Summary: Based on a true account and New York Times best-selling book comes the feature film adaption. Don Piper experienced love, joy and life like he₂d never known during the 90 minutes he was declared dead after a traffic accident. But when he finally wakes in the hospital, Heaven's bliss was replaced by excruciating pain and emotional turmoil. With the support of his family and community, Don clings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANAGoodis, David
Summary: Collects five crime novels of David Goodis all dealing with unfortunate people and dark doomed settings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOSummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIGDoan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOAMeyer, Deon
Summary: "Having jeopardized their careers in an unauthorized investigation that threatened to reveal the corruption in South Africa's halls of power, Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido have been demoted from the elite Hawks police unit. While waiting to be transferred from Cape Town to seemingly mundane duty in Stellenbosch, Griessel receives a disturbing, anonymous letter: "I can only trust you and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYMeyer, Deon
Summary: Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry's Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain Benny Griessel and his colorful partner Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks--the Directorate for Priority Crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2019Radish, Kris.
Summary: Bonding over a court-ordered anger-management class, four women confront challenges in their careers and family lives that caused each of them to snap, difficulties that are attended by an unconventional therapist and her dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADDéon, Michel
Summary: It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a newborn baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEOMeyer, Deon.
Summary: "At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYRadish, Kris.
Summary: Lucky and Addy Lipton are planning a trip to Paradise (Costa Rica) and hoping to get their marriage back on track. But while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. While a maimed Lucky roots himself to the couch, Addy makes a big decision. It's time for things to change--even if that means making drastic choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RADSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIMeyer, Deon.
Summary: After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of a murdered music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes for Rachel to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYS MEYRadish, Kris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADRadish, Kris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADDeLuise, Dom.
Summary: A caterpillar is rejected by various groups of animals, until he achieves his beautiful wings and is able to befriend a similarly unhappy caterpillar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DELPon, Cindy
Summary: Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARBoyle, Doe.
Summary: Sea Otter Pup spends the first months of his life with his mother in a protected cove off the California coast, learning how to hunt for food and care for himself, before venturing out into the dangers of the Pacific Ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soundprints 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BOYPon, Cindy
Summary: "Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONPon, Cindy
Summary: With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PONDoan, Lisa.
Summary: "Jack's parents have decided to guide safaris in Africa, much to Jack's chagrin and none of their previous schemes have worked"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOAMeyer, Deon
Summary: A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter--the tech whiz founder of Alibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Assigned to the case is lead detective Benny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYMeyer, Deon.
Summary: When two South African police officers are murdered by a culprit who threatens to kill an officer every day until a certain cold case is solved, Inspector Benny Griessel struggles to find answers about the death of an ambitious lawyer in spite of no apparent motive or leads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012