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 TWIBissell, Tom
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of people struggling to bridge the gap between art and life. A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A writer and his wife hire a partner for a threesome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISVassell, Charlotte
Summary: "Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's--catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC VASBissell, Richard
Summary: A thirteen-year-old girl describes life in a small Iowa town in 1913.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1969
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISBissell, Sallie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISRundell, Katherine
Summary: Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUNRundell, Katherine
Summary: In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RUNSummary: The intern of a record company finds himself with both his dream job and biggest nightmare, when he is assigned to retrieve a British rock star and get him to his concert in time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GETRussell, P. Craig
Summary: "This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAIRundell, B. N.
Summary: "It started as a brother defending the honor of his only sister, but it led to a bloody duel and a young man of a prominent family lying dead in the dirt. Gabriel Stonecroft along with his life-long friend, Ezra, the son of the pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal church, at his side, the journey to the far wilderness of the west would begin. One man from prominent social standing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "With the Civil War raging across the land, Reuben thought Colorado Territory was far enough away from the fighting. His time of peace would be short-lived as he was called to South Park to quell southern sympathisers' recruiting efforts. After leaving their peaceful cabin in the mountains, and being confronted by a suspicious band of partisans, he was forced to do what he could to deal a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the west. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave traders that take Pawnee women captive, their purposes take a turn. But slave-traders are nothing compared to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNSummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY RIORundell, B. N.
Summary: The power of a promise made and a promise kept is realized when Jeremiah Thompsett comes of age and accepts the responsibility of fulfilling his mentor's long-held dream. Raised by an escaped slave in the midst of the Arapaho nation in the Wind River mountains, he now must track down the slave catchers that killed his adopted father and stole their cache. The Vengeance Quest takes him and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "The gold rush of 1859 in the Colorado Rockies brought more than just gold seekers. Outlaws, conmen, crooks, and thieves quickly populated the central Rockies, and it was from that element that Reuben and Elly Mae Grundy fled. They had done their part, serving as deputy marshals, but now they wanted time alone and together. Choosing a site far south and away from the gold rush, they built a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNBanks, Russell
Summary: When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCrowe, Russell
Summary: "Roy Freeman is an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth--sometimes,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2024
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Summary: "Jam on toast," sings Frances about the food she likes most--until she has it for the sixth meal in two days.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOBPunter, Russell
Summary: "With his mighty war hammer Mjollnir firmly in his grasp, fearless Norse warrior Thor is on the hunt for action and adventure. Join him on his travels as he takes on terrifying giants and monstrous sea serpents, before the final epic battle of Ragnarok"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PUNPunter, Russell
Summary: "It's opening day at the Snazzy Hotel, but the clumsy unicorn staff are causing one disaster after another! Can anything persuade their VIP guest to stay? This entertaining story for beginner readers has simple rhyming text, stylish illustrations and parents' notes on phonics at the back of the book. With free online audio to listen to the story."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019
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Summary: The adventures of Robin Hood and his band of good-hearted outlaws are vividly brought to life in this action-packed picture strip story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PUNRussell, Bill.
Summary: Presents the illustrated text to the song about the curious spider. Includes musical notation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1993
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Summary: Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011