Summary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRSummary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRASummary: Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSPariat, Janice
Summary: One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSwift, 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: "A graphic history of the Jewish delicatessen, what can be found behind deli counters, and the stories and culture surrounding the food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5676 NADStarr, Emmet.
Summary: A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 StarrBooth, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet Press 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 739.2 BOOSummary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETKarr, Mary.
Summary: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARR, MARY KARJago, Lucy
Summary: ""A bravura historical debut . . . a gloriously immersive escape." -Guardian Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted . . . and with me she could forge something more satisfying from her own ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAGSoloy, Lauren
Summary: "A joyful frolic through the garden helps a little girl feel powerful in this beautiful picture book that celebrates nature. Emily feels small. Small when her mother tells her not to get her dress dirty, small when she's told to sit up straight, small when she has to sit still in school. But when she's in the garden, she becomes Small: a wild, fearless, curious and passionate soul, communing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SOLColins, Luke
Summary: Rev up your reading engines! Gearhead garage is ready to take you for a ride. From screaming fast F1 cars to custom choppers, get to know what's "under the hood" of your favorite vehicles. You're in the driver's seat now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE COLContents: Paper sculpture with Michael Jacobs--Stamped charms with Judi Watanabe--Polymer clay with Judy Belcher--Metal embossing with Magdalena Muldoon--Carving stamps with Sarah Hodsdon--ATC cards & books with MaryJo McGraw--Blizzard book with Karen Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: PageSage 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 ARTBartkowski, Alli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 BartkowskiKarr, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARRJacobs, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 JacobsCarr, Erin Lee
Summary: "A celebrated journalist, bestselling author, and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he collapsed in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker at age twenty-seven, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence--1,936 items in total. What started as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARR, ERIN LEE CARBrowning, Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 BrowningHancocks, Amanda.
Summary: A guide to the tools, materials, and techniques for creating a variety of greeting cards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 HancocksSummary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010