Summary: Crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz is smart and pretty, but a disaster that shakes news cameraman Steve to the core. Set up on a blind date with Steve, Mary thinks the chemistry is undeniable and just knows she's found her soulmate. She decides to do anything and go anywhere to be with him. Mary's escalating infatuation is encouraged by the self-serving actions of news reporter Hartman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie All 2009Hall, Parnell
Summary: When the obnoxious sixteen-year-old Peggy Dawson asks Cora Felton to solve a puzzle for her, Cora is delighted to find that the puzzle has been stolen. She is less delighted, however, when a blood- Soon a body is discovered in the middle of Main Street, and Cora has a murder investigation on her hands. It does not help matters when she hears that her least favorite ex-husband, Melvin, is in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALShechtman, Anna
Summary: "Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable 'queen of crosswords,' Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of old man Overmeyer. Small problem. Cora's niece, Sherry, who is off on her honeymoon, actually writes Cora's crossword puzzle column for her. So Cora pokes into Overmeyer's death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes. But she soon learns that the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HALDelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: Garrick Rodenheiser crashed, burned and found a second chance when he crawled away from the wreckage of his life four years ago. And while he hasn't exactly escaped his past, he's kept it far enough away. Until trouble in the form of a rain-soaked, bleeding woman comes banging on the door of his remote cabin. True, she doesn't look like a reporter. But the word trust simply isn't in Garrick's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELHall, Parnell.
Summary: It's the battle of the century when Minami, the Sudoku Lady, shows up in Bakerhaven, Connecticut, to meet Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, whose sudoku books have just edged Minami's off the Japanese bestseller list. Before the rivals have a chance to square off, a killer strikes, and a sudoku puzzle is found at the scene of the murder. Now it's a fight to the finish to see who can unmask the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALThorogood, Robert
Summary: Living alone in a faded mansion in Marlow, seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is blissfully happy. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. When the local police don't believe her story, Judith and two unlikely friends decide to investigate for themselves. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. But soon another body turns up, and it seems that a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC THOHall, Parnell.
Summary: With Christmas just around the corner, Puzzle Lady Cora Felton feels no holiday cheer thanks to her role as one of the Eight Maids A-Milking in the local holiday pageant and the murder of an actress in front of an entire audience of witnesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHall, Parnell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HALHall, Parnell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HALHall, Parnell
Summary: Cora Felton's ex-husband's sensational tell-all memoir, Confessions of a Trophy Husband: My Life with the Puzzle Lady, has been optioned for the movies-- and the Puzzle Lady herself is signed on as an associate producer. Cora hopes to have some control over the project, but the truth is that she needs the money. Filming in New York City, Cora finds she doesn't like the script, she doesn't like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHall, Parnell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HALHillebrand, Linda Lascelle.
Summary: Whether you are learning sign language to communicate with a family member, student, coworker, or friend, remembering and using sign language can be easy and fun! A creative way to review and practice, each of the twenty-five puzzles corresponds to a chapter in The Joy of Signing (Third Edition) and includes the answer key
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Publisher / Publication Date: Logion 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 HILSummary: A Scrabble-like game in which one to eight players form individual crossword puzzles with words that can change as players continue to draw tiles throughout the game. When there are no more tiles to draw, first player to use all his/her letters wins. Four alternate games described.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bananagrams, Intl. 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.732 OLSSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISheen, Michael
Summary: Tells the story of Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, two pioneering researchers of human sexuality in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment Llc 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. This pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN ROUWood, Kevin
Summary: "Touring a hacker's hideout might be exciting-if you could get out! Readers of this book have wandered where they shouldn't be and need to use technology knowledge they have and acquire while reading this book to find clues hidden throughout the book. They solve puzzles using technology topics like Boolean logic, binary, and Morse code, as well as critical thinking in order to escape."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOODamm, Peter L.
Summary: Stories of a young boy's journey to adulthood in small town rural Upper Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. A funny, poignant, moving and beautifully written memoir about the challenges, mischief, fears and lessons of growing up as the youngest of five brothers and one sister, Catholic education, the natural world, trying to understand religious and adult mysteries, honor, family, truth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAMM, PETER DAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAMM DAMSummary: Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010