Summary: Irene is a single career woman in her 40s with a job to die for. As the secret critic, she checks into the world's finest hotels to assess their standards. Her elegant, unattached lifestyle affords her the freedom to jet around the globe at a moment's notice to experience a world of luxury, but doesn't leave her with much of a personal life. After a chance meeting, she's compelled to re-examine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013
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Summary: U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRUCoyle, Cleo
Summary: "Only Murders in Gotham, the smash hit streaming show, is famous for filming in authentic New York City locations and using real New Yorkers as extras. For their latest episode, they've chosen to spotlight the century-old Village Blend and its quirky crew of baristas. But when the film crew's week of shooting delivers an actual shooting, Clare Cosi and her staff find themselves at the scene of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC COYCoyle, Cleo.
Summary: Claire Cosi, the manager of the village coffeehouse, investigates a fatal hit-and-run and a brutal murder at local wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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Summary: Coffee shop manager Claire Cosi investigates the murder of a website editor after the launch of online sales for a java love potion called "Mocha Magic Coffee" made with her own Village Blend coffee beans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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Summary: After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing café, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But matters really heat up when somebody is torching cafes around the city and firefighters begin to die in suspicious ways...Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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Summary: An anonymous New York investor sets in motion a hostile railroad takeover financed by more than a million dollars in counterfeit bearer bonds issued by a rival railroad. The work is carried out by a ruthless, ultra-secret crime syndicate using an enigmatic beauty hired to beguile unsuspecting bankers while passing the bogus paper. The Texas & Pacific Railroad turns to Pinkerton to stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSoyinka, Wole
Summary: "A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOYCote, Lyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COTDole, Mayra
Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 DOLEngle, Margarita
Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGCore, Leopoldine
Summary: "A sly, provocative, and psychologically astute debut story collection from a 2015 Whiting Award winner In Leopoldine Core's stories, you never know where you are going to end up. Populated by sex workers and artists, lovers and friends, her characters are endlessly striving to understand each other. And while they may seem to operate at the margins, there is something eminently relatable, even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORSole, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLColl, Susan
Summary: Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she fantasizes about going into hiding in the secret back room of her store. Meanwhile, renowned poet Raymond Chaucer has published a new collection, and rumors that he's to blame for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLCoxe, Molly.
Summary: A dog tries to find a way to cool off on a hot summer day on a farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books Pub. Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR ORANGE COXCoxe, Molly
Summary: "Little Cricket wishes he could go someplace where he could play and make noise without waking his new baby brother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books, a division of Random House 2020
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN COXColt, Peter
Summary: "1985, Boston. In Vietnam, Andy Roark witnessed death and horrifying destruction. But for the soldiers who made it back alive, there are other casualties of war--the loss of tenderness, trust, and connection. Still feeling adrift and unsettled, Andy has struck up a welcome friendship with Nguyen, a Vietnamese restaurant owner. Sipping beer and trading memories after the restaurant shutters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Colt 2020Colt, Peter
Summary: "Boston, 1982. Private investigator Andy Roark has spent the past decade trying to rediscover his place in the world. In Vietnam, there was order and purpose. Everything--no matter how brutal--happened for a reason. Back home, after brief stints in college and with the police force, Roark has settled for a steady, easy routine of divorce and insurance fraud cases. Roark's childhood friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLKonnecke, Ole
Summary: Burt was mentally and physically prepared. He checked everything. Again and again. He hesitated. There was something missing-- Oh yes! Refreshment. Not that Burt tried to retreat, no, no, he has just gone for a banana. Maybe if his friends had not all encouraged him, Burt would not dare. But they shouted BURT! because they believed. And it is then, and only then, that Burt felt ready. And he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KONHole, Stian.
Summary: As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLCote, Genevieve
Summary: "As darkness falls, two very different friends explore what scares them... and discover that with a bit of help, it's possible to see things in a new light"-- From dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCote, Genevieve
Summary: The shortsighted but well-meaning Mr. King returns in this delightful story about conservation and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2001