Summary: Season Four finds the Gallaghers braving another brutal Chicago winter and waiting on the medical fate of their permanently pickled patriarch Frank. With oldest daughter Fiona in a stable job and relationship, and newly graduated Lip enrolled in college, it seems like the Gallaghers might finally have a shot at the middle class American dream. But when you're down and out, moving up isn't so easy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Macy, William H.

Summary: Follows the lives of the Gallagher family, six children who live with their alcoholic father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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Summary: Season five finds the Gallaghers dealing with both the upside and downside of personal and urban renewal as Frank, Fiona, Lip and their family and friends band together to fight the invading hipster hordes and real estate speculators in their beloved South Side. But, as the neighborhood changes, the Gallaghers begin to reconcile their chaotic past in the hopes of building a better future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Spring roars like a lion in season three! Frank's latest schemes range from gigs as a drug mule and gay rights spokesperson to calling Child Services on his own kids. While Fiona finally finds relative stability in the corporate world, househusband Jimmy develops a full-blown midlife crisis. Lip does his best to handle an out-of-control love triangle, and Ian struggles with Mickey's impending...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013

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Summary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: The Gallaghers have always scraped by, but Season Seven finds them finally getting a leg up. When Frank awakens from a coma to learn that his family tossed him in the river, he declares war, Gallagher vs. Gallagher.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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Pronzini, Bill

Summary: Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016

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Pronzini, Bill.

Summary: The "nameless detective" takes on a divorce case, but their is something mysterious about the "other woman."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1993

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Pronzini, Bill.

Summary: The nameless detective investigates the brutal psychological torture and manipulation of a young woman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1992

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Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Summary: The saga of two kingdoms, divided by bitter history and present-day suspicions, one armed with devastating power and the other determined to overcome it, no matter what the price. Can love and resourcefulness overcome even the overwhelming power of a Thunderlord? A follow-up to The Ages of Chaos omnibus, Thunderlord is a brand-new novel of the genre-bending Darkover universe, expanded by Marion...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2016

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Hanamori, Pinku.

Summary: Lucia and her sister run a public bath that's all the rage, but they have a secret. They are mermaid princesses living among humans to search for Lucia's pearl that she lost years earlier. Without it, she can't sing and save the seas from an evil force bent on taking control of the marine world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Ray/Ballantine Books, c2006-<c2007> 2006

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West, Tracey

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007

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Hicks, Faith Erin

Summary: Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2016

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Hicks, Faith Erin

Summary: "Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political solution for the disputed territory of the City itself. To complicate things further, Kaidu is fairly certain he's stumbled on a formula for the lost weapon of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017

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Pronzini, Bill

Summary: Nameless handles two investigations that challenge his agency's resources, including a woman who yearns to learn more about her late husband's potential secret love life and the case of an agoraphobic who has gone missing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017

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Pronzini, Bill.

Summary: An investigation of a former lover leads Tamara to a charity-targeting scam, while Nameless's assistance of an elderly woman reveals ugly family agendas and Runyon's search for a bail jumper leads him to make a wrenching choice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010

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Kleypas, Lisa.

Summary: Paid companion Catherine Marks is attracted to her employers' older brother, Leo Hathaway, despite their constant bickering, so she agrees to a marriage of convenience with him, but the secret she is hiding threatens them both.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2010

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Somper, Justin.

Summary: When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters led by Captain Cheng Li and pirate prodigy Connor Tempest. Meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother and learns some important and shocking news that will leave the twins facing a very uncertain future.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown 2008

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Sparkes, Ali.

Summary: During an unwelcome visit, neighbor Tarquin unwittingly uses SWITCH spray to turn twins Josh and Danny into ants, then sets out with a magnifying glass to fry some bugs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2013

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