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(Fictitious character) Finn, Huckleberry Fiction Enfants fugueurs Romans, nouvelles, etc Esclaves fugitifs Romans, nouvelles, etc Friendship Fiction Male friendship Fiction Mississippi (Fleuve) Romans, nouvelles, etc Mississippi River Fiction Missouri Fiction Missouri Romans, nouvelles, etc Runaway children FictionSummary: When a new crime scene looks like the carbon copy of a case from her past, forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander hunts for clues to the connection before the evidence gets too hot to handle. Join Nikki and her London colleagues, Doctors Thomas Chamberlain, and Jack Hodgson, in their better-late-than-never efforts to pry secrets from victims₂ remains and catch the killers. Did a gunman target...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Still reeling from the sudden death of Dr. Thomas Chamberlain and the shock departure of colleague Clarissa Mullery, Nikki and colleague Jack Hodgson returns to the Lyell Centre. A case at a high-security prison stirs disturbing memories for Nikki. Recruit Adam causes friction with his impetuous desire to impress. Forensic ecologist Simone's unique knowledge helps solve the murder of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLJohnson, Caleb (Caleb Rick)
Summary: "Wedged between the bluffs and the river for which it's named, there's a small and all-but-forgotten town. Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change--and when the town is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Windsor/Paragon 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CARCarr, Caleb
Summary: A Spanish diplomat's wife has her baby snatched in 1890s New York and the case is given to psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his young assistant who narrates the tale. The probe leads them to a nurse turned serial killer of children, including her own. By the author of The Alienist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarr, Caleb
Summary: In the year 2023, after numerous worldwide calamities, New York psychiatrist, criminal profiler, and historian Dr. Gideon Wolfe acquires evidence that the well-known visual record of President Emily Forrester's assassination in 2018 was altered by her husband, and that the public at large is being deceived by the media every day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarr, Caleb
Summary: "Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARRoehrig, Caleb
Summary: Flynn's girlfriend is missing, and people are suspecting him of knowing something, so he struggles to uncover her secrets as he must also face the truth about himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROERoehrig, Caleb
Summary: "Verona, Italy. Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Romeo dreams of a quiet life with someone who loves him just as he is. But as the heir to the Montague family, he is expected to give up his "womanly" artistic pursuits and uphold the family honor -- particularly in their centuries-old blood feud with a rival family, the Capulets. Worse still, he is also expected to marry a well-bred girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROEEverett, Percival
Summary: A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 0000
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Summary: Eden has always had two loves: her best friend, Lacey, and her crush, Will. And then, almost simultaneously, she loses them both. Will to a car accident and Lacey to the inevitable growing up and growing apart. Devastated by the holes they have left in her life, Eden finds solace in an unlikely place. Before he died, Will set up an account with In Good Company, a service that uploads voices and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVECarr, Caleb
Summary: An epic account about the kingdom of Broken follows the efforts of a solitary noble soldier to confront legendary medieval adversaries to save a fortress city from internal and external dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Carr 2012Roehrig, Caleb
Summary: "The town of Barton Beach is a popular summer destination known for its surfing, sandy beaches, and local restaurants, like the Beachcomber. Or at least it was -- until Flash Fremont washes up dead on the shore. Flash's sixteen-year-old nephew, Zac, is the only one who doesn't believe that Flash died in a freak surfing accident. Zac is determined to find out what really happened to his uncle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROECarr, Caleb
Summary: When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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Summary: An epic account about the kingdom of Broken follows the efforts of a solitary noble soldier to confront legendary medieval adversaries to save a fortress city from internal and external dangers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCrain, Caleb
Summary: A deeply humane novel that explores the fate of candor, good will, and the utopian spirit in a world where technology and surveillance are weaponizing human relationships. One autumn night, as a grad student named Matthew is walking home from the subway, a handsome skateboarder catches his eye. Leif, mesmerizing and enigmatic, invites Matthew to meet his friends, who are experimenting with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAHuett, Caleb
Summary: Ollie has always been happy just being an elf and inventing new games for Christmas with his best friend Celia--but then the current Santa (descendent of the original) decides to retire and announces that there will be an open competition for the position of next Santa (his son Klaus is not pleased) and suddenly Ollie and the other elves are vying with the Santa children for the Big Red Suit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FIC HUEHaley, Alex.
Summary: A family saga centered on an African-American matriarch whose husband was shot for stealing. It follows her descendants as they fight World War II, march for civil rights, join the Black Panthers and help develop Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALEverett, Cal
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text lead the reader through all the preparations for Halloween, from first noticing signs of autumn, through picking a costume, to trick-or-treating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EVEEverett, Percival
Summary: "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024