Skelly, Katie
Summary: "Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKESummary: In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IMiller, Holly Marie
Summary: "At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing, a division of Hachett Book Group, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hélène Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BALSummary: On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bi 2Summary: The apparently perfect lives of three mothers of first graders unravel to the point of murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Big 2017Summary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Griffiths, Elly
Summary: When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a cafae, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the café.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRIMustian, Kelly
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mustian 2021Mustian, Kelly
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Walters, Damien Angelica
Summary: "In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real - and she could prove it. That belief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: New York Detective Jacob Kanon's world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London get the answers he needs. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe, each preceded by a postcard sent to a local journalist, Jacob is in a race against time to stop the killings and find justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POSKrentz, Jayne Ann
Summary: Decades after a mysterious explosion causes the members of their community to develop strange otherworldly symptoms, local investigator Cat teams up with an enigmatic scientist to stop a killer who may be behind Cat's partner's disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRELowe, Katie
Summary: Ten years ago Hannah's husband was brutally murdered in their home, and she (conveniently) doesn't remember a thing about that night. The police charged someone else and put him away for life. And Hannah packed up her six-year-old daughter and left London behind. Now Conviction, a viral true crime podcast known for getting cases reopened and old verdicts overturned, has turned its attention to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWWilliams, Katie
Summary: "A tautly paced novel in which a young mother who was cloned and brought back to life following her own murder comes to suspect that there is more to the story of her life and death than anyone is telling her. What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the clone of the original Louise who, along with four other victims of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Summary: Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHASummary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASSummary: Baffled police turn to forensic pathologists Nikki Alexander, Jack Hodgson and Thomas Chamberlain for help. What's the missing link between a poisoned autistic boy and a football celebrity caught on a sex tape? If a framed ex-soldier didn't kill two boys, who did? How to explain the buried remains of a lap dancer in rural Scotland and the body of a recently pregnant Northern Irish teenager,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014