Summary: Mayor Tome Kane's grip on Chicago is as powerful as ever. With high doses of medication, he's able to beat back the physical symptoms of his debilitating brain disease, but it comes at a cost. Committed to his unorthodox agenda, Kane cuts out the cancers within the political machine he helped build. As corrupt heads roll and his list of enemies grows, Kane's virtuous actions begin to erode the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: "The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When New York's most practical-minded 'doctor of love' convinces one of her distraught callers to break off her engagement, the caller's unpredictable fiance decides to get revenge. Creating a fake marriage license, he 'accidentally' weds himself to the doctor, who is already engaged. A wildly unpredictable romance is set in motion that neither one expects to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASummary: Mayor Tom Kane is King of Chicago, and he rules his domain with an iron fist. Deception, scandal, and betrayal go hand in hand with Kane's form of politics. As long as he gets the job done, the people of Chicago look the other way. Despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, Kane is hiding a dark secret. A degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him, and he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2017
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6 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIN RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD PinocchioSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: When Hannah Mills visits a ranch to begin a school project photographing wild mustangs, she soon falls in love with the horses and discovers a plot that threatens their existence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Wild 2012Ware, Ruth
Summary: After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceaseds funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M WARWare, Ruth
Summary: "On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ware 2018Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WARWare, Ruth
Summary: When travel journalist Lo Blacklock is invited on a boutique luxury cruise around the Norwegian fjords, it seems like a dream career opportunity. But the trip takes a nightmarish turn when she wakes in the middle of the night to hear a body being thrown overboard, only to discover that no one has been reported missing from the boat.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Ware 2016Ware, Ruth
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person but also that the cold-reading skills she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWare, Ruth
Summary: "April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Together, they cultivated a group of inseparable friends during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah is expecting her first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP M WARWare, Ruth
Summary: April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends, Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily, during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC WARWare, Ruth
Summary: "Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WareCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WAR
Defever, Warn
Contents: Morning -- Prayer -- Affection -- Fawn and deer -- Jewel -- Prayer wheel -- When flowers covered the earth -- A suicide note -- Blackout in the city -- Sundown.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Stereo 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DefevHare, John
Summary: "Alphonso the alligator snapping turtle heads out for a breakfast hunt but ends up having second thoughts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARWake, Elliot
Summary: "Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he's got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus the scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares it bravely with the world; his fans love his honesty and positivity. But Ren has been living a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAKSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRWare, Chris
Summary: Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 741.5 WARWare, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WARWare, Chris
Summary: "Rusty Brown" is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, "Rusty Brown" literately and literally aims at nothing less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019