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(Fictitious character) Watson, John H Fiction American literature Minority authors Audiobooks Detective and mystery stories, English Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) Fiction Holmes, Sherlock Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Private investigators England Fiction Short stories, American Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) FictionAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Plagued with a troubled past and a bad case of acne, Zits is a 15-year-old Indian boy on the verge of violence. He finds himself hurtled back in time into various eras, places, and situations that totally alter his perspective on his plight.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views--until he becomes the target of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MP3CD FIC ALEWhitehead, Colson
Summary: The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Its 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fac̜ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Whitehead 2021Whitehead, Colson
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHIDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: The man with the twisted lip -- The Musgrave ritual -- The adventure of the cardboard box -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYWhitehead, Colson
Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHIDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: Arthur Conan Doyle delivers crime mysteries of the most thrilling kind as Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson look for suspects in three stories.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Telltapes 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Doyle 2009Doyle, Arthur Conan
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: After failing to stop the murder of Jack Douglas from happening, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves anxious to solve this mystery. The suspect has seemingly vanished into thin air and the mystery solving duo will stop at nothing to catch this murderer who blatantly killed a man in his own castle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: The calculating sleuth and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson solve four puzzles in these stories: "The Adventure of the Final Problem," "The Adventure of Gloria Scott," "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor," and "The Adventure of the Resident Patient."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: A collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's best whodunits.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Telltapes Ltd. 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Doyle 2009Doyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: The speckled band -- The adventure of the copper beeches -- The stock-broker's clerk -- The read-headed league.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: The adventure of the Priory School -- The red-headed league -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Group 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINGDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: A scandal in Bohemia -- Silver blaze -- The adventure of the Copper Beeches -- The adventure of the Priory School -- The red-headed league -- The adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Telltapes Ltd. 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Doyle 2000Doyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: A case of identity (Dvorak, String quintet no. 9) -- The adventure of the crooked man (Greig, String quartet in G minor) -- The naval treaty (Dvorak, String quintet no. 14) -- The Greek interpreter (Dvorak, String quartet no. 10 ; Indian ragas)
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2001