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Caterers and catering Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction New York (State) New York (State) Fiction Simmons, Bernie (Fictitious character : Crawford) Simmons, Bernie (Fictitious character : Crawford) Fiction Simmons, Libby (Fictitious character) Simmons, Libby (Fictitious character) FictionSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOTGottlieb, Eli
Summary: A middle-aged autistic resident of a therapeutic community where he was sent as a young child rebels against changes in his environment by attempting to return to a family home and younger sibling he only partially remembers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liverlight Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOTSummary: Based on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where over the course of 100 days an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOMGottlieb, Eli
Summary: Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOTCrawford, Isis
Summary: "It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family -- though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other -- and were both ruled accidental. Ada thinks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CRACrawford, Isis
Summary: Quiet Longely, New York, is abuzz with excitement over the opening of a revamped art complex--and catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are helping put on an elaborate tea party for the opening night gala fundraiser. But when the billionaire behind the project drops dead, the Simmons sisters find themselves steeped in a whistling kettle of murder . . . Everyone in Longely is talking about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crawford 2016Grimly, Gris
Summary: "Join goblins, ghosts, witches, and more in this rhythmic countdown, traveling through the countryside and discovering more Halloween creatures along the way. Finally, the story culminates with them all joining together in a joyful celebration under the full harvest moon, dancing until it's time for bed."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRIUris, Leon
Summary: Writer Gideon Zadok leaves the glitter of Hollywood for the newly created State of Israel, where he learns much about himself and love on a dangerous military operation he covers as a war correspondent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URIUris, Leon
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1990
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Summary: "Look around, what do you see? Windows, walls, and doors? Look closer, there's so much more. One rainy day, a kid opens their closet to discover a teleporation chamber. In the adventure of the imagination that follows, we are invited to see our homes as more than places to live -- they are vessels for creativity and joy."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOOElba, Idris
Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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Summary: A man who is seeking election as president of the United States discovers that his biological parents were Jews. He is Quinn O'Connell, a Jew adopted by Irish Catholic parents and his opponent prepares to exploit this.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1999
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Summary: The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Bantam Book 1984
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Summary: Two decades after the Civil War, first-generation Irish-American Zachary O'Hara, son of a legendary Marine and a force of a man in his own right, finds himself playing a critical role as the very existence of the Marine Corps is being decided. If he can help persuade the Secretary of the Navy that the Marines will be crucial to America's security in years to come-- all the while hefting a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URICrawford, Isis
Summary: Ellen's children forget her birthday and her husband forgets their anniversary, but her Mother's Day could not be more surprising as she finds herself in a hotel with a dead body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Crawford 2016Crawford, Isis.
Summary: The gothic old Peabody School will be the perfect place to hold a charity haunted house... until a wealthy socialite is found dead in the gloomy halls. Can the Simmons sisters narrow down the list of suspects, or will they reach a dead end?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRASummary: Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUSCrawford, Isis
Summary: "If anything can be said about the endearingly predictable Margo Hemsley, it's that she always serves elaborate desserts at her mystery book club meetings. That's why everyone fears the worst after she doesn't pick up her order from Bernie and Libby and skips out on the monthly gathering. The Simmons sisters can't imagine their acquaintance vanishing like a character from one of her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CRACrawford, Isis
Summary: When Darius Witherspoon hires them to cater a costume party in honor of his missing wife, Bernie and Libby arrive at the haunted Berkshire Arms only to find out that murder is on the menu when Darius is found hanging from a noose during the festivities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRARadish, Kris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADWaldherr, Kris
Summary: When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead of a heart attack in his bath one morning, his cousin Robert Highstead, a historian turned post-mortem photographer, is charged with a simple task: transport Hugh’s remains for burial in a chapel. This chapel, a stained glass folly set on the moors of Shropshire, was built by de Bonne sixteen years earlier to house the remains of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria 2019