Summary: When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For their summer vacation, twelve-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel Pines travel to the fictitious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon to spend the summer with their Great Uncle Stan Pines (often shortened to Grunkle Stan), who runs a tourist trap called the 'Mystery Shack'. Things are not what they seem in this small town, and with the help of a mysterious journal that Dipper finds in the forest, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRAScattergood, Augusta.
Summary: Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCAWillink, Jocko
Summary: Marc hopes that his Uncle Jake can help him turn around his terrible summer, which he has to spend at camp with Nathan James, who is mean and annoying, while longing for a fancy new bike his parents will not buy him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series WillinkCoulson, Art
Summary: As part of his thirteenth birthday Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his Cherokee family's lakeside home; one day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous and as the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COULeonard, M. G. (Maya Gabrielle)
Summary: Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEOMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: It is the first snow of the season, and Tío Alex comes over to play with the twins, and cook them a special secret surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDSummary: This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoReagan, Jean
Summary: "New hiking boots call for a hiking adventure! Pack your backpack with snacks, water, and a map, and join an uncle and his nephew as they head out for their trip, but this time, the kids lead the way!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN REAWillink, Jocko
Summary: Marc makes a new friend in the neighborhood who also wants to be a Warrior Kid, so he looks to Uncle Jake for help in creating lessons in "How to Be a Warrior Kid."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jocko Publishing in association with Di Angelo Publications 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILSummary: A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CMODoig, Ivan.
Summary: Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOISummary: About a funny, feisty, compassionate man who is very determined to have nothing to do with the lemming-like rush-hour world. But his resolve is tested when social workers Sandra and Albert tell him that he must shape up, or his twelve-year-old nephew Nick will be shipped out to a foster home. Released when workday lifestyles went largely unchallenged, this inventive comedy-drama gleefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THOSummary: "In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Bros. 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY UNSDoig, Ivan.
Summary: "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DOISummary: The story of the life of the young lion Simba and the inhabitants of the Pridelands during the reign of his father Mufasa, the Lion King, as well as his successor and younger brother, Scar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: Blu3D DVD Fam LionSummary: Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MANSummary: "Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker ... meets Charlie ..., her charismatic uncle, whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with India and her unstable mother..., both are drawn to his charming and calming demeanor. But it soon becomes clear that Charlie's arrival was no coincidence, and that the shocking secrets of his past could affect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STOSummary: Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNCPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "Max and a group of friends dubbed the Midknights go on a quest to rescue the Kingdom of Byjovia from the mean King Gastley!"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PEIWillink, Jocko
Summary: With seventh grade finishing up, Marc begins to plan for his Navy SEAL Uncle Jake's summer visit, including how Uncle Jake could help Marc in relating to fellow student Danny Rhinehart, who seems to be better than Marc at everything and a nice person on top of that.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jocko Publishing in association with Di Angelo Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series WillinkSummary: When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his Australian hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AFTSummary: An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Studios 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Manchester 2017Hautman, Pete
Summary: In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014