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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Cassidy, Hopalong (Fictitious character) Fiction Kidnapping victims Fiction Lispector, Clarice Translations into English Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Fiction Serial murderers Serial murderers Fiction Short stories Women FictionSummary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFGaskell, Elizabeth
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASGaskell, Whitney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASGaskell, Whitney.
Summary: Overwhelmed when she wins the lottery on the same day that her career derails, she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating, and she ends up in the middle of a media circus, Lucy Parker seeks refuge at the home of an old college friend in Palm Beach, where she tries to build a new life for herself, until the past catches up once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASGaskell, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASAlison, Lorence
Summary: Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who-or what-is killing off the crowd one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALIMaskell, Neil
Summary: When a mentally unstable contract killer agrees to take on a new assignment, his sanity begins to unravel and he questions his own reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR KILMichallon, Clemence
Summary: Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate town where he lives. He's the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. But Aidan has a dark secret he's been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. He's a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there's a ninth he has earmarked for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MICGaitskill, Mary
Contents: College town, 1980 -- Folk song -- Old virgin -- Agonized face -- Mirror ball -- Today I'm yours -- Little boy -- Arms and legs of the lake -- Description -- Don't cry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIMichallon, Clémence
Summary: "A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICSummary: Set in an early nineteenth-century, gossip-driven English town, seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson faces a world of change when her long-widowed physician father remarries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIVGaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASPalmer, Dexter Clarence
Summary: From the highly acclaimed author of Version Control: a stunning, powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story--in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to dead rabbits. Surgeon John Howard is a rational man. His apprentice Zachary knows John is reluctant to believe anything that purports to exist outside the realm of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALGaitskill, Mary
Summary: "Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationships over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the road. Mare is the story of a girl and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GAIGaitskill, Mary
Summary: The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAISummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Lispector, Clarice
Summary: "One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback--with three just-discovered stories. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: WES MULFlorence, Tyler
Summary: A sweet treat awaits Tyler and Tofu when they discover that dessert is delicious and fun to make! Plus Food Network star Tyler Florence shares two carrot cake recipes--one for people, and then a dog-friendly twist on this dessert favorite--and includes a Did You Know? section filled with fun facts about the ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC FLOFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "When John discovers dancing, he finds himself facing ridicule from his soccer teammates and hostility from the dancers at the cultural center. To dance at the Pow Wow, he must learn to balance his responsibilities, confront his fears and embrace both the Irish and the Cree sides of his heritage"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLOPugh, Florence
Summary: When Dani joins her boyfriend Christian and his friends on a trip to a Swedish midsummer festival, things quickly go awry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MIDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MIDMulford, Clarence Edward
Summary: Jim Meeker came down from Montana to run Texas cattle only to find that Hopalong Cassidy's Bar-20 ran the water. When a trio of snake-mean rustlers started themselves a cattle war, the powder was primed, and the guns were cocked. It's friend against friend, brother against brother, and gun against blazing gun. All hell has broken loose and Hopalong Cassidy is smack in the middle of it all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MULPalmer, Dexter Clarence
Summary: Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALLispector, Clarice
Summary: Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors—soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus—are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2019