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Summary: Joe Balzer's alcoholism caught up with him in 1990 when he was arrested with two other pilots for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence of alcohol. Joe lost his promising career and his dignity. This memoir chronicles his journey to a federal courtroom, his time in a federal penitentiary system, and his struggle to recapture all that he held dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.292 BALSummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGSummary: The timeless magic of Cinderella returns with Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1965 version of the classic tale filled with music, singing and magic. A poor and mistreated servant girl is transformed into a beautiful princess with the help of her fairy godmother, a pumpkin, a glass slipper and belief in impossible things in order to attend a lavish ball and find her prince!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CiCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CINSummary: An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOUMosley, Walter
Summary: After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread his father's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSBaker, Josey
Summary: Presents a selection of bread recipes, beginning with basic formulas and progressing to more complex flavors, including black pepper parmesan, dark mountain rye, and whole wheat cinnamon raisin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 BAKMosley, Walter
Summary: After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: "A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones , the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi, into John Woman, an unconventional history professor while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a client he initially refused to help, Leonid navigates difficult personal elements in his own life while uncovering dark secrets about the victim's old-money family and its missing heiress.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Easy Rawlins, a private investigator in Vietnam-era Los Angeles, is in need of a source of quick money in order to secure a needed medical treatment for his daughter, so he agrees to take on what he knows is a shady case, trying to track down a storefront attorney who has disappeared along with a case of unspecified documents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Easy Rawlins is in need of money for his daughter Feather's expensive medical treatment, so he agrees to find a missing attorney who seems to be more trouble than he's worth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MosleMosley, Walter.
Summary: When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the experience dissolves his calm, everyday existence into a thirst for revenge and a sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Surviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American, a case that is complicated by Rawlins's changing perspectives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors, Leonid McGill is an old-school P.I. working a city that's gotten fancy all around him. And like New York City itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, "decided to go from crooked to slightly bent." But when he calls in old markers and greases a few NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009