Summary: "Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Temperance Brennan is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist in Washington, DC. FBI Agent Seeley Booth calls on her to assist with investigations when the standard methods of identifying a body are useless, when the remains are badly decomposed, burned or destroyed beyond recognition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BONSummary: In Season One, Pearl juggled her commitments to the restaurant the eponymous Whitstable Pearl with her side hustle as a PI. In Season Two, Pearl prioritizes her detective work and transition from being a chef who solves crimes to a full-time investigator who just happens to own a restaurant. Pearl's cases overlap with DCI Mike McGuire's police investigations. Their relationship is charged by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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6 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WHISummary: A chilling tale of the American Dream unraveling that examines the choices people make when faced with tragedy. In a quiet suburban community where every driveway has a minivan, every backyard has a swing set and every neighbor feels safe, something no one is prepared for happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gus Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVESummary: Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUKSummary: Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYGrant, Michael
Summary: The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRAKass, Mallory.
Summary: "For the past five hundred years, the Cahills have silently dominated the world. Their desperate hunt for the 39 Clues lies behind some of history’s biggest enigmas--the curse of the Hope diamond, the race to summit Mt. Everest, the wild life and death of Harry Houdini. And now-–finally-–the secrets are out. With an introduction by Rick Riordan, The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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Summary: A simple story about a leprechaun--see where he lives, what he likes, and what happens if you catch one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Book 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE LOESummary: Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoLoehr, Mallory
Summary: A magical Little Golden Book for little unicorn lovers! I am moonlight white. I have a magical horn. I look a lot like a horse, of course. . . So begins this charming Little Golden Book that introduces the magical unicorn to the littlest readers! In thissweet story, gorgeously illustrated by Disney artist Joey Chou, a unicorn tells the readers all about herself ( "My horn can make water clean,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOEMallory, Margaret
Summary: Lady Isobel Hume, an expert swordswoman who agrees to obey her king and wed a French nobleman to form a political alliance, is tempted to betray both her betrothed and her country when she falls in love with Sir Stephen Carleton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALHeyns, Michiel
Summary: ""Live all you can; it's a mistake not to." This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, Frieda finds herself at the center of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Heyns 2017Malloy, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALMalory, Thomas
Summary: Relates the chivalrous and romantic deeds of King Arthur, Launcelot, Gareth, Tristram, Galahad, and other knights of the Round Table.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 MALShalev, Michal
Summary: Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAMallory, Margaret
Summary: When Lady Linnet chooses revenge on those who destroyed her family over marrying her childhood sweetheart, Sir James Rayburn, she immediately regrets her decision and vows to make amends, but he refuses to trust her with his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2010
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Summary: "After being sexually assaulted at a party, Mara started experiencing paranoia and delusional thoughts which resulted in a public psychotic episode freshman year. Now a senior in high school, Mara feels like an outcast who would rather keep to herself than risk being judged. However, the only way she'll graduate is if she can pass her least favorite class: public speaking. Mara is ready to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MALEscoffier, Michaël
Summary: Invites young readers to guess the animals who are involved in different activities at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCSummary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HENLoehr, Mallory.
Summary: A dragon's egg rolls out of its nest in a cave, continuing along a road, past a castle, and through a town, where it bumps against a rock and cracks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: A unicorn has a horn that can do magic, but he wishes that he had wings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Summary: Charlie goes through his bedtime preparations, closes his eyes, and drifts off to sleep, only to be awakened repeatedly by noisy animals outside his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017