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Summary: J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA J

Dunn, Joeming W.

Summary: Retells Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror poem The Raven in graphic novel form.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014

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Summary: "J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years ... was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD J.ED RATED R

Corben, Richard.

Summary: A collection of Edgar Allan Poe's classics adapted by master horror comics artist and Eisner Hall of Fame inductee, Richard Corben.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014

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Jones, John Isaac

Summary: "John Isaac Jones' new biographical novel of Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulence of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating detail."--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Summary: "In 1903, in Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures."-- IMDb

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Anholt, Laurence.

Summary: Because Marie helps her poor parents by modeling for an ill-tempered artist, she becomes a famous ballerina but not in the way she had dreamed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 DEG

Griffiths, Elly

Summary: "Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch--the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Oliveira, Robin.

Summary: "A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Oliveira 2014

Summary: In this semi-biographical film, a famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Cusack, John

Summary: Edgar Allan Poe helps a young Baltimore detective track down a serial murderer whose work is inspired by Poe's writings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAV

Griffiths, Elly

Summary: The new decade is going well for Edgar Stephens and his good friend the magician Max Mephisto. Edgar is happily married, with children, and promoted to Superintendent. Max has found fame and stardom in America, though is now back in England for a funeral, and a prospective movie job. Edgar’s new wife, though—former detective Emma—is restless and frustrated at home, knowing she was the best...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRI

Matthiessen, Peter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Pearl, Matthew.

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Summary: In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark discovers that Poe's final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions and launches his own investigation to resolve the mystery of Poe's death.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PEA

Taylor, Andrew

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAY

Cullen, Lynn

Summary: Struggling to support her family in mid-nineteenth-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUL

Fairstein, Linda A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAI

Fairstein, Linda A.

Summary: When a former residence of Edgar Allan Poe is demolished, a human skeleton is found behind the walls. Soon, Cooper is digging into Poe's tormented life, hoping to discover a clue that will break open the case.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FAI

Kubert, Joe

Summary: Few artists can capture visceral action sequences and the dynamic human form like Joe Kubert, and his expressive talents are fully realized in his 1970s Tarzan comics. This beautiful archive collection-with an introduction by Kubert and color restoration based on Tatjana Wood's original colors-is a must-have for fans of timeless adventure tales and Joe Kubert's undeniable intensity and skill....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2005

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Matthiessen, Peter.

Summary: The arrival of Edgar J. Watson, a complex man with a troubling and violent reputation, spells trouble for the inhabitants of the nineteenth-century Everglades, in a fictional recreation of the life and death of a real life character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Pearl, Matthew.

Summary: In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark discovers that Poe's final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions and launches his own investigation to resolve the mystery of Poe's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POE

Poe, Edgar Allan

Summary: Collects sixteen of Poe's works, in a commemorative volume complemented by essays from twenty contemporary authors, including Stephen King, Nelson DeMille, Sue Grafton, and Lawrence Block.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POE

Shapiro, Barbara A.

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Summary: Young artist Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn in to the world of art forgery when she is persuaded to forge a Degas masterpiece for the Gardner Museum to replace a stolen painting.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SHA

Street, Karen Lee

Summary: Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery. For Poe has inherited a mahogany box containing a collection of letters allegedly written by his grandparents, Elizabeth and Henry Arnold. The Arnolds were actors who struggled to make a living on the London stage,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

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