Summary: Television series of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to keep both the streets safe and their self-interests intact. In this season, after scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team plays it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHISummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the leader of an elite crime fighting unit, detective Vic Mackey has his own set of rules that create tension between his team and his boss.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHISummary: While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY QUESummary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINMartínez, Guillermo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MARSummary: A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from bing taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANIMartínez, Rueben
Summary: A collection of seven traditional tales from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain retold in English and Spanish. Includes notes about each story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MARMartínez, Pedro
Summary: From the 8-time All Star and 3-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher, a bold, no-holds-barred memoir of his career, from his hardscrabble upbringing in the Dominican Republic to becoming one of the greatest pitchers of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTINEZ, PEDRO MARMartínez, Rick
Summary: "An enticing, regional, and stunning exploration of Mexican cuisine from beloved food writer and host of Food52's "Sweet Heat" series, Rick Martinez. In his first, much-anticipated cookbook, New York Times contributor, Food52 columnist, and former Bon Appétit food editor Rick Martinez introduces home cooks to the diverse culinary treasures of Mexico. In Mi Cocina, Rick travels to each of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 MARMartinez, Estefanita.
Summary: Pictures tell a traditional trickster tale in which a rabbit outsmarts Coyote, who is out to trap him. Includes text and suggestions for storytelling activities in the back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 NAUMartinez, Melanie
Summary: Melanie Martinez wants to tell a story. It's fictional, but it's also about her, in a way that's somewhat exaggerated and darker than reality. The tale traces through her debut, a collection of pop songs that draw inspiration from singer-songwriter folk and hip-hop and follow a character who learns to be more comfortable with who she is. The journey of the character mirrors the musician's own.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: When an Argentine math student discovers the smothered body of his landlady, conventional wisdom points to a family member with the most prosaic of motives. But then renowned logician Arthur Seldom, author of a book on the mathematics of serial killers, tells of a strange note left in his mailbox. The note indicates that the murder is the first in a series linked by a mysterious pattern. Each...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MAREisler, Benita.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 EISEisler, Benita.
Summary: Highlights the life and work of the American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in images of Native Americans and who advocated for them before ultimately exploiting them in a live show that brought tragedy to both the artist and his performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATLIN, GEORGE EISMartines, Lauro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 MARMartinet, Jeanne
Summary: Parodies the romance comics of the 1940s to the 1970s and offers irreverent dating attitudes and romantic advice, updating ten DC Comics romance stories with new word balloons and captions to accompany the original artwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARMartínez, Ernesto Javier
Summary: A reclamation of the Mexican serenata tradition, follow the story of a young boy who asks his father if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reflection Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMartínez, Tomás Eloy.
Summary: Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMartinez, Juan
Summary: "Praise for Juan Martinez: "A little out of the ordinary.... He takes this very unnatural environment and changes it into a landscape."-Hannah Tinti "I loved it."- Etgar Keret These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than ex-pected. There's humor, but it's going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMartínez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: An introduction to the Mexican jumping bean explains how the seed pod acts as shelter and food for a caterpillar until it emerges as a moth, and encourages readers to count from one to ten and practice Spanish vocabulary as they follow its course.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARTenino, Anne.
Summary: "Lucas Wilder's best friend is a traitor. First, Audrey moved back to their hick-infested hometown, Bluewater Bay, and now she's marrying a local. His own brother, in fact. And as her man of honor, Lucas gets coerced into returning for an extended stay. Although, between his unfaithful ex-boyfriend and his artist's block, going home isn't the worst thing that could happen. Even if the best man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riptide Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TENBen-Dor Benite, Zvi.
Summary: The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was "lost" and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In this fascinating book, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BENBenitez, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 1993