Paul, Chris

Summary: "The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel "Papa" Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PAUL PAU

Summary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLO

Summary: The powerful crime drama featuring some of television's favorite characters continues for another gripping season of cases as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAJ

Summary: A hilarious comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Max, a terrier, has his favorite-pet status turned upside-down when his owner takes in a stray named Duke.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PG

Akunin, B. (Boris)

Summary: It is 1877 and Erast Fandorin must locate a spy within the Russian army ranks who threatens to change the course of the war.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AKU

Brown, Dan

Summary: He saved the Catholic Church from a fundamentalist radical in Angels & Demons and exposed the world's greatest cover-up in The Da Vinci Code. Now, symbologist and Harvard professor Robert Langdon returns to uncover another mystery. Called to Washington D.C., Langdon must investigate the centuries-old secrets of the Freemasons. However, with treachery around every corner, will Langdon's eidetic...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009

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Brown, Dan

Summary: In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRO

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRO

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Brown 2017

Reich, Christopher

Summary: In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan, Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010

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Summary: Mr. Smith is not the best idea for looking after a child, yet after stumbling upon a blazing shoot-out, helping to birth a child amidst a hail of gunfire, and seeing the mother die before his eyes, he becomes determined to protect the young innocent at all costs. His adversaries are equally determined, and they will not stop until the newborn is dead. Now, in order to ensure that maniacal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHO

Summary: The series returns with more mysteries in season five as the squad must solve some of the most challenging homicides in America₂s second largest city. From searching for a missing teenage girl who vanished while helping the homeless, hunting down the killer of a potentially dirty cop, or following up on a beheading in an isolated corner of Los Angeles, the investigators attempt to return...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAJ

Summary: As Major Crimes enters its third season, Captain Sharon Raydor continues to lead her elite team of investigators in pursuit of L.A.'s most dangerous criminal offenders and make tough, provocative deals to ensure these perpetrators do the hard time they deserve. Plus, her unpredictable, estranged husband Jack reappears, and her pending adoption of Rusty brings up difficult issues. The squad...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Brown, Dan

Summary: Cryptographer Susan Fletcher finds herself fighting for her country, her life, and the life of the man she loves when she is called in by the National Security Agency to decipher a mysterious code and discovers a plot that has the power to cripple U.S. intelligence.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2004

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Brown, Dan

Summary: After an event at which futurist Edmond Kirsch is to announce a groundbreaking discovery erupts into chaos, Robert Langdon rushes to Barcelona to locate a cryptic password that will reveal Kirsch's secret before it is lost forever.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BRO

Millard, Candice

Summary: "For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the nineteenth century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe--and extend their colonial empires. Two British men--Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke--were sent by the Royal...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 916.204 MIL

Millard, Candice.

Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 Mil

Reich, Christopher.

Summary: Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, wife is killed while they are climbing the Swiss Alps. Twenty-four hours later he receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. When he goes to claim the baggage he is attacked by the Swiss police, thus beginning his search for the truth and his being the subject of an...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

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Shaara, Jeff

Summary: It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012

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Summary: As the second season opens, the team immediately dives into some of the most challenging and fascinating crimes yet, including the murder of a big-time film producer's wife, an apparent murder-suicide, and a high-speed car chase that leads to a triple homicide. Just as the squad seems to be adjusting to last year's leadership change, Deputy D.A. Emma Rios arrives to challenge Raydor's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAJ

Summary: The detectives in the LAPD's major crimes division are still reeling from the departure of Brenda Leigh Johnson and the realization that Captain Raydor is now in charge. Unlike Brenda, Raydor is determined to lead them with a more team-oriented approach, sharing the credit with the people with whom she works. Raydor's hardest job will be gaining the trust and confidence of her detectives, who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAJ

Summary: Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free Bishop from his Chinese captors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPY

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Spy 2002

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SPY

Summary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLO

Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, twin brothers are accidentally separated at birth. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. When both men decide to run for governor, they learn the truth about their kinship-- and must face its tragic consequences.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARC