Summary: He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing, methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away, for a long time. His tightly wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite, an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECAbarbanell, Stephan
Summary: "Keynote For fans of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, Displaced is a deeply intelligent literary debut thriller--set within a world still reeling from WWII--about how the actions of a few can change the course of history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Lee, Stephan
Summary: "In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEPastis, Stephan.
Summary: Accompanied by his sidekick polar bear and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins, Timmy takes his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PASPastis, Stephan
Summary: While his mother and doorman Dave celebrate their wedding, Timmy visits Florida where he forges a new partnership with Dave's nephew, Emilio, when a surprise newcomer shows up and he encounters a thieving six-toed cat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PASPastis, Stephan.
Summary: His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs: for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report is the key to everything, including a good grade. It's dirty business. It's best you know nothing. But one thing is for sure: Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PASTalty, Stephan.
Summary: In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage. Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn’t keep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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Pastis, Stephan
Summary: Though I, Timmy Failure, have solved many notorious crimes and now wish to enjoy my retirement, my fans have begged me to turn my memoirs into a movie, an ode to my greatness. I am, however, beset by enemies, the worst of whom is Tom John John, the buffoonish movie director. What's more, my father is in town, working at a bar, which is obviously just a cover for our father-son crime-fighting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PASPastis, Stephan.
Summary: Meet Timmy Failure, the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. And his lazy sidekick, Total, a 1,500-pound polar bear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PASAudeguy, Stephane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUDPastis, Stephan
Summary: Wendy the Wanderer's overprotective father never lets her go anywhere alone, so when he hires a babysitter, Wendy decides to venture out into Trubble Town alone where she meets Squirrely McSquirrel and other townsfolk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PASPastis, Stephan
Summary: Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PASTalty, Stephan.
Summary: Returning to the working-class Irish-American community of her childhood in South Buffalo, homicide detective Absalom Kearney begins receiving cryptic messages from a twisted serial killer only to find her investigation stymied by her own colleagues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALDunn, Stephane
Summary: Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNLee, Stephan
Summary: "Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she's been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom--and her obsession with SLK, K-pop's top boyband--to herself. She doesn't see how a regular girl like her could possibly become one of those K-pop goddesses she sees on YouTube. Even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEPastis, Stephan
Summary: Timmy Failure is banished from practicing his detective skills in the wake of a missing tooth, a teachers' strike, and his mother's romance with a doorman, situations further complicated by the disappearance of his private notebook.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PASPastis, Stephan
Summary: Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PASPastis, Stephan
Summary: In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PASPastis, Stephan
Summary: His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report is the key to everything, including a good grade. It's dirty business. It's best you know nothing. But one thing is for sure that Timmy Failure will be triumphant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PASPastis, Stephan.
Summary: This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PASPastis, Stephan.
Summary: Timmy is in Key West, Florida, ostensibly for the honeymoon of his mother and Doorman Dave, if they even got married, which Timmy doubts. Of course Timmy gets involved trying to solve a crime and because Total has fled to Cuba seeking political asylum, Timmy must rely on a new partner for help: Doorman Dave's nephew Emilio.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PASTalty, Stephan.
Summary: Pursuing an escaped serial killer to the city limits of Buffalo, homicide detective Abbie Kearney is horrified when teenage girls begin to go missing, a situation that reveals precinct corruption and suggests that the killer is being helped.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALAlgren, Nelson
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGStrahan, Jonathan
Summary: "From Asia to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imaginations in myths and legends. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020