Archer, Jeffrey
Summary: Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Archer 2017Krakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 KRASummary: Not wanted : Hollywood legend Ida Lupino makes her directorial debut in this ahead-of-its-time shocker! Naive teenager Sally Kelton falls for womanizing jazz pianist Steve Ryan. When the struggling musician suddenly leaves town for another gig, the lovestruck girl runs away from home to find him. But Steve rejects her, leaving Sally to fend for herself on the street. She is taken in by kindly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IDASummary: A journey in the footsteps of the enigmatic young American named Chris McCandless, who vanished and ultimately perished in the Alaskan wilderness. New interviews and never before released letters probe the mystery behind the best-selling book and movie 'Into the Wild.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RETSummary: Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles, and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPKrakauer, Jon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1999
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCANDLESS, CHRISTOPHER KRAMoulton, Rachel Eve
Summary: Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way. The town is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUBrookes, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 BROSummary: A young man on his way to his wedding is stranded several states away. When he hitches a ride with a free-spirited woman, opposites begin to attract.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Forces 1999Summary: The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, this tour de force thriller ... is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by [a] psychopathic serial killer ... [A] fascinating character-study.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HitChild, Lee.
Summary: Hitching a ride to Virginia in a car with three strangers, Jack Reacher finds himself unwittingly involved in a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicholas Brealey Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.404 PARWinton, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINSummary: Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRAArmstrong, Kelley
Summary: The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrick--author of books on the supernatural--brings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2017
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Summary: The visual artist behind such cult films as "Hairspray" traces his haphazard cross-country hitchhiking journey at the sides of a motley group of unsuspecting drivers, including a gentle farmer, an indie band, and the author's unexpected hero.--Publisher iinformation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HARSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2017Radiguès, Max de
Summary: When his girlfriend Louise suddenly changes her relationship status on social media before leaving for summer vacation, Simon decides to hitchhike hundreds of miles to a seaside village to find and confront her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press, a division of Samizdat Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RADSpanbauer, Tom.
Summary: In 1967, seventeen-year-old Rigby John Klusener escapes the narrow confines of his strict, religious farming family and the bigoted community in which he has grown up to hitchhike to San Francisco to discover life's mysteries and his own identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION SpanbauerJohnson, Denis
Contents: Car crash while hitchhiking -- Two men -- Out on bail -- Dundun -- Work -- Emergency -- Dirty wedding -- The other man -- Happy hour -- Steady hands at Seattle General -- Beverly Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHWright, Steven.
Contents: CD. Introduction -- Ants -- Hitchhiking -- Ice -- Dog stay -- Rachel -- 7's and museums -- Water -- Jiggs Casey -- Cross country -- Book store -- Winny -- Apt. -- Babies and skiing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009