McKelway, St. Clair
Summary: Writing for the magazine from the 1930s through the 1960s, McKelway specialized in light true crime stories about arsonists, embezzlers, counterfeiters, suspected Communists, and innocent men and the fire investigators, forensic accountants, Secret Service men, clueless FBI agents, and biased cops who pursued them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.52 MCKSummary: Wit's End is one of the most challenging and entertaining games you are ever likely to play. You will quickly find out how much you know, and how well your brain really works. This remarkable collection of trivia and brain teasers is drawn from every area imaginable--popular culture, history, science, geography, arts, etc. Four unique card categories will baffle and amuse you. Wrap your mind...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: YA WIT'S ENDFowler, Karen Joy.
Summary: What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWGeary, James
Summary: "A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom."--Stephen Fry. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.7 GREMcCombs, Cass.
Contents: County line -- The lonely doll -- Buried alive -- Saturday song -- Memory's stain -- Hermit's cave -- Pleasant shadow song -- A knock upon the door.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording Co. 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MCCGarcia Peoples
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GARSummary: Join special guest Nathan Lane in the holiday special where Edina has been bitten by the home makeover bug and wants to redecorate the kitchen. The trouble is, she's awfull fuzzy on the specifics. At wit's end, Eddy and Patsy shop for inspiration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ABSSummary: The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her monster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoLucas, Angie
Summary: "Maya and her family have a problem. They try ignoring it, dancing around it, even sweeping it under the rug. Yet the elephant in the room remains. And Maya is at her wit's end figuring out how to hide it from everyone. Then a new friend moves in next door, and Maya begins wondering if there might be a better way to deal with the whole situation?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marble Press 2023
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Summary: "Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly legends, Jay becomes one of the dearly departed in the rare books section. Now, it's up to Lucy Richardson and her fellow...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GATCho, Zen
Summary: "In this sparkling debut, magic and mayhem clash with the British elite... The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty's lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman--a freed slave who doesn't even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2015