Burgert, Annette K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picton Press 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 BurgeSummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FATSummary: Struggling with writer's block and a lackluster love life, once-famous novelist Calvin creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby who inspires him. But not only does this bring his work to life, it also brings Ruby to life, literally. Face-to-face with an actual relationship with his once virtual girlfriend, Calvin must now decide whether to pen this love story or let it write itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUBJohn, Elton.
Contents: Teardrops (with k.d. lang) (4:52) -- When I think about love (I think about you) (with P.M. Dawn) (4:34) -- The power (with Little Richard) (6:24) -- Shakey ground (with Don Henley) (3:50) -- True love (with Kiki Dee) (3:32) -- If you were me (with Chris Rea) (4:23) -- A woman's needs (with Tammy Wynette) (5:16) -- Old friend (with Nik Kershaw) (4:15) -- Go on and on (with Gladys Knight) (5:49)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOHSummary: Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ACCCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ACCSummary: One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. Good thing since as it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home. Unfortunately for Horton, this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC HORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD HortonSummary: Includes two full Sesame Street episodes. In the first episode, Max the Magician (Will Arnett) comes to Sesame Street, and Elmo and his friends learn about addition and subtraction through magic tricks. In the second episode, 'Hat Day,' Elmo and Zoe have a contest to see who can wear the most hats, learning to count, estimate and count by fives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sesame Street Workshop 2012
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD SSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIVaughan, Marcia K.
Summary: A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words Pub. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC VAUSummary: A devout Catholic priest freelances as a private investigator in rural England during the 1920s. When it comes to amateur detective work, don't let this priest's absent-minded air and penchant for an occasionsl tipple fool you. His kindly eyes pick up clues that professionals usually miss, and his keen understanding of human nature lets him search men's souls for motives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media [distributor] 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Colorado 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BURGrimm, Jacob/ Jarrell, Randall (TRN)/ Buckert, Nancy (ILT)/ Grimm, Wilhelm
Summary: Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1972
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GRISummary: J'accuse is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as "a human cry against the bellicose din of armies." Stars Marise Dauvray as Edith, a young woman who is unhappily married to an older man, Franȯis (Sv̌erin-Mars), but is actually in love with a young poet Jean Diaz (Romuald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley, LLC 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELBening, Annette
Summary: Follows the lives of three women living in Southern California during the late 1970s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWEChristie, Annette
Summary: After a disastrous rehearsal dinner, Megan Givens and Tom Prescott vow to call their wedding off, until they wake up the next morning stuck together in a time loop, destined to relive the worst day of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRHess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator-caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power-as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESCate, Annette
Summary: "Raise the drawbridge for a story-within-a-story melding classic fairy-tale trappings with contemporary, tongue-in-cheek wit, abundantly illustrated in black-and-white--a perfect family read. Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible, the lady of the castle--if anything, a bit boring. But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CATLeBox, Annette
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text show different ways that peace can be found, made, and shared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE Set Spanish LeBox 2015Marie, Annette.
Summary: Piper is feeling a bit overwhelmed. With Seiya and Lyre missing, Ash recovering from near fatal injuries, and the Gaians picking fights with daemons all over the city, a girl can't help but think she might be in over her head. And this time, she's on her own. Before she even has a chance to investigate the Gaians' new stockpile of mysterious, high-tech weaponry, an old enemy ambushes her:...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Wood, Annette.
Summary: In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's life from childhood to adulthood. Wood tells of the trials and tribulations of the icon: What difficulties Grandin struggled with and how she's become a hero for the autistic community. She also tells what Temple has done since the movie came out, where she is today, what kind of difference she's made, and what her future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016