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Abbot, Bea (Fictitious character) Fiction African Americans in television broadcasting Drama African Americans on television Drama Mass media and race relations United States Drama Murder Investigation Fiction Quicke, Ellie (Fictitious character) Fiction Sweden Göteborg Widows England London Fiction Widows Great Britain Fiction Women private investigators England London FictionSummary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAMSummary: When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth meets a magical animal rescuer who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant ten-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey set out on an adventure that will keep viewers on the edge-of-their-seats as the heroes take a bite out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2022
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Summary: Reluctantly leaving America when his wife is given a prestigious fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian grad student struggles with the suffering of the African refugees and immigrants he encounters in his new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABHeley, Veronica.
Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't "do" murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust ... after which Denzil had, expectedly, died. Oliver, Bea's computer geek of an assistant, is delighted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHelle, Helle
Summary: "Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per - the first boyfriend she tells usabout, and the first she leaves - as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Ellie's always disliked the local big estate agent--aka Great White Shark--so is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she's carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie's soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica
Summary: Ellie investigates some mysterious deaths in the community that may or may not be suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church, and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered to be the problem. Worse still, someone dies. When more suspect food turns up, Ellie's investigative instincts are aroused, for these incidents seem connected with her friend's troubled past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica
Summary: While looking into the Holland family business empire, Bea discovers that there is trouble both with the family fortune and within the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica
Summary: Ellie's housekeeper Vera receives a visit from the man who raped her and left her pregnant years earlier as a schoolgirl, and now wants to adopt the child, but Ellie intends to protect Vera and her child from this unwelcome visitor from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: While Bea Abbot worries that she's lost control of her domestic agency, she's asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric musician falsely accused of murder, but Bea doesn't realize how dangerous this might be until he lands on her doorstep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELCoggan, Helena
Summary: Rose Elmsworth has a secret. For eighteen years, the world has been divided into the magically Gifted and the non-magical Ashkind, but Rose's identity is far more dangerous. At fifteen, she has earned herself a place alongside her father in the Department, a brutal law-enforcement organisation run by the Gifted to control the Ashkind. But now an old enemy is threatening to start a catastrophic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGGreer, Helena
Summary: One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan's All Year. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: With gang violence escaling in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURWecker, Helene
Summary: "Set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to The Golem and the Jinni revisits Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WECTursten, Helene
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURTursten, Helene
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tursten 2018Tursten, Helene
Summary: Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019