Summary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHOSummary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHOSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO 1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIOSummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMPerry, Thomas
Summary: "A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: In California, Jane Whitefield's business of hiding people is booming. In this novel the Indian heroine has two major clients. One is an eight-year-old boy, running from killers who murdered his parents and are after his huge inheritance, the other is a woman who stole $50 million in an S & L deal and who is being pursued by people who want their money back. By the author of The Butcher's Boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Books 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: When his ex-wife asks him to investigate a sudden crime wave in the Mid-West, Harry Duncan quickly finds himself in conflict with a violent syndicate that targets both him and his ex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: "In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas.
Summary: A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences--half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPerry, Thomas.
Summary: Robert Mallon has lived for ten years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon's desperate attemtps, he loses her, and he becomes obsessed with discovering why. He hires detective Lydia Marks to uncover the secrets of this stranger's life, and what they learn propels them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas.
Summary: When a huge death benefit is paid out, but not to the legitimate beneficiary, and the insurance agent who approved the payment mysteriously vanishes, John Walker joins forces with the enigmatic Max Stillman to find the missing agent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas.
Summary: Bestselling author Thomas Perry returns to the stomping ground of his Edgar-winning debut, The Butcher Boy (1982) , for a new novel pitting a rogue contract killer against the mob.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
View online at OverDrive
Perry, Thomas.
Summary: He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
View online at OverDrive
Perry, Thomas
Summary: "Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by. She is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Perry, Thomas
Summary: Twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town, burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: "Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: After promising her new husband, Dr. Carey McKinnon, that she will retire from her job of helping people disappear, Jane Whitefield takes on one final case, that of a famed plastic surgeon who once was her husband's mentor, only to come face to face withthe deadly and ruthless Face-Changers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Thomas
Summary: "Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2015