Summary: Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2010

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Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009

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Summary: In Toronto during the 1920s, four female detectives continue to rebel against gender norms by taking on the cases not even the police want to touch. From the wilderness to the world of high society, an underground cabaret to a candy factory, the women navigate their personal and private lives together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Carolan

Summary: Goodnight Hawaiian Moon is a whimsical bedtime book with nighttime rhymes by Dr. Carolan and beautiful illustrations by Joanna Carolan. Children and adults will be transported to a tropical dreamland listening to the Read Along CD by Grammy Award Nominee, Amy Hanaiali'i. The CD includes her beautiful rendition of Brahms' Lullaby sung in Hawaiian and English. Amy is accompanied by the award...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Banana Patch Press 2006

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Summary: Multiple Emmy Award winner Jean Smart stars as a legendary Las Vegas comedian who is forced to hire an ambitious young writer. These two talented comedic voices from different generations form an unlikely bond in this new comedy from "Broad City" alums Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky and Emmy Award winning executive producer Michael Schur.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Clark, Martin

Summary: In the summer of 2020, public defender Andy Hughes is assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia. Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian Bullins, is a cunning felon with a long history of violence, and he confesses to the police. He even admits his guilt to Andy. But a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: Collects all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring Continental Op, the hardworking private eye with an unyielding personal code.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: The thin man: Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple, are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder when a pretty blonde asks for help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2011

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Carey Nevin, Judy

Summary: Celebrates all the different kinds of kids in the world, including shy kids, loud kids, and off on adventures kids.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2019

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: A collection of stories about Hammett's famous detective.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992

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Hammett, Dashiell

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: Presents two previously unpublished novellas featuring Nick and Nora Charles that became the basis for the 1930s films "After the Thin Man" and "Another Thin Man."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012

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Hammett, Dashiell

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1988

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Summary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: After signing a plea deal to spare his colleagues at Pearson Specter Litt, Mike faces the harsh realities of prison life as he starts his two-year sentence. Meanwhile, the once bustling PSL offices are now a ghost town. The partners have defected, leaving Harvey, Jessica, Louis, Donna, and Rachel to pick up the pieces. With the firm facing numerous lawsuits as fallout of the plea deal, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Caroll, Robin

Summary: "Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator's life--a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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Hart, Caryl

Summary: Prince George goes on an adventure and discovers a new kingdom. It's full of excitement, friends and even some dragons! What is the kingdom called? SCHOOL!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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