Summary: The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy; these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 1913, a group of aristocratic men and women gather for a shooting party at an estate in the English countryside. They go through the elaborate rituals of an Edwardian country house party. Times are changing, though, and their values are about to change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOMunson, Derek.
Summary: Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that instead it helps make a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNSummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRIMoretz, Chloe Grace
Summary: Two high school students investigate the death of their classmate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOVMonson, Ander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MonsonRunyon, Damon
Contents: Introduction -- Characters and craftsmen -- Memorable moments -- World series -- Black sox -- Spring training -- Around the world -- Musings and (mostly) ordinary games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 GUYMagson, Adrian
Summary: Harry Tate must find Clare Jardine, a former agent as skilled as himself, who was wounded saving his life and has now disappeared after the Russians assassinated a fellow hospital patient, before the Russians and an old enemy find her first.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGMonsen, Avery
Summary: Lucy introduces herself as the longest dog, displaying a gentle sense of humor but great self-confidence despite the fact that being extremely long is not easy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MONRamlai, Muḥsin
Summary: On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death? The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMRunyon, Damon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beech Tree Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNSummary: Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers which chronicle the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DORHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: L.A. fashionista Haley Randolph just spent two weeks in Europe with her boyfriend Ty Cameron, owner of Holt's Department Store. Life would be perfect if she could just get her hands on the new Sinful handbag--and if she could discover how her nemesis Tiffany Markham ended up dead in her trunk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWMaison, Jessica
Summary: Eva has never been a typical teenager. She grew up in a climate apocalypse, her parents are dead, and the boy she once loved is probably trying to kill her. A few years ago, she discovered a new species born from plastic waste, and she and her world became even stranger. She quickly found she could mold these creatures into other beings - first a butterfly, then a fish, a deer, a bear - and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wicked Tree Press 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAIMagson, Adrian
Summary: "Harry Tate has one rule: you don't abandon your friends. When he learns that former colleague Rik Ferris has had a breakdown and disappeared, allegedly in possession of highly sensitive secrets from MI6's archives, he agrees to look for him and, if possible, bring him back in. But where to begin? Rik could be anywhere in the world. All Harry knows is, if he doesn't find Rik, others will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGMagson, Adrian.
Summary: Former MI5 officer Harry Tate is charged with finding the truth about a war atrocity that allegedly took place under his watch in Kosovo in 1999, but a skillful assassin is taking out potential witnesses before Harry can discover the facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGRunton, Andy
Summary: Owly, a kind, lonely owl, and his friend Wormy find they have to make sacrifices in order to help a family of birds have a safe winter home, and they make some new friends in the process, in this almost wordless book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf 2005
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Summary: On a slightly scary camping trip to study stars in the night sky, Owly and Wormy make new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUNRunton, Andy.
Summary: Good friends Owly and Wormy are disappointed when their new plant attracts fat, green, bug-like things, instead of butterflies, until a metamorphosis occurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RUNHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: Winning a vacation to a resort that caters to the whims of the rich and famous, Haley Randolph, while searching for the hottest beach bag, finds her dream holiday taking a murderous turn when she stumbles upon the body of a maid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: "Abbey Chandler has barely arrived in Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. Through it all, she keeps looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOWHenson, Pene
Summary: "The great outdoors isn't so great for Sydney It-Girl Lien Hong. It's too dark, too quiet, and there are spiders in the toilet of the cabin she is sharing with friends on the way to a New South Wales music festival. To make matters worse, she's been separated from her companions and taken a bad fall. With a storm approaching, her rescue comes in the form of a striking wilderness ranger named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude Press 2017