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(Fictitious character) Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character) Sharpe, Richard Drama Criminal investigation Criminal investigation Drama Criminals Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History, Military 19th century Drama Kidnapping Murder Investigation Parker (Fictitious character) FictionSummary: A selection of exceptional standalone stories following the Dark Knight through his past and future and tying into Zero year, Batman Incorporated, Batman Eternal and more. First readers flash back six years to the time now known as the Zero Year, when the newly returned Bruce Wayne was not yet calling himself Batman, but was already at work fighting Gotham's underworld. Back in the present,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NANSummary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHASummary: Prepare yourself for a terrifying onslaught of monstrous man-eating Graboid, flying Ass-Blasters, and heat-seeking Shriekers in this complete collection of all Seven movies in the Tremors franchise. Throughout the years and may International locations, the Graboids have evolved and become ever more menacing and deadly. Only the gonzo survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) can stop them all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TREStark, Richard
Summary: Fleeing the authorities after a disastrous bank heist, Parker is rescued by Tom Lindahl, a one-time whistleblower tossed aside by the corrupt political establishment, who has a daring scheme to seek revenge and a plan to use Parker to accomplish his goal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStark, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStark, Richard.
Summary: There have been many film adaptations of Richard Stark's novels over the years, but none of them actually featured a protagonist named Parker—and none of them fully captured Parker's chilling tenacity and laconic anticharm. Here for the first time is the real Parker, played by Jason Statham. Adapted by Black Swan screenwriter John J. McLaughlin, and directed by Taylor Hackford, Parker is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2013
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Summary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAIStark, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1972
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CLUSummary: The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Entertainment, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SNOSummary: In 1818 India, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are traveling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angélique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops : an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. acting as agents for 2 entertain Video Ltd. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: Scott & Bailey is a thrilling investigative drama series exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Janet Scott and Rachael Bailey are two detectives from the Major Incident Team of the Manchester Metropolitan Police Department. Despite their differences, impulsive, funny and single Rachel and reflective, married mother-of-two Janet, have a great partnership. Thrown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCOSummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHASummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Everybody tells a story: who they were, how they lived, and most importantly, how they died. Follow a team of expert pathologists, including Dr. Nikki Alexander and Professor Leo Dalton, as they investigate suspicious deaths. In this series, the irrepressible Jack Hodgson, a talented forensic scientist, joins the team as head of a new forensics department. Jack joins Nikki as she investigates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OWaring, Richard (Richard M. N.)
Summary: A greedy fox watches a hungry hen growing bigger every day, knowing that the longer he waits to eat her, the bigger she will be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Filled with humor, wit, and moral dilemmas, this raucous drama tells the true story of New Zealand's most controversial lawyer, Mike Bungay. In a high-profile career that begins in the 1960s and spans decades, he successfully defends alleged murderers, spies, and gang members, but he can't escape his own inner demons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018