Champion, David.
Summary: An eccentric Chicago heiress and her entourage are watching Fourth of July fireworks in the backyard of her California mansion when she is shot in the head. A self-styled communist and employee at the mansion is tackled and witnesses swear they saw him shoot her. The young man is so offensive, mega lawyer Bomber Hanson posits he couldn't be guilty and takes the case. Bomber's son and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen A. Knoll 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChampion, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen A. Knoll Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACampion, Alexander.
Summary: Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a case that could make her career or kill it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCampion, Alexander.
Summary: "Quel horreur! When the body of acclaimed Chef Jean-Louis Brault and a shotgun are discovered in an antique Louis Vuitton portemanteau, everyone is convinced it's suicide. Distraught at rumors perpetuated by the vituperative food critic, Lucien Folon, that his restaurant La Mr̈e Denis might lose its precious third Michelin star, Brault was considered to be trs̈ dšol b̌y friends and family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMHampson, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMCanton, Chamein.
Summary: Three friends over forty still wait for Prince Charming in the form of their favorite Austen character, Mr. Darcy. Not quite ready to turn in their hot chick cards for the hot flashes of menopause, they'd like to find a man who is charming, smug, intelligent and cute to share the primes of their lives with (even if one of them doesn't know she's looking). Together they navigate this brave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genesis Press, Inc. 2009
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Champine, Justine
Summary: "When Jess was thirteen, her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister never found out what happened. Instead, they did what they hoped their mother might be doing: survive. As soon as she was old enough, Jess fled the small town of Knife River, wandering from girlfriend to girlfriend like a ghost in her own life, adrift and aimless in her attempts to outrun grief and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim. It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain’s novels, while they finally conclude he’s a traveler from a future time. He agrees to accompany them as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Champlin 2017Champignon, Poppy
Summary: A raccoon continues to say the word "poop" at inappropriate times, until it finally makes sense to do so.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2019
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Summary: "Based on the classic folk song made famous by a beloved trio of children's entertainers, this picture book is best sung aloud! "Skinnamarink" is a timeless anthem of love and inclusion. What does "skinnamarink" mean? You may not find its definition in a dictionary, but the meaning is clear to the generations of children who sang along: friendship, happiness, sharing, community and, ultimately,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Provides lyrics and, on the end papers, sheet music to a song about the pretty planet that spins through space, keeping us safe night and day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHASummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Bridget is a stay-at-home wife whose life as she knows it ends when her husband loses his cushy, high-paying job. Her college degree in literature does not help her find a substantial job, so she accepts a janitorial position at the Federal Reserve. There, she meets Nina and Jackie, who could use some spare scratch as well. Suddenly, it dawns on Bridget that the bank has plenty of what they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADHampton, Nell
Summary: Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--an assignment as the new personal chef to the royal family at Kensington Palace. But no sooner has Carrie Ann touched down across the pond and donned her apron than a dead body crops up beneath the royal kale beds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMChapin, Andrea.
Summary: Katharine de L'Isle, a young widow living at Lufanwal Hall during Queen Elizabeth's brutal persecution of the English Catholics in 1590, is thrown into turmoil when the family priest is murdered and a new schoolmaster named William Shakespeare arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PIASummary: Five years after the shocking events that rocked her hometown in New Zealand, Detective Robin Griffin has returned to Sydney and is trying to rebuild her life. When the unidentified body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realizes "China Girl" didn't die alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOPSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRISummary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWESummary: A pregnant 12 year-old girl who won't reveal who the father is, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a New Zealand lake and disappears. Robin Griffin is called in to investigate and becomes more and more obsessed. As she searches, she slowly begins to realize that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself, a self she has kept well hidden. A powerful and haunting story about our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOPCatherine, Maria
Summary: In pictures and simple text, a child and grandfather enjoy everyday moments together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATSummary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWCatherine, Maria
Summary: In pictures and simple text, a father and child spend their day together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2014