Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXConnelly, Michael
Summary: Baseball is the background for both stories. Two Bagger is the story of a parolee who feels he owes the gang for helping him when he was in jail, but he learns that they expect him to kill someone at Dodger Stadium. Chickasaw Charlie Hoke is a story of a former Major Leaguer who is trying to land a job as a celebrity host at a casino in Las Vegas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONSummary: It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSJolley, Dan
Summary: Superpowered criminals don't stand a chance when the FBI unleashes the bloodhound! Ex-cop Travis Clevenger was the most effective tracker of superhumans in the country, until he was sentenced to twenty years in a maximum-security prison for killing his partner. Offered a reduced sentence in exchange for helping the FBI capture a superpowered serial killer, Clevenger agrees when he learns that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2013
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Summary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by award-winning director Elia Kazan. The emotionally charged film tells the story of lonely youth Cal, who vies for the affection of his hardened father and favored brother, Aron.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray East 2013Kertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KERSummary: Alexander Dreymon reprises his lead role as the great warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg, who must ride once more across a fractured kingdom with several of the series' much-loved returning characters, as they battle alongside, and against, new allies and enemies. Following the death of King Edward, a battle for the crown ensues, as rival heirs and invaders compete for power. And when an alliance...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SEVSummary: The agents of the elite secret government agency are back, trying to stop the bad guys with the use of disguises, electronic gadgets, and their cunning intelligence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MISPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUESummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLILeonardi, Marco
Summary: In turn of the century Mexico, a young woman loves a boy whom her mother forces to marry her sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Like 2011Leopard, Bones
Summary: Aoe, Thel, and Gen, better known as The Lovely Trio, first burst onto the scene five years ago when they saved Earth from a surprise space monster attack. As a result, everyone idolizes them as super-heroic pop icon magical girls, including Gigi, whose brother died as a bystander in one of their battles. But when Gigi witnesses the Lovely Trio battling a monster firsthand, she sees something...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 LEOCarranza, Leonarda
Summary: "In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARLeopard, Kara
Summary: When siblings Charlie, Janet, and Trevor accidentally break an old jar hidden in the woods, they release a cadre of monsters and must find a way to recapture them and uncover the truth about their family's history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KaBoom! 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LEOPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: "A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PADMozley, Fiona
Summary: "Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London that truly never sleeps. Tourists dawdling, chancers skulking, addicts shuffling, sex workers strutting, punters prowling, businessmen striding, the homeless and the lost. Down Wardour Street, ducking onto Dean Street, sweeping into L'Escargot, darting down quiet back alleyways, skirting dumpsters and drunks, emerging on to raucous main...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOZLeonardo, Cory
Summary: Alastair the African grey parrot is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky and his sister, Aggie, by twelve-year-old Fritz, spoiling his plans to fly away with Aggie. Told in Alastair, Albertina, and Fritz's voices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Bosley, Tom
Summary: A collection of short stories which educate children on the ten commandments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV KIDSummary: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DENDiCaprio, Leonardo
Summary: In the 1990s a wealthy stockbroker becomes involved in a securities scam that leads him to a life of crime and corruption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WolfCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WoMoseley, Meg.
Summary: Laura Gantt doesn't mind being home in Prospect, Georgia. What she does mind are the Southern niceties and mini-sermons she has to endure after her mother's unexpected death. On her summer break from teaching in Colorado, Laura wants to focus on wrapping up her mother's estate. Turns out dodging painful memories becomes impossible when her lifelong friend and former beau Sean Halloran reveals...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014