Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Gospodinov, Georgi
Summary: "An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOSBlalock, Georgie
Summary: Springing into post-World War II society, and quite naughty and haughty, Princess Margaret lived in a whirlwind of fame and notoriety. She sparkles in the company of her glittering entourage of wealthy young aristocrats known as the Margaret Set, but can she be a dutiful princess while still dazzling the world on her own terms? The Honorable Vera Strathmore dreams of living and working in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Even though he's now bigger and more active, Wilbur still likes to be carried, but when his Mommy is achy and tired, he rises to the occasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: As the fourth daughter of the perpetually in-mourning Queen Victoria, Princess Louise's life is more a gilded prison than a fairy tale. Expected to sit quietly next to her mother with down-cast eyes, Louise vows to escape the stultifying royal court. Blessed with beauty, artistic talent, and a common touch, she creates a life outside the walled-in existence of the palace grounds by attending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "The unforgettable protagonist of Lola returns in a gritty, high-octane thriller about a brilliant woman who will stop at nothing to protect her growing drug empire, even if she has to go to war with a rival cartel...or her own family. It took sacrifice, pain, and more than a few dead bodies, but Lola has clawed her way to the top of her South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. Her gang has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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Summary: "An astonishing debut crime thriller about an unforgettable woman who combines the genius and ferocity of Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White. The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSummary: Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller. Julien is a middle-age salesman embroiled in a steamy love affair with a married woman who, after a round of kinky sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly Julien is caught up in a police investigation, but just what exactly happened?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Supersleuth Maigret investigates the identity of a derelict found murdered and the motive for his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimenon, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimenon, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSummary: International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in a definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved, and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: "The Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England, has become one of the rural village of Marsden's main tourist attractions. Now it's also a crime scene. Six students went into the tunnel on a private boat. Two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared at the other end of the tunnel carrying only one of the students, who had been knocked unconscious"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGPerec, Georges
Summary: "As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimenon, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982
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Summary: "Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower pace of life. When a woman, who they regularly pass by on their daily strolls, is murdered Maigret can't help but offer his assistance to the local Inspector, a former colleague of Maigret's."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985
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Summary: This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015