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Coben, Harlan

Summary: Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Rivera Garza, Cristina

Summary: "In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RIV

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "In the days immediately following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen people, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman began filming with students and families whose lives were forever altered"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFT

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003

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Abbott, Jeff.

Summary: After finding his mother murdered, documentary filmmaker Evan Casher discovers that every aspect of his life has been fabricated and that he is being targeted by a ruthless organization of killers.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005

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

Muchamore, Robert

Summary: Every CHERUB agent comes from somewhere. Dante Scott still has nightmares about the death of his family, brutally murdered by a biker gang. Dante is given the chance to become a member of CHERUB, a trained professional with one essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. But when Dante joins James and Lauren Adams on a mission to infiltrate Brigands Motorcycle...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUC

Summary: When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boys family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the towns residents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Following a shocking murder, the lives of the police, suspects and victim's family are intricately woven together in this 'spellbinding' (TV Guide) series. This engrossing series has earned huge acclaim, as well as a Golden Globe nomination and multiple Emmy nominations in its first season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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Harvey, Michael T.

Summary: "Boston, 1976. Daniel Fitzsimmons is just sixteen years old and totally on his own--his parents are long dead, and his beloved brother, Harry, is off at Harvard, the star of the football team. When Harry is murdered, Daniel wrestles not only with inconsolable grief but with strange new powers he never knew he possessed. Powers he's not sure he can control. Detectives William Barkley 'Bark'...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Summary: A man killed during a robbery gone wrong remains on Earth as a ghost because of his love for his girlfriend. He teams up with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder, and to rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY GHO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHO

Bohjalian, Christopher A.

Summary: After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice's husband may not have killed himself ... and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Bohjalian, Christopher A.

Summary: After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice's husband may not have killed himself ... and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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

Rice, Luanne

Summary: "A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC RIC

Ervin, Kristine S.

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024

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Hospital, Janette Turner

Summary: When a single father is badgered by a woman who as a child had been on the same hijacked plane where his mother died, his life is transformed into a web of espionage and terrorism, making survival his number-one priority.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOS

Summary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD L

Dornbush, Jennifer

Summary: Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation, and into the path of a killer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC DOR

Greyson, Christopher

Summary: "Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived. No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right--but did she see the killer? As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Greyson 2017

Robb, J. D.

Summary: No affairs, no criminal connections, no DNA and no clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The only survivor is the daugther Nixie, who was in the kitchen when the murders happened.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROB

Viner, P. D.

Summary: Twenty years ago, college student Dani Lancing was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Her killer was never found. Dani's parents, Patty and Jim, were utterly devastated, their marriage destroyed. But when Tom finds an opening in the case, everything changes. Patty's obsessions are lit up once again and she will do anything for revenge, even if it means dragging her whole family back into the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIN

Summary: Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked and raped by a gang of thugs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000

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Summary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009

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

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TEL

Black, Michelle Richmond

Summary: Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.88 BLA

Crigger, C. K.

Summary: "Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home . . . The bank president declares the loan in arrears and informs January the bank is taking everything except the clothes on her back. Devastated by Shay's death,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRI

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