Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kills his only son, Ed Harley seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke the Pumpkinhead, a monstrously clawed and fanged demon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR PUMJackson, Lisa
Summary: There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think that Rachel Gaston got away with murder when she shot and killed her brother in a teenage game. That was twenty years ago, and Rachel is moving on, trying to put the guilt of what happened behind her. On the anniversary of her brother's death she receives a text message: I forgive you. Then she begins receiving midnight phone calls from a blocked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JACSummary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOOSexton, Joe
Summary: "On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protester and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the white district attorney Don...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some precious moments of alone time and leave Pete’s son Kip, a high school senior, in charge of Leigh’s fourteen-year-old daughter Chrissy at their home. Driving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISReeves, Virginia.
Summary: "In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The Yellow Birds), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being sent to prison for manslaughter. Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REEFine, Kathleen
Summary: Teenage addict Emily "Killer" Keller stands accused of killing the family she babysits for, and is on trial for murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FINBismuth, Charlotte
Summary: "The shocking story of New York's most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down in a landmark and precedent-setting case in the fight against opioid addiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.747 BISTheroux, Paul
Summary: "From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021