Summary: Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FulSummary: A collection of thirteen original ghost stories, some in rhyme, by Blaise Hemingway and Jesse Reffsin, accompanied by illustrations by Chris Sasaki and Jeff Turley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GHOMcCormick, Mairi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCClement, Blaize.
Summary: Working for a new client, a pain-wracked scientist who is either insane or a genius, Floridian pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of a gate-keeper at her client's mansion; she makes the mistake of leaving the scene of the crime without saying anything to anyone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLEMcCormack, Mike
Summary: "On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCormack, Una
Summary: Revealing brand-new details of his experiences on Vulcan and the Enterprise, Mr. Spock, one of Starfleet's finest officers, uses his own distinctive voice to shed new light on his relationships with the most important figures in his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSummary: Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It's a place that's neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's whimsical masterpiece, ranging from the impossible to the mad to the curiouser, these stories will have you absolutely off your head.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ROBMcCormick, Chris
Summary: "In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful,linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCormick, Patricia
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC McCClement, Blaize.
Summary: "Pet sitter Dixie Hemingway is on the prowl again in the newest installment of Blaize Clement's classic and beloved series of cozy mysteries, now written by her son, John Clement, using Blaize's notes and ideas for future adventures. Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, THE CAT SITTER'S WHISKERS catches up with Dixie as she heads off for work one morning in the dimly lit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: When Mame, the elderly dachshund in Dixie Hemingway's care, gets away from her to investigate a mound of mulch, Dixie isn't surprised. What the dachshund digs up, however, is very surprising. The dead body she uncovers triggers a set of jolting events that puts Dixie at the center of a hunt for a psychopathic killer--a killer who believes Dixie saw him leaving the scene of the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEMcCormack, Mike
Summary: "After a period of imprisonment, Nealon returns to an empty house in the west of Ireland to find his wife and young son missing. Then he gets a call from a man who claims to know what's happened to them--a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting. In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCormack, Una
Summary: "An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series! A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard-widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCClement, Blaize.
Summary: Spotting an exotic bird far from its indigenous habitat, pet sitter Dixie Hemingway uncovers sinister forces behind the bird's displacement before a client is murdered and a new friend goes missing with her baby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Hired by a famous football player to pet-sit his cats, Dixie meets a celebrity fashion model who claims to be the athlete's wife, a situation that culminates in Dixie's discovery of a ring of high-fashion counterfeiters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Tired of becoming involved in homicide investigations, Florida pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway does not report stumbling upon the corpse of a mansion gate-keeper, a resolve that is complicated when someone reports her presence at the scene of the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway never would have guessed taht her trip tot he veterinarian's office would be anything but ordinary. But when she meets a teenage girl named Jaz in the waiting room, the ordinary is turned on its head, and Dixie is led on a wild-goose chase of epic proportions.--From publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEMario, Helaine
Summary: In 1945, an Austrian girl discovers a priceless Nazi treasure near a remote alpine lake and sets in motion a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come. Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O'Shea is preparing her return to the world of music. Instead, a nightmare of a haunting rhapsody and hundreds of roses from a deranged stalker propel her into a world of terror....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPaull, Laline
Summary: "A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts"-- publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUAlpine, Rachele
Summary: "It's career week in Miss Taylor's class! When Lauren says that she wants to be a football announcer, some of her classmates laugh and ask how she could work in a sport she can't even play. Lauren is bummed out, especially since she knows a ton about football. She feels even worse when she wants to play kickball at recess and the boys won't let her join their teams. Instead of backing down,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALPBlauner, Peter
Summary: "In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAPaull, Laline.
Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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McCormick, Dell J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Caxton Printers 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MCCBlauner, Peter.
Summary: In New York, a deranged homeless man stalks a psychiatrist social worker, convinced she is his ex-wife. The doctor's husband, a lawyer, cannot get the police to intervene. An acquaintance offers help in settling the matter themselves and a man is killed. The next the lawyer knows, he is arrested for murder. It was a set up. Now his only hope is the stalker. By the author of Casino Moon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996