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Art thefts Fiction Blackbird Sisters (Fictitious characters) Fiction FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths Murder Investigation Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Pittsburgh (Pa.) Fiction Rich people Fiction Single mothers Fiction Socialites Fiction Women detectives FictionMartin, Clancy W.
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of How to Sell-and based on his viral Huffington Post article-comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject 'If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, CLANCY W MARContents: The hand that holds the bread / George F. Root (1:25) -- The anti-monopoly war song / R.J. Harrison? (2:15) -- The Pacific railroad / George F. Root (2:15) -- The song of the red man / Henry C. Work (2:54) -- The future America / trad. and H.C. Dodge (1:37) -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill / Thomas F. Casey? (2:53) -- A laborer you see, and I love liberty / George W. Loyd (1:03) -- Out of work /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HANLaney, Marti Olsen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 LANLaney, Marti Olsen.
Summary: Describes how introverts can work with their temperament to live a fullfilling life and thrive in an extrovert world, covering such topics as relationships, parenting, socializing, and coping in the workplace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Land Yacht Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 MARHunt, Marvin W.
Summary: Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. This book investigates the many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 HUNMeyer, Marvin W.
Summary: In 1945 an Egyptian peasant discovered a jar filled with ancient manuscripts. Painstakingly restored and translated, these fragments came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library. Included are gospels of Jesus's life that never made it into the modern Christian Bible as well as a treasury of lost, esoteric wisdom that portrays a side of Christianity suppressed by the institutionalized church....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.932 MEYMeyer, Marvin W.
Contents: Albert Schweitzer and the image of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas -- The beginning of the Gospel of Thomas -- Seeing or coming to the child of the living one? : more on Gospel of Thomas saying 37 -- Be passersby : Gospel of Thomas saying 42 and Islamic literature -- Making Mary male : the categories "male" and "female" in the Gospel of Thomas -- Gospel of Thomas saying 114 revisited -- The youth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Press International 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 229.8 MEYMeyer, Marvin W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2004
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Summary: "W. MAXWELL PRINCE (ICE CREAM MAN) continues to push the comics envelope with SWAN SONGS--a moving, multi-artist anthology that explores the way things END...and also how they never really do. The End of the World. The End of a Marriage. The End of Eden. The End of a Sentence. The End of Anhedonia. ...Even The End of the Sidewalk! And along for the terminal ride are some of the industry's best,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PRIMAGOON, MARIAN W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1955
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC MAGMartin, Nancy
Summary: Sensible Philadelphia debutante Nora Blackbird turns sleuth when her friend Lexie becomes the prime suspect in the killing of a prominent Philadelphia philanthropist, but her investigation is complicated by the return of her scheming parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2008
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Summary: When the three Blackbird sisters show up to claim their deceased aunt's supposedly-fabulous country estate, they find a decayed house and a dead body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2003
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Summary: Roxy Abruzzo is working in the architectural-salvage business, salvaging items from the burned out remains of Julius Hyde's home when she spies a statue in the yard. Roxy removes the statue from the property without anyone's knowledge or consent. It probably wouldn't have become a huge issue except for the fact that Julius Hyde ends up murdered and suddenly everyone's on the trail of Hyde's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MARMartin, Nancy
Summary: "Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune to the most undeserving recipient-her dog. The incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a Texas Cattle Cur, not a cuddly lapdog, and when Honeybelle was alive, Miss Ruffles liked nothing better than digging up Honeybelle's famous rose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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Summary: An American tourist prevents the assassination of a member of the British royal family. Soon, the ULA members responsible for the attempt try to take revenge on his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2003
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Summary: When her boss is found bound in pantyhose and shot execution style, Nora Blackbird launches an investigation that brings her face to face with some of the most glamorous suspects in the City of Brotherly Love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2005
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Summary: "Nora Blackbird--pregnant at last!--is spending summer afternoons wallowing in the Bucks County pool of her best friend, Lexie Paine, who has just been released from prison. At night, Nora is covering Philadelphia's high-society events for the local newspaper. And this time she doesn't have to look far for a good story. Next door, a Broadway show is in rehearsal at the estate of Toodles Tuttle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMartin, Nancy
Summary: Roxy Abruzzo is a loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She'd like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine's shady business dealings, though he's trying to reel her in. She'd like to concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs mostly on the up-and-up for a tidy profit. But Roxy knows where all the good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010