Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILChristie, Agatha
Summary: Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent crime of passion? conceals something much more evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRHartman, Christie.
Contents: What's so special about separated and divorced men? -- Proceed with caution : the soon-to-be separated man -- The separated man -- Single, married, or what? : the divorcing man -- The six rules for dating divorcing men -- A man with a past : the divorced man -- The five rules for dating divorced men -- The other woman : the ex -- The five rules for dealing with his ex -- Parents are forever :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.77 HARFeehan, Christine
Summary: "Experience a connection that defies death in this captivating novel in Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. Safia Meziane has trained since birth to protect her tribe, the family she holds so dear. All along she told herself the legends she was raised with were simply that. But now, she must call upon all of her skills to fight what lies ahead. Evil has come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEEFeehan, Christine
Summary: The moment Meiling sees Gedeon, she knows he's a leopard shifter, just as she knows she can't trust him. Gedeon is used to women throwing themselves at him, not throwing his injured body over their beautiful, deceptively strong shoulders and carrying him to safety. As they strike up a working relationship that suits them both, Gedeon starts to rely on Meiling for just about everything. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEFeehan, Christine.
Summary: Whether it's fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he's not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses-both legitimate and illegitimate. While their criminal activity is simply a rumor yet to be proven, no one knows the real truth. The Ferraros are a family of shadow riders capable of manipulating light and dark, an ability Stefano thought ran in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEELauren, Christina
Summary: "All's fair in love and work. The first standalone romance by New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard) is a sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love. Despite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend's Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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Summary: Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, shes got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when shes asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasnt been practicing what shes preached. Fizzy hasnt ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, cant-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAULauren, Christina
Summary: Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached. Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUFeehan, Christine
Summary: Mage Julija Brennan is in the race of her life. Having broken free from her controlling family, Julija's attempt to warn the Carpathians of the coming threat has failed and put a target on her back, and those who are hunting her are close behind. After centuries locked away in a monastery in the Carpathian Mountains, Isai Florea can't believe he's finally found his lifemate, the missing half of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEFeehan, Christine
Summary: "Leopard shifter Sevastyan Amurov has an anger inside of him that burns so hot it's almost impossible to control. His barely leashed rage threatens to break free, until he meets a woman who soothes his restless soul. But his would-be mate comes with strings attached - a relentless stalker who intends to claim her for his own. They barely know each other, but with a very real threat looming just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEEFeehan, Christine
Summary: Leading a team to rescue hostages from radical terrorists, Zeke, a soldier with enhanced abilities, unexpectedly falls for genetically engineered spy Bellisia, who resists relationships to avoid being controlled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEWhite, Christian
Summary: "The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband's secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WHIDodd, Christina.
Summary: Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do, she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DODSummary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHMacomber, Debbie
Summary: After living in the shadow of her overbearing parents for twenty-five years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her life. She moves from Chicago to Portland, reconnects with her favorite aunt, and finds a job as a high-school music teacher. Everything seems to be coming together-- except for her love life, which is going nowhere. Her friend Nichole introduces her to Sam, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Debbie Macomber returns with a powerful and uplifting novel set in the same world as her New York Times bestseller A Girl's Guide to Moving On. After living in the shadow of her overbearing parents for twenty-five years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her life. She moves from Chicago to Portland, reconnects with her favorite aunt, and finds a job as a high-school music teacher....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MACSummary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEVSummary: "Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN L'AUSummary: Presents stories about three different Amish couples, including "Their Second Chance," where Amish nanny Hannah Eicher falls for English fireman Rob Prince, but does not believe their love can overcome her family's objections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRASummary: At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMPAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: Forbidden passions have shaped and haunted the Dollanganger family since their first novel - Flowers in the Attic - debuted 40 years ago. Now discover how twisted the family roots truly are, and witness the clan's origins as a result of one wild and complicated relationship. Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ANDAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors' judgment of her as insufficient--as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020