie and Stu compete for the affections of Marcy; Marcy falls under the spell of a seriously radical feminist; Becca drops out of college to become a writer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CALSummary: "The "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary mystery series follows the adventures of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Though Matilda's strict boss warns her that homicides are police-only matters, her aunts can't help but offer their expertise, as well as unsolicited dating...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019