Enriquez, Mariana
Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRSummary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDSummary: A retired safecracker thought his criminal past was behind him for good, but when his witless son-in-law fails to repay a ruthless loan shark, violent threats force him to take on one last job to protect his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Season six starts with Alexandria's safety shattered by multiple threats. To make it, the people of Alexandria will need to catch up with our survivors' hardness while many of Rick's people will need to take a step back from the violence and pragmatism they've needed to embrace. These reversals won't happen easily or without conflict. But now Rick's group is fighting for something more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: Picking up immediately after the thrilling cliff-hanger, Negan forces Rick and the group to fall under his will, brutally convincing them to live by his rules. To prevent further bloodshed, Rick genuinely believes they can make life under Negan, however terrible, work. But he soon learns that Negan can't be reasoned with, and they must prepare to go to war now. Victory will require more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: The group crosses paths with a mysterious priest and takes shelter in his church. As Daryl and Carol follow a lead to the whereabouts of Beth, the others begin to realize that they're being hunted. As Bob's life hangs in the balance, the group prepares to face off against the cannibalistic hunters of Terminus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALMacBride, Stuart
Summary: Investigating a murdered body that may be tied to a missing persons case, Sergeant Logan McRae finds his job challenged by Aberdeen gang activity, his responsibility-eschewing former boss, and a new superintendent determined to make his life miserable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MACMartins, Vitor
Summary: The house at Number 8 Sunflower Street tells the stories of three teenagers who have lived within its walls in the 21st century--Ana, a lesbian forced to leave her home, Greg sent to live with his aunt when his parents divorce, and Beto, a would-be photographer living during the COVID pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like her -- a girl filled with ideas and opinions? Someone gallant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEAMacBride, Stuart.
Summary: Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMurray, Martine
Summary: Molly longs for normalcy but when her mother accidentally turns herself into a tree, Molly must embrace all the things she has tried to run away from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MURMacBride, Stuart
Summary: When the serial killer known as "The Inside Man" returns after an eight-year hiatus, Ash Henderson, the Detective Inspector on the case who was framed for the murders, finally gets a shot at freedom--and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacBride, Stuart.
Summary: Investigator Logan McRae tackles another thankless case in MacBride's sharp and suspenseful fifth novel set in gritty Aberdeen, Scotland. Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a brave new world of drug wars, prostitution rings, and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMartins, Elsa
Summary: A highly interactive board book with a simple rhyming text and die-cut holes that allow children's fingers to become elephant trunks in a story about a big and a baby elephant. Very little children and their grown-ups can poke their fingers through the holes to become the trunks of Big Elephant and Baby Elephant and tell a simple story. Baby Elephant learns to reach for leaves to munch, suck up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2021
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Summary: Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star...until she's dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating--it could end her career. Her PR team's desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy--not a soft-hearted British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARMartini, Steve
Summary: When a lawyer friend and his client are murdered outside the San Diego courthouse, attorney Paul Madriani fears he may have been the actual target and takes the case of a suspect he believes may hold the answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMartini, Steve
Summary: When a fellow attorney is gunned down, Paul Madriani takes on a client who may have been involved in his friend's murder. Conflicted between his duty to his client and the search for the truth, Madriani sets off on a dangerous quest that takes him from California to the jungles of Mexico and the ancient cultures of the Yucatan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MAREndicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDKeegan, Marina
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.609 KEEMangal, Maelina
Summary: "Nine-year-old Jayden loves the outdoors, but his mother is nervous about him playing in their neighborhood. With the help of his neighbor Mr. Curtis, can Jayden help Mama see that nature and beauty are all around?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANMarinca, Anamaria
Summary: Set during the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates have twenty-four hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for an illegal abortion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUFiorato, Marina.
Summary: Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to Louis XIV of France to protect his secret daughter. In the present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014