Summary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Curley: In a case of mistaken identity, Curley and his pals make things unpleasant for their new teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1947
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Summary: "A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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Summary: Young Han dreams of someday soaring into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving his home, the gritty industrial planet Corellia, far behind. But as long as he's trapped in a life of poverty and crime--and under the thumb of the sinister Lady Proxima and her brutal street gang--reaching the distant stars seems impossible. When Han tries to escape with his girlfriend and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LAFLafferty, Linda.
Summary: In 1606, the grand city of Prague hides an ugly secret: the emperor's bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the prince to unspeakable depravity. Banished to a remote corner of Bohemia, Don Julius comes under the care of a bloodletter who works to purge the vicious humors coursing through the young royal's veins. When the prince meets the bloodletter's daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Publishing 0000
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Summary: "Allison and Max must team up to find his missing uncle Nicholas. Using the journal his beloved uncle left behind as a guide, the duo hurtle headlong into a treacherous and unknown landscape called the Nether. There, they meet a strange girl named Freya and her woefully unheroic wolf, Bunny Biter, who agree to help them in their quest. The group must take on dangerous new foes and unravel the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Fiction Series LaffertyLafferty, William.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: In-Depth Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8245 LAFKater, Peter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATKater, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATDexter, Pete
Summary: The mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXRafferty, Tod.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.2275 RAFCafferty, Jack.
Summary: A popular CNN commentator examines the lives and actions of powerful individuals who have damaged America, discussing such topics as corporate scandals, constitutional crises, lobbyist misdoings, illegal immigration, ethics reform, and the 2008 presidential campaign.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 CAFDexter, Pete
Summary: Peter and his cousin Michael are drawn into the violence of the mob in Philadelphia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, he cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. His columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and in the places he visited across the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In Florida, fame-hungry journalists reopen an investigation into the murder of a county sheriff. They fabricate false evidence and save the convicted man from being executed, for which they are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A look at what some people will do to gain fame. By the author of Paris Trout.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete.
Summary: Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished."-- The New York Times Book Review The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Dexter, Pete.
Summary: The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, a hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence and aims...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Meters
Contents: You've got to change (you've got to reform) -- Stay away -- Birds -- The flower song -- Soul island -- Do the dirt -- Smiling -- Lonesome and unwanted people -- Gettin' funkier all the time -- Cabbage Alley -- People say -- Love is for me -- Just kissed my baby -- What'cha say -- Jungle man -- Hey pocky a-way -- It ain't no use -- Loving you is on my mind -- Africa -- Out in the country -- Fire...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES METCafferty, John.
Contents: On the dark side (2:41) -- Tender years (4:42) -- Runaround Sue (2:15) -- Down on my knees (2:38) -- Hang up my rock and roll shoes (2:22) -- Wild summer nights (3:40) -- Boardwalk angel (4:30) -- Betty Lou's got a new pair of shoes (1:39) -- Those oldies but goodies (remind me of you) (1:47) -- Season in Hell (Fire suite) (6:14).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Volcano Entertainment 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC EDDRafferty, Charles
Summary: "In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer. Charles Rafferty is the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOA Editions Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RAFPablo, Petey.
Contents: Part 2 -- Did you miss me (featuring Baby & TQ) -- Jam y'all -- Freek-a-leek -- O it's on (featuring Young Buck, of G-Unit) -- Let's roc -- Stick 'em up -- Get on dis motorcycle (featuring Bubba Sparxxx) -- Break me off (featuring Missy Elliott) -- Boy's bathroom -- U don't want dat (featuring Lil Jon) -- What you know about it -- I swear -- Roll off -- Be country -- He spoke to me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jive 2004