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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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIN

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANA

Goodis, David

Summary: Collects five crime novels of David Goodis all dealing with unfortunate people and dark doomed settings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOO

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIG

Doan, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOA

Meyer, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

Meyer, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2019

Radish, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAD

Déon, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEO

Meyer, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

Radish, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAD

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAD

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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Meyer, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYS MEY

Radish, Kris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAD

Radish, Kris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAD

DeLuise, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers 1990

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DEL

Pon, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017

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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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Boyle, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soundprints 1995

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BOY

Pon, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PON

Pon, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PON

Doan, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOA

Meyer, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

Meyer, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEY

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