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Detective and mystery stories Hobbits (Fictitious characters) Drama Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) Fiction Large type books Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Nineteen twenties Fiction Women painters Fiction Women private investigators FictionSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Contents: Discs 1 & 2: Blu-ray 3D, extended edition, parts 1 & 2 -- Disc 3: Blu-ray, extended edition, plus the filmmakers commentary (includes New Zealand: Home of Middle-Earth: Part 3) -- Disc 4: Blu-ray, the appendices part II: The gathering storm/chronicles of the Hobbit; part 3 -- Disc 5: Blu-ray, the appendices part 12: Here at journey's end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie HobbitSummary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: The hobbit: an unexpected journey: Follow Bilbo Baggins, who along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield - is swept into an epic and treacherous quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kinfdom of Erebor. Runtime:2 hours, 49 minutes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HOBSummary: The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hobbit 2013Summary: Two ace "Repo Men" are out to beat ruthless government agents, UFO cultists, hired thugs, a lobotomized nuclear scientist and the infamous Rodriguez Brothers to an incredibly valuable '64 Chevy containing a secret that can change the course of civilization overnight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REPNesbitt, James
Summary: The comedic lives and relationships of a group of thirty-something British friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COLGrimes, Kenn
Summary: "Three murders in four days! That's a lot of crime in the 1920s for Booker Falls, a small town tucked away in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, a part of the state's Upper Peninsula ... "--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGrimes, Kenn
Summary: The American Civil War, fought over the subject of slavery, stands as a turning point in the country’s history. Yet, more than a century and half after the end of that war, racial bias still threatens to rip this nation apart. The Whipping Post, lays bare the schism within a family divided in its perception and treatment of “Negroes.” To some they are fellow human beings; to others, they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deer Lake Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGrimes, Kenn
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Carter McGlone removes a medal from around the neck of a skeleton he stumbles across in 1912, he has no idea that fifteen years later that same medal will take him on a journey back in time to 1863, where he meets and falls in love with Helen Jones; comes face to face with seventeen-year-old Kiernan O?Doherty who, some sixty years in the future, will be involved in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deer Lake Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGrimes, Kenn
Summary: If Robert Winslow wins a second term as President of the United States, his primary goal will be to initiate a world-wide war to eradicate Islam from the face of the earth. But three people stand in his way: Bobby Winslow, Robert’s son and his opponent in the upcoming election; P. J. Little, an investigative reporter who has learned of the PLOT; and U. S. Army Captain Quincy Bollweber, who may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deer Lake Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRISummary: A film about a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Edwin Thatcher was stabbed to death. That much was obvious. The question, though, is not only who did it but what kind of weapon was used.Enter Myrtle Tully, head librarian at the local college library and amateur sleuth whose efforts over the past three years helped expose the perpetrators of five murders in the small town of Booker Falls, tucked away in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGrimes, Kenn
Summary: "In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRINesbitt, John D.
Summary: "Elwood Lawrence--top hand at the Crown Butte ranch--tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who is said to be a bank robber"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCompton, Kenn.
Summary: Little Rabbit wants to help his father, the Easter Bunny, decorate and distribute eggs for the holiday, but decides to keep the one he has made for someone very special.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1992
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Summary: It’s New Year’s Day, 1921. The small town of Booker Falls, located in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, which less than four months earlier was rocked by a triple homicide, once again finds itself with a murder on its hands when the lifeless body of Frank Mitchell, amateur artist and head librarian at Adelaide College’s library, is discovered on the sawdust covered floor of his studio. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRITrebinčević, Kenan
Summary: "Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him 'Bugs Bunny,' and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected--until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TREKenan, Randall
Summary: "Ten heavenly stories that chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. When Randall Kenan's first collection was published, The New York Times called it "nothing short of a wonder-book." With comparable inventiveness but seasoned by maturity and shot through with humor, his second collection, If I Had Two Wings, riffs on the human relationship with the transcendent. Rooted in Kenan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKenna, Alex
Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENNesbitt, John D.
Summary: Russell Archer has come to Wyoming to fulfill his dream of having his own land. After one season of work on Lidge Mercer's ranch, he receives an offer to become a junior partner. Before long, however, Archer learns that Lidge was caught up in an old crime and fears for his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESNesbitt, John D.
Summary: "An aspiring Ohio transplant's dream of owning his own spread in turn-of-the-century Wyoming is put on hold due to a series of inconvenient murders. Earl Miner, who owns the Pick, makes no bones about insisting that every man who works for him file a claim to 160 acres under the Homestead Act and then sell it to him so he won't be troubled by competing ranchers in the Decker Basin. As soon as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESNesbitt, John D.
Summary: Jim Fontaine wants to get a new start in life by settling on his own piece of land near the town of Redwillow. He isn't there very long, though, when a saloon girl named Emma turns up dead and a friend of his, Charley Drake, gets thrown in jail for the murder. Nora Winterborne, who is new in town, confides to Fontaine that she is interested in the case because Emma was her sister, but she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESNesbitt, John D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996