Summary: In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HITMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Travis, B. -- Red from green -- Lovely Rita -- Spy vs. spy -- Two-step -- The girlfriend -- Liliana -- Nine -- Agustn̕ -- The children -- O tannenbaum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile.
Summary: Continuing the family saga of her first novel, "Liars and Saints," Meloy's second follows Abby Collins from the age of seven, when her feckless mother and sober father separate, to her success as a young novelist. The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MELMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Tome -- Four lean hounds, ca. 1976 -- Native sandstone -- Ranch girl -- Garrison junction -- Red -- Aqua boulevard -- The river -- Kite whistler aquamarine -- Last of the white slaves -- Thirteen & a half -- Paint -- The ice harvester -- A stakes horse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile
Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX MELMeloy, Maile.
Summary: On Oprah's Summer Reading List for 2010 Award-winning writer Maile Meloy's return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Summary: Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile
Summary: "From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile
Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELSummary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AIR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AIRSummary: "Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Tennesee's Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain's acclaimed Mumford & Sons hopped on a beautiful vintage train and set out across America on a 'tour of dreams.' With poignancy and beauty, Malloy documents these incredible musicians as they ride the rails and wow the crowds from Oakland to New Orleans"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: S2BN Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIGSummary: When a beloved Summer Camp Director dies, the popular boys' haven will be closed by the heartless Attorney who inherits it unless a dedicated young Camp Counselor can change his mind over one last summer, with the comic help of his oddball Campers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar Inc. 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAGContents: New York New York (Ryan Adams) (3:48) -- Nite and fog (Mercury Rev) (3:57) -- October swimmer (JJ72) (3:20) -- Fast lane (Bilal) (4:35) -- Lose the dress (Kevin Tihista) (3:08) -- Endless fall (Chocolate Genius) (3:01) -- Understanding in a car crash (Thursday) (4:24) -- Fome is dape (Little T & One Track Mike) (3:19) -- Captain Easychord (Stereolab) (5:25) -- Hell above high water (Curve)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CMJ 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CMJBrzezinski, Mika.
Summary: Interviews a number of prominent women--including comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, and TV personality Joy Behar--to reveal how ordinary women can achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth in the modern professional world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 650.1 BRZSummary: An American Air Force major on leave in Japan during the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese dancer. When they declare their love openly, they find themselves scorned equally by both the Japanese and Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAYSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYMika
Summary: Singer-songwriter Mika is back with his fifth studio album. It includes the singles Tiny Love, which was featured on Billboard.com, and Ice Cream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIKSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2022
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCRMikel
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light IN The Attic 2020