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Summary: A man charged with murder crashes his car into a bridge at ninety miles an hour in a drag race outside of town, but it appears not by accident as his brake line had been cut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GORGorman, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGorman, Edward
Summary: Returning to his hometown after recovering from his Vietnam War injuries, lawyer Sam McCain investigates a charge against a veteran friend who has been accused of murdering an anti-war protestor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGorman, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GormaGorman, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W GORGorman, Edward.
Summary: Attorney Sam McCain investigates the murder of a young black man in his 1960s Iowa hometown, suspecting a link between the murder and Senator Lloyd Williams, a political official facing a tough re-election campaign, whose daughter is rumored to have been dating the victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGorman, Edward.
Summary: Dev Conrad has spent several years as a paid consultant to senators and congressmen, but not even Dev's skepticism can prepare him for what he finds when he's abruptly pulled in to help get Senator Warren Nichols re-elected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GORContents: Remote / John F. Suter -- Saratoga cat / Edward D. Hoch -- Tom / Bill Pronzini -- The Maltese double cross / Carole Nelson Douglas -- All places are alike / June Haydon -- Hunger / Christopher Fahy -- Ailurophobia / B. W. Battin -- The Maggody files: hillbilly cat / Joan Hess -- Every Wednesday (a novel idea for a short story) / Nabcy Pickard -- The scent of spiced oranges / Les Roberts -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CATSummary: The annual that has included the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Max Allan Collins is back with another array of traditional mysteries and tales of crime and suspense from its usual roster of luminaries. Besides presenting twenty of the year's finest crime and mystery stories, from Sharan Newman and James W. Hall to Anne Perry and Jeffery Deaver, The Deadly Bride is also the only annual to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEAHammett, Dashiell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMSummary: Brand, Max, "The Sun Stood Still"/Mark Twain, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"/Garland, Hamlin, "The Return of a Private"/Harte, Bret, "The Idyl of Red Gulch"/O. Henry, "The Lonesome Road"/Crane, Stephen, "Horses-One Dash"/Henry, Will, "The Streets of Laredo"/Leonard, Elmore, "The Hard Way"/Ellison, Harlan, "The End of the Time of Leinard"/Estleman, Loren D., "Mago's Bride"/Pronzini, Bill,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: M. Evans 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESGerman, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: McKinley Music 1900
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: 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
Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUBurman, Edward
Summary: Traces the discovery of the famed terracotta warriors against a backdrop of what is currently known about the Qin Dynasty, offering scholarly insights into the surprising theories about the creation of the Qin Emperor's remarkable third-century B.C.E. mausoleum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018