Summary: A retired safecracker thought his criminal past was behind him for good, but when his witless son-in-law fails to repay a ruthless loan shark, violent threats force him to take on one last job to protect his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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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: The Third Doctor and Jo Grant face the combined might of the Daleks and Master in two classic 1973 adventures. Frontier in Space - (6 eps.) In the year 2450 the Doctor is arrested as a spy as the fragile peace between Earth and Draconia is threatened. Planet of the Daleks - (6 eps.) The TARDIS arrives on the inhospitable planet of Spiridon, which is hiding a terrible secret about the Doctor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the 1890's, the story of a lesbian love affair between a music hall male impersonator and a young woman smitten by the music hall life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TIPMassey, Malcom
Summary: The publication of George Orwell's "1984" forever changed our view of the future. With Orwellian events looming above our world like thunderclouds on the horizon, take time to learn one account of what happened in the eventful year preceding this classic dystopian novel, before it's too late.This original prequel to "1984" will shake you to your very core. The events that bridged the chasm from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Independently published] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASHansen, Malcolm.
Summary: "The Secret Life of Bees meets Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle in this bold debut novel, set between the deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early 70s, following a biracial teenage boy whose new life in a big city is disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point. It's 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M MACStorms, Guy
Summary: Invites readers to imagine being the moon as it shines to guide a journey home, glistens beautifully on icy snow, and wishes peace and safety for travelers, friends, and troubled hearts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Brooks, Malcolm
Summary: "In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother.His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROStorey, Erik
Summary: Survivalist adventurer and soldier of fortune Clyde Barr, recently released from an unjust prison term, uses his lethal skills to rescue his abducted sister from a meth kingpin who would control the drug trade throughout the Western United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStorti, Kara
Summary: "Finn is a gentle, tortured dealer and addict whose life is slipping away. When he finds an almost magical drug called Indigo, he thinks it will let him break free, but he's dead wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOKristjansson, Snorri
Summary: Pausing at the Viking town of Stenvik, Ulfar Thormodsson is forced to confront a band of deadly men at the same time King Olav's march on Stenvik is met by a host of raiders under the leadership of a mysterious woman from the north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jo Fletcher 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRILowry, Malcolm
Summary: Alcoholic consul Geoffrey Firmin's life changes over the course of one day when his wife Yvonne arrives in Mexico on a mission to save him and their failing marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWMacdonald, Malcolm
Summary: John Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident brings young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill and rescue it from catastrophe. Together with their friends the Thorntons-who are troubled by a marriage mismatched in passion-they are willing to risk any dare, commit themselves to any act of cunning on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "Martin Sivok is in trouble. Tied to a chair, plastic strips biting his wrists, inside a deserted warehouse...There are only so many ways this scenario can end, most of them badly. For now his best hope is figuring out who put him here--and staying conscious long enough to confront them"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mackay 2016Mackay, Malcolm
Summary: "How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But with his health failing him, how long before he's no longer of use to his employers? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. And up-and-coming hitman Calum MacLean will be called upon to pick up the pieces. Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "Oliver Peterkinney and Alex Glass, two friends from Glasgow's desperate fringes, become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades: debt collection. While one rises quickly through the ranks, the other falls prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle, accumulating steep debts of his own. Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business--Marty Jones, ruthless pimp;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mackay 2016Mackay, Malcolm
Summary: "It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a police informant. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A hit man who has finally had enough of killing. Calum plans an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most. Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation. The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACShealy, Malcolm
Summary: Learning to count has never been more fun as adorable Funko Pop! versions of Michael, Dwight, Pam and other loveable oddball characters from The Office go from one to ten in their first ever Little Golden Book!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MALPeters, Torrey
Summary: "[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."-- Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC PET1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET
Torrey, Richard
Summary: When Ally roars off to her first day at school, she hopes she'll meet lots of other dinosaur-mad kids in class. Instead, she's the only one chomping her food with fierce dino teeth and drawing dinosaurs on her nameplate. Even worse, a group of would-be "princesses" snubs her! Will Ally ever make new friends? With its humorous art, appealing heroine, and surprise ending, this fun picture book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TORJudge, Malcolm
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jonny Jakes is an undercover reporter for a banned school newspaper, The Woodford Word, and right now he has the story of a lifetime--the new principal is an alien (he does not even try and hide it), Jonny is sure he is planning something nefarious, and it is up to the Word's star (really the only) reporter to find out what it is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016