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(Fictitious character) Organa, Leia Drama (Fictitious character) Skywalker, Luke Drama (Fictitious character) Solo, Han Drama Ferris, Lewellyn (Fictitious character) Fiction Magic Fiction Radio plays Science fiction plays, American Science fiction radio programs United States Sound recordings Star Wars films Audio adaptations Wisconsin FictionSummary: From powerful and moving to knee-knocking suspense and troubled love, these darkly comic tales of lives on the edge represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Performances recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and on tour around the country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Ten episodes building on the original story as seen in the film The empire strikes back.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DALDaley, Brian.
Summary: Six episodes of Return of the Jedi building on the original story as seen in the film, using the motion picture score and sound effects.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DALDaley, Brian.
Contents: A wind to shake the stars (27:16) -- Points of origin (27:40) -- Black knight, white princess and pawns (28:02) -- While giants mark time (27:42) -- Jedi that was, Jedi to be (27:28) -- The millennium falcon deal (26:32) -- The Han Solo solution (25:26) -- Death star's transit (28:30) -- Rogues, rebels and robots (27:52) -- The Luke Skywalker initiative (25:08) -- The Jedi nexus (26:58) -- The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DALSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRHouston, Victoria
Summary: When the wealthy McDonough family is murdered just as drilling for nickel and copper on their property is about to start, police chief Lew Ferris discovers that the family was filing a lawsuit to prevent the drilling, setting in motion a deadly chain of events. In the tiny northwoods Wisconsin town of Loon Lake there are rumors that a precious vein of nickel and copper is buried on the property...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHuston, Charlie.
Summary: "Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to thehinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHouston, Gloria.
Summary: Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOUHouston, Pam.
Summary: A woman seeking a reprieve from a going-nowhere relationship finds solace in flying to exotic places around the world from Alaska to Bhutan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHouston, Pam.
Summary: "In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey," says the narrator in the collection's title story. "But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHouston, Victoria
Summary: When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court with his partner-slash-lover, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot from hunters in the area. It's not until a second player-the first victim's mistress and pickleball partner-is killed that Sheriff Ferris realizes this is no hunting accident. Someone is hunting people, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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Summary: When the bodies of a wealthy Chicago industrialist and his wife are discovered in their summer home at the same time that a local lawyer disappears, life becomes complicated for Loon Lake Chief of Police Lew Ferris. Relying on the forensic dental expertise of her close friend and acting coroner, Doc Osborne, Lew soon finds the investigations are even more complicated than she thought when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHouston, Victoria
Summary: It's Lew Ferris's first day as the newly-elected Sheriff of McBride County, and already things are heating up in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The tragic drowning of a teenage girl draws an eerie parallel to the unsolved murder of another teen thirty years earlier, but one of Lew's new subordinates-- Alan Stern, Chief of the Deer Haven Police Department-- has ruled it an accidental death by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them. The exclusive beach community of Oak Bluffs is a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSHousman, Ivelisse
Summary: Iselia "Seelie" Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde...but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie's unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in---and draws her and Isolde into the hunt for a fabled treasure. In a heist gone wrong, the sisters make some unexpected allies and find themselves unraveling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOUHuston, Charlie
Summary: "A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHuston, Charlie.
Summary: Seeking revenge for the theft of a bicycle, four teenage friends discover that the missing item is in the hands of the Arroyo brothers, one of whom is just out of prison, and set out to retrieve it, stumbling upon a methamphetamine lab in the process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSSummary: From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHuston, Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHuston, Nancy
Summary: Sol is a highly gifted six-year-old; his adoring mother believes he is destined for greatness. Yet he is also unsettling, chillingly un-childlike. He bears the same birthmark as his father, grandmoth- er and great-grandmother had before him. When Sol and his family make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets start to emerge.Narrated by children in each generation of the family, "Fault...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUSFuston, Margie
Summary: Since a vampire murdered her mother, Ava has survived foster home after foster home, determined to get revenge. It's been ten years since anyone has seen a vampire-- until Ava stumbles across a hidden magic show where she witnesses impossible illusions. Ava sneaks backstage and catches them in acts they can't explain. But they've been waiting for her: they are part of an ancient secret society...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022