Summary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY COMSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Danny and Wheeler are two salesmen who trash a company truck while on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice - the two can either do hard time or serve 150 hours of community service in a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad. Once the center's ex-con director gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROLSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEAFerron.
Contents: The chosen ones -- Girl on a road -- Stand up -- Ain't life a brook -- Misty mountain -- Alice says yes -- Call me -- Shady gate -- Independence day -- Shadows on a dime -- Our purpose here -- I am hungry -- I never was to Africa -- Higher wisdom -- Who loses -- Venus as appearances -- My, my -- Phantom center -- Proud crowd ; Pride cried -- Almost kissed -- Sushine -- Sunken city -- Showin' in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherrywood Station 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FERFerron.
Contents: The chosen ones -- Alice says yes -- Venus as appearances -- Still riot -- Primitive future -- Takes a little time [intro] -- Takes a little time -- Ain't life a brook -- I am hungry -- Dazzle the beast -- Signals and messages -- Easy with love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EarthBeat 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FERPowning, Beth
Summary: As a new wife living on the Bay of Fundy in the 1860s, Azuba craves a life beyond the tea and sewing circles. When her husband, Nathaniel, allows her to join him abroad, she faces tests that only a woman with a tenacious spirit and boundless fortitude could conquer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWDowding, Charles
Summary: "Stop digging and start to truly understand the needs of your soil for bumper harvests of healthier crops. Charles Dowding has spent a lifetime perfecting his no dig sysem of growing. At its core is an awareness that soil vitality is a dynamic process involving a web of organisms which we can easily feed and support, enabling our plants to grow strong and healthy, in a weed-free environment....
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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Summary: Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVinge, Vernor.
Summary: "Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Vinge 2011Gomez, Vernona.
Summary: A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story. Born to a small-town California ranching family, the youngest of eight, Vernon "Lefty" Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality right across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty baffled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: "It's always a pleasure to watch a keen mind absorbed in a difficult puzzle, which is how Dave Gurney distinguishes himself in John Verdon's tricky whodunits." -- The New York Times Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The racially polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerdon, John
Summary: "Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream-a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerdon, John.
Summary: Consulting with a young documentary producer only to suffer a bizarre series of accidents shortly afterward, decorated NYPD detective Dave Gurney discovers links to a serial killer cold case that pits him against the nation's top law enforcement experts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVinge, Vernor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Hernon, Peter
Summary: Traces the story of the legendary USS Leviathan, a German luxury liner seized by the U.S. Navy and converted into an armed troop carrier that transported thousands of American forces to Europe after the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 HERVerdon, John.
Summary: Top NYPD homicide detective is pulled out of retirement to solve a gruesome crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERDowning, Julie.
Summary: On the eve of his great operatic triumph "Don Giovanni," Mozart looks back on the events of his life that led to this moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1991
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB MOZART DOWDowning, Michael
Summary: Recently widowed, unhappily stuck on a pricey whiplash tour of Italy, Elizabeth Berman comes face to face with the first documented painting of a teardrop in human history, and in the presence of that tearful mother, and the arresting company of the renowned and anonymous women painted by Giotto in the Arena Chapel, she wakes up to the possibility that she is not lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowling, Gregory
Summary: When a young tour guide, Alvise Marangon, offers to help an English Grand Tourist, little does he know that it will lead to his being embroiled in blackmail and conspiracy. To add to his woes, he is then forcibly recruited into the city's powerful secret service to investigate a murder case. A eluctant spy he may be, but he is a gifted one. Amidst the world of gambling dens and courtesans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowling, Gregory
Summary: "[An] excellent sequel...Dowling's lead's wry sense of humor is a plus." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Tour guide Alvise Marangon thinks he knows Venice better than ever, but now finds himself ensnared by mysteries as obscure as the city and in many cases just as old. Certain that he is finally about to have his guide's license revoked after a tavern brawl, Alvise is instead dragooned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowling, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowling, Daisy
Summary: "An all-in-one resource for every working mother and father Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we've never had a trusted, go-to guide all our own-one that coaches us on how to do well at work, be the loving and engaged parents we want to be, and remain true to ourselves in the process. Enter Workparent. Whether you're planning a family, pushing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2021