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Detective and mystery films Detective and mystery stories, American Falcons Juvenile literature Merchants Fiction Mystery and detective stories Private investigators Private investigators United States Drama Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) Drama Thrillers (Motion pictures)Czapnik, Dana
Summary: New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate. As she navigates this complex relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CZAGallagher, Tim.
Summary: The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, TIM GALFalconer, Colin
Summary: Babylon, 323 BC. Alexander the Great has survived every effort to kill him. Restless, ruthless, he wonders which world to conquer next. He has a powerful new weapon--the war elephants he brought back from India. He also has a conquest in mind--the fabulous empire of Carthage. As Alexander plots, a war elephant named Colossus violently lashes out against the soldiers who are tormenting him, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FALWhite, Christopher P.
Summary: "In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they--and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice--will melt far faster than previously imagined. The Melting World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.312 WHISmall Feet (Musical group)
Contents: Gold -- Rivers -- All and everyone -- Lead us through the night -- Trenches -- Palm trees -- Backwards falconer -- Bend towards the light -- And repeat -- Dagmar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMAKorman, Gordon.
Summary: Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison -- unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to prove their innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KORX-TG (Musical group)
Contents: Desertshore. Janitor of lunacy (Antony Hegarty, vocals) -- Abschied (Blixa Bargeld, vocals) -- Afraid (Sasha Grey, vocals) -- The falconer (Marc Almond, vocals) -- All that is my own (Cosey Fanni Tutti, vocals) -- Mütterlein (Blixa Bargeld, vocals) -- Le petit chevalier (Gaspar Noé, vocals) -- My only child (Cosey Fanni Tutti, vocals) -- Desertshores (large ensemble, vocals).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK X-TGFalconer, Ian
Summary: Olivia the pig stars in five of her greatest stories.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J FALBox, C. J.
Summary: The author of the Joe Pickett novels presents 10 suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well -- and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there -- in a collection that includes four stories that feature Pickett himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BOXMarsico, Katie
Summary: Falcons are remarkable hunters, capable of snatching prey right out of the air and reaching speeds up to 200 miles per hour. Readers will find out what these powerful predators eat, where they live, and how they use their amazing eyesight to locate prey. They will also learn how falcons socialize and care for their young and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.9 MARTanner, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0497 TANBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: James Lionel Falconer has become the right-hand man of the head of London's most prestigious shipping company. Can James continue to be the master of his own fate, even after entering the lion's den?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRAMann, Don
Summary: "SEAL Team Six and Thomas Crocker are back hunting their most elusive adversary yet: The Falcon. HUNT THE FALCON finds SEAL Team Six chasing "The Falcon," an Iranian terrorist who has been stealing Libyan nuclear material. The hunt takes the team from Bangkok to Caracas in search of The Falcon's forces. Crocker convinces the powers that be to allow him to operate in Iran, and he and the team...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSummary: Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MALWong, Clarissa
Summary: Introduces Sam Wilson, discusses how he became known as Falcon, and shows how he contributes to the Avengers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WONRoy, Ron
Summary: Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bradford 2018Hammett, Dashiell
Summary: The thin man: Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple, are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder when a pretty blonde asks for help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMMiller, Karen
Summary: A royal son, falsely believed to be dead, fights for his father's stolen throne against a bastard-born lord and a duke's widow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILPeters, Elizabeth.
Summary: In Egypt to excavate pyramids, Amelia Emerson and her husband investigate an attempt to kill their son, Ramses. The incident appears connected to a friend of Ramses who is selling forged artifacts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Twilight 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETNewhall, Barbara Falconer
Summary: "How do Americans find faith and live it? Journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall explores the journeys of many diverse believers, hearing their stories of encounters with god and the divine. Along the way she meets many who share their accounts of faith and the loss of faith..." [p. 4 of cover]
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patheos Press 2015
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Summary: Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A soaring epic of honor, greed, betrayal and love from award-winning director Jean-Jacques Annaud. After years of bloody conflict, the leaders of two rival kingdoms reluctantly agree to end the fighting. But when oil is discovered between their territories, the war is re-ignited. Now it is up to their children-young lovers who have married in hopes of bringing the families together-to find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DaySummary: A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why, and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010