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Criminal investigation Criminal investigation Drama Detective and mystery stories Family life Oregon Seattle Fiction Morse, Inspector (Fictitious character) Fiction Murder Investigation Oxford (England) Fiction Police England Oxford Fiction Seattle (Wash.) Fiction Sullivan, Arthur 1842-1900 DramaSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYFirkins, Jacqueline
Summary: "Harper works in her mom's wedding shop, altering dresses for petulant and picky brides who are more focused on hemlines than love. After years of watching squabbles break out over wedding plans, Harper thinks romance is a marketing tool. Nothing more. Her best friend Theo is her opposite. One date and he's already dreaming of happily-ever-afters. He also plays the accordion, makes chain mail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIRSummary: The wedding contract: Rebecca, a teacher, and Adam, an ad executive are excited to plan their Jewish wedding, but their wedding and future are put into jeopardy when Adam lands a new ad campaign, and their mothers meet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALDexter, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Books 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M DEXDexter, Colin.
Summary: Eleven stories on crime, half with InspectorMorse as the hero. They range from Evans Tries anO-Level, which is on a prison break, to At the Lulu BarMotel, which is on a gang of con artists. By the author ofDaughters of Cain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M DEXSummary: "Widely considered to be the last of his solo plays, 'The Tempest' is Shakespeare's final masterpiece, a tale of 'forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment' in which Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, conjures up a storm to lure his perfidious brother to the enchanted island on which he and his daughter Miranda have spent 12 years in exile"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: The mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXWilkins, Kim
Summary: "Five very different sisters team up against their stepbrother to save their kingdom in this Norse-flavored fantasy epic--the start of a new series in the tradition of Naomi Novik, Peter V. Brett, and Robin Hobb. FIVE ROYAL SISTERS. ONE CROWN. They arethe daughters of a king. Though they share the same royal blood, they could not be more different. Bluebell is a proud warrior, stronger than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: Katy dreams of filling her father's shoes by taking over their ranch, while her father wants better for her. When she finds and tries to tame a wild horse, she learns how alike she and this stallion truly are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLIDexter, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: Peter and his cousin Michael are drawn into the violence of the mob in Philadelphia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In Florida, fame-hungry journalists reopen an investigation into the murder of a county sheriff. They fabricate false evidence and save the convicted man from being executed, for which they are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A look at what some people will do to gain fame. By the author of Paris Trout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete.
Summary: Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished."-- The New York Times Book Review The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALCalkins, Susanna.
Summary: When her daily routine of servitude is shattered by the murder of a fellow servant, seventeenth-century chambermaid Lucy Campion battles legal obstacles, plague-infected crowds, and a brutal killer to prove her wrongly accused brother's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIWilkins, Ebony
Summary: "When Zora grows up, she wants to be just like Aunt Bea. Aunt Bea is the best storyteller she knows! Every day after school, Zora heads to her aunt’s house, where they take out their family book and turn Aunt Bea’s kitchen into their stage. They raid Aunt Bea’s costume chest, filled with colorful garments from her acting days, and even do special voices to tell the stories of swimming coaches,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020