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(Fictitious character) Rapp, Mitch (Fictitious character) Rapp, Mitch Fiction Bakersfield (Calif.) Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage FICTION / Thrillers / Political FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Intelligence officers Intelligence officers Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Soviet Union FictionSummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. The BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon₂s Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAITanzer, Molly
Summary: "A Victorian urban fantasy featuring duelists, demons, and the dark arts, inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray. Victorian London is a place of fluid social roles, vibrant arts culture, fin-de-siecle wonders. and dangerous underground diabolic cults. Fencer Evadne Gray cares for none of the former and knows nothing of the latter when she's sent to London to chaperone her younger sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANSummary: Antoine has just been transferred from Normandy to Paris. He is happy, but his wife prefers the country. Antoine loves her dearly, but he loves his job just as much. His co-workers include Inspector Vaudieu, veteran cop Mallet, and Muslim cop Solo. For the most part, they get along pretty well. This is especially so for Antoine and Vaudieu, who develops maternal feelings towards the rookie....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSmyles, Lynne.
Summary: Christmas is fast approaching and with it the exciting anticipation of magical surprises. But when Katie, Nick, Gary, Helena, and Zach log onto the new Tri-Con Dynamics quantum computers, their surprises are anything but magical. The five children are excited to be the first test group to determine whether the new Tri-Con Dynamics quantum computers are kid friendly. When they boot up the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction SmylesKyles, Cedric
Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDBanker, Ashok
Summary: In a world where demigods and demons walk among mortals, the Emperor of the vast Burnt Empire has died, leaving a turbulent realm without an emperor. Two young princes, Adri and Shvate, are in line to rule, but birthright does not guarantee inheritance: For any successor must sit upon the legendary Burning Throne and pass The Test of Fire. Imbued with dark sorceries, the throne is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANMills, Kyle
Summary: Living reclusively in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend, Erin Neal suddenly finds himself back on the international stage when a number of important Saudi oil resources are threatened by a mysterious new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILMills, Kyle
Summary: With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group, Covert-One.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mills 2013Mills, Kyle
Summary: FBI agent Mark Beamon searches for a woman abducted by a religious cult in Arizona. The woman is the granddaughter of the cult's dying leader and he wants to train her as his successor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSummary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CULCander, Chris
Summary: In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cander 2019Danker, Sean.
Summary: I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side." He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire--a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DANLanger, Adam.
Summary: "A novel about a down-on-his-luck short-story writer who becomes embroiled in an elaborate confidence game designed to scam the publishing world"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LANMander, Marina
Summary: "An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market. Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who "every now and then tries out a new father." Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his words--his favorite toys. One February morning his mom doesn't wake up to bring him to school, so Luca--with a father who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mander 2014Tangen, Geir
Summary: "Journalist Viljar Gudmundsson is no stranger to chilling stories. So when he receives an anonymous e-mail in which the writer proclaims their intention to execute a woman for her unpunished crimes, he thinks the whole thing is a bad joke. Such things happen only in bad crime novels, after all. But the next day, the body of a woman is found, and Viljar receives a second e-mail with another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANCander, Chris
Summary: "A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction CanderTapper, Jake
Summary: After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tapper 2018Cannon, Zander
Summary: Ah, Kaijumax Prison, that cesspool of corruption in the South Pacific. Stomp once again into this toxic holding facility for giant monsters and get to know its most fearsome--and most pathetic--inmates! A seething undercurrent of species hatred now grips the pound, and the gangs are vying for ultimate control of the uranium trade. The claws and flame-breath come out as a knock-down,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CANSummary: "Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams₂s years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago, all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WEDSander, Sonia.
Summary: Lego astronauts board the space shuttle and set to work exploring space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SANMills, Kyle
Summary: Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor, especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC FLYMills, Kyle
Summary: Living reclusively in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend, Erin Neal suddenly finds himself back on the international stage when a number of important Saudi oil resources are threatened by a mysterious new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008