Swift, Earl
Summary: On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: The story of Juan David Ortiz, a serial killer and former U.S. Border Patrol agent who murdered four sex workers in Laredo, Texas in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 JERSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Zia, Helen.
Summary: In conjunction with the Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance & Rededication, a 64-page legacy guide has been published. This reference and teaching tool provides important historical context about why we remember Vincent Chin and how his legacy helped ignite the pan-Asian civil rights movement, ultimately building a multiracial, multicultural coalition united for equal justice and human dignity which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Citizens for Justice 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 ZIAMoss, Candida R.
Summary: "For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of unnamed, enslaved coauthors and collaborators. These essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMRichards, Dusty
Summary: "During the Civil War, Texas Rangers Harp and Long John O'Malley patrol a vast, unguarded range, protecting the families of soldiers off fighting at the front. At war's end, the Rangers are disbanded, and the O'Malleys sign on with a cattle drive across the most treacherous and deadly stretch of the American frontier from Texas to Sedalia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RICSummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSwanson, Doug J.
Summary: " The astonishing story of Benny Binion-a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BINION, BENNY BINBenoit, Peter
Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BENSattler, Jennifer Gordon
Summary: A variation of the Easter song, "Here comes Peter Cottontail," featuring Peter Cottontail delivering Easter treats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SAT BOARD BOOKBoggs, Johnny D.
Summary: "The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune -- and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits have got guns, farmers have got sick livestock, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOGWard, Jennifer
Summary: A counting book in rhyme presents various marine animals and their children, from a mother manatee and her little calf one to a mother octopus and her little babies ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rising Moon 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARSlater, Dan
Summary: The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What’s it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? In the border town of Laredo, Texas, Gabriel and his friend Bart abandon promising futures for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 SLASummary: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove: Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE LonSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a fifteen-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott's estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WILSummary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWGriffin, James J.
Summary: "Texas Ranger Lieutenant Luke Caldwell is at home with his family, having just recovered from near-fatal wounds he received during his last assignment. He expects to be assigned to rejoin his former Ranger company. But Major John B. Jones, Commander of the Frontier Battalion, has other plans. He orders Luke to go undercover, one man against the hordes of outlaws plaguing the vast Presidio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIBlacke, Olivia
Summary: "It's springtime in Cedar River, Texas. The annual Bluebonnet Festival is brewing and the whole town is in harmony. Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie thought opening Sip & Spin Records was going to be their biggest hurdle, but the frappé hits the fan when the mayor drops dead--poisoned by their coffee. Since Tansy was the one to brew the coffee, and Juni stumbled upon the mayor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLAFischer, Steve.
Contents: That damn Kefauver Committe -- Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo -- The Havana Mafia Conference : the vote to kill Bugsy -- Fat Irish green -- Help! : we just lost the Thunderbird -- Two dumb Tonys -- A check signed by 3 Las Vegas legends -- Uncle Morrie and Aunt Audrey's Las Vegas vacation -- The story of Mr. Lucky, Tony Cornero -- History and mystery of the Moulin Rouge -- Vegas showgirls -- Frank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkline Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 FISSummary: Larry McMurtry's Dead man's walk : This prequel to Lonesome Dove introduces Gus and Call when they were young Texas Rangers first experiencing the wild frontier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi/RHI Entertainment 2011
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Summary: In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler ... but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiance, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed. Hired to defend the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2016