Neuhaus, Nele.
Summary: "The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUMankell, Henning
Summary: In the 1870s, Hans Bengler travels to South Africa from Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan, a boy he christens Daniel and takes him to Sweden. Daniel continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds and seemingly entraps him. At the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANNeuhaus, Nele
Summary: Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she receives a phone call. An elderly woman has been shot and killed while walking her dog. A short while later another murder is committed and the modus operandi is eerily similar - a woman is killed by a bullet that smashes through her kitchen window ... and in both cases the same weapon fired the shot. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEULäckberg, Camilla
Summary: When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2003
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Summary: Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANNeuhaus, Nele.
Summary: "On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEULackberg, Camilla
Summary: After she returns to her hometown to learn that her friend, Alex, was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, biographer Erica Falck researches her friend's past in hopes of writing a book and joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACMankell, Henning
Summary: His long-awaited vacation interrupted by two deaths, Inspector Kurt Wallander begins trying to piece together how the brutal murder of a former minister of justice is related to the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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Summary: Templar Knight Arn Magnusson forges a friendship with his enemy, Saladin, and becomes a free man after the Battle of Hattin, but he must face a long a bloody road home if he is ever going to be reunited with his betrothed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUILäckberg, Camilla
Summary: The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACMankell, Henning
Summary: In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2004
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANStearn, William T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.03 STESummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Storm of the century: When a murder shakes the island of Little Tall, the local constable must stop the evil that is growing as quickly as the snowstorm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ISLSummary: When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISLMurray, Michael T.
Summary: The best foods, herbs, supplements aand lifestyle strategies to optimize your diabetes care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 MURC KIng T Stern
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Gems 1971
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. A poignant ode to friendship, this breathless picaresque is performed with panache by an all-star cast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GRACollis, Steven T.
Summary: The story of the heroic actions of chaplains George Fox, Alexander Goode, John Washington, and Clark Poling of the Dorchester and steward's mate Charles W. David Jr. of the Comanche in the aftermath of a German submarine attack during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 COLSeagle, Steven T.
Summary: "In this new edition of the stunning semi-autobiographical graphic novel, acclaimed writer Steven T. Seagle tells one of the most realistic Superman tales ever--without featuring Superman. Steve's given the assignment every writer dreams of: to write Superman. Only he can't relate to a Man of Steel--not when his own fears of death haunt him. Explore the cultural significance of a comic book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017