Summary: Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society, leading him to embark on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime that brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego, the Joker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY JOKSummary: Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man" when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect, and dignity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: A young woman seeking revenge for her mother's death sets out to destroy London, a massive city on wheels in a post-apocalytpic world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2019
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MORKilmer, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILHillier, Jennifer
Summary: "Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom -- covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILValderrama, Wilmer
Summary: Manny and Elliot team up to build a race car to enter into the Wood Valley 500 race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Summary: Posing as a grad student, skilled intelligence operative Michel Khoury begins a relationship with a pretty English girl from his apartment building until the secrets he is keeping send the couple running for their lives through London, Berlin, and Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: Alice Brill struggles to come to terms with the hidden truths of her life--her unrealized aspirations as a writer, her lackadaisical marriage, her troubled younger son, and her father, who is slipping into senility in a nursing home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOLHillier, Jennifer.
Summary: Follows a Seattle serial murder investigation centering on Abby Locke, who has been imprisoned for the attempted killing of a police officer and who has captured the attention of a violent fan obsessed with proving her innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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Summary: When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLHillier, Jennifer
Summary: "All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret... Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family - until their world falls apart the day their son Sebastian is taken. A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHillier, Jennifer
Summary: "This is story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong--one of the most popular girls in school--disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILHillier, Jennifer.
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed suspense novels Creep and Freak and whom Jeffery Deaver has praised as a "top of the line thriller writer," The Butcher is a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to die--until they kill again. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous "Beacon Hill Butcher" was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: "The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLWolitzer, Hilma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLKilmer, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILKilmer, Nicholas.
Summary: After seeing a young woman's tattoo with images from an unknown painting of rare and significant value, Fred knows the painting must be found. But anyone who must have seen the painting denies that it exists. Since Fred's employer, the collector Clayton Reed, is out of the country, Fred is left to his own devices and is free to follow the painting's trail, despite distractions presented by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILSlor, Zhanna
Summary: Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her, and where the search leads changes the family forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOTuiasoa, Shar
Summary: "Punky loves to do a lot of things--except meeting new friends. She doesn't feel brave enough. So when her grandmother asks her to go out and grab butter for her famous banana bread, Punky hesitates. But with the help of her grandmother's magical sunglasses, and with a lot of aloha in her heart, Punky sets off on a BIG adventure for the very first time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022