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Summary: Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. And in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan roams, traveling between jobs building tract homes across the West. Following a shocking workplace accident in Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads towards the ocean.On his way he passes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOJClark, Clare.
Summary: A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Clare
Summary: "Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal--involving newly discovered van Goghs--that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin inthe 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Clare.
Summary: 1910. Jessica and Phyllis Melville have grown up at Ellinghurst, a family estate fraught with secrets. A headstrong beauty, Jessica longs for London -- the glitter and glamour of debutante life -- while bookish Phyllis dreams in vain of attending university. Into their midst walks Oskar Grunewald, a frequent visitor fascinated by the house but alternately tormented and ignored by the Melville...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASummary: A collection of thirteen original ghost stories, some in rhyme, by Blaise Hemingway and Jesse Reffsin, accompanied by illustrations by Chris Sasaki and Jeff Turley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GHOClark, Clare.
Summary: Returning home from the battlefields of 1855 Crimea, William May struggles to recover from his experiences by working on London's new sewer system, a job that is compromised by a murder accusation that strains his tenuous hold on sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClement, Blaize.
Summary: Working for a new client, a pain-wracked scientist who is either insane or a genius, Floridian pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of a gate-keeper at her client's mansion; she makes the mistake of leaving the scene of the crime without saying anything to anyone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLEClaret, Maria.
Summary: Robby Rabbit badly wants to help Poppa, but things always seem to go wrong. Then he inadvertently helps his father create a chocolate rabbit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1985
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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE CLAClement, Blaize.
Summary: "Pet sitter Dixie Hemingway is on the prowl again in the newest installment of Blaize Clement's classic and beloved series of cozy mysteries, now written by her son, John Clement, using Blaize's notes and ideas for future adventures. Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, THE CAT SITTER'S WHISKERS catches up with Dixie as she heads off for work one morning in the dimly lit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: When Mame, the elderly dachshund in Dixie Hemingway's care, gets away from her to investigate a mound of mulch, Dixie isn't surprised. What the dachshund digs up, however, is very surprising. The dead body she uncovers triggers a set of jolting events that puts Dixie at the center of a hunt for a psychopathic killer--a killer who believes Dixie saw him leaving the scene of the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLESummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSummary: Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Home 2015Lispector, Clarice
Summary: "One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback--with three just-discovered stories. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED NRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Home 2017Lispector, Clarice
Summary: Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors—soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus—are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISLispector, Clarice.
Summary: Clarice Lispector died of cancer at the age of fifty-six on 9th December 1977. "The Hour of the Star" was published that same year and acclaimed by the critics as 'a regional allegory' of extraordinary awareness and insight. Lispector herself defined "The Hour of the Star" as a book 'made without words ... a mute photograph ... a silence ... a question'. The tale of Macabea can be read at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2011
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Summary: Spotting an exotic bird far from its indigenous habitat, pet sitter Dixie Hemingway uncovers sinister forces behind the bird's displacement before a client is murdered and a new friend goes missing with her baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Hired by a famous football player to pet-sit his cats, Dixie meets a celebrity fashion model who claims to be the athlete's wife, a situation that culminates in Dixie's discovery of a ring of high-fashion counterfeiters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Tired of becoming involved in homicide investigations, Florida pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway does not report stumbling upon the corpse of a mansion gate-keeper, a resolve that is complicated when someone reports her presence at the scene of the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway never would have guessed taht her trip tot he veterinarian's office would be anything but ordinary. But when she meets a teenage girl named Jaz in the waiting room, the ordinary is turned on its head, and Dixie is led on a wild-goose chase of epic proportions.--From publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLELaure, Estelle
Summary: "Teen detective Mary Elizabeth continues to unravel a dark conspiracy that has turned her best friend and boyfriend into villainous monsters--all while battling her own inner demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016