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Summary: A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlywheelSummary: Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: "A dazzling, sophisticated thriller set in the world of global finance follows the fortunes of charismatic and nerveless trader Massimo Ruggero, who looks set for promotion to the big leagues at NYL bank after a string of stunning successes. But when a scandal breaks involving his ex-wife, Massimo's CEO and mentor Dominic Morgan passes over him in favor of a fierce rival. Things go from bad to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEVMaddow, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Maddow offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea, exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 338.2 MADNational Automobile Dealers Association
Summary: The J.D. Power/N.A.D.A. Official Older Used Car Guide continues to be the automotive industry's primary source for determining the value of used cars, trucks, SUV's and minivans. It's used by more car dealers, insurance agents, bankers and government agencies than any other guide. Published four times annually since 1992, the Consumer Edition of the N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Guide contains the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: N.A.D.A. Appraisal Guides 1980
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2 available in Reference, Call number: 2023-09/12Call number: 2024-01/04
Summary: When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious children's academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Daddy 2003Summary: Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY USELochery, Neill
Summary: "When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 CAMFrerick, Austin
Summary: "Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 3-time winner of the Male Model of the Year, Derek, loses out the fourth time to rival, Hansen. Now the ridiculously good-looking supermodel, with the help of a women reporter, must save the world from an evil clothes manufacture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZOOSorvino, Chloe
Summary: "A shocking and engrossing exposé of the US meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food by the head of Forbes's Food, Drink, and Agriculture division, Chloe Sorvino"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 SORBarr, John
Summary: "From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 BARSummary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Ianelli, Liz
Summary: "There was a huge public outpouring to the recent articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni-including many by suicide-and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece this January covered the shocking facts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IANELLI, LIZ IANLansdale, Joe R.
Summary: From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the belief that "buyers better beware." Burdened by an aging, alcoholic mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANHart, Matt
Summary: "Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program-the Nike Oregon Project. In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single file-a 4.7-megabyte PDF named "Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . ." He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 HARMason, Christopher
Summary: Journeys inside the scandal that rocked the art auction world, describing how Alfred Taubman, Diana Brooks, and Christopher Davidge conspired to cheat clients, while describing the operations of Sotheby's and Christie's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 MASJones, Noah (Noah Z.)
Summary: In the Land of Fake-Believe the Three Little Pugs' used car business has sold Scaredy-Pants Wolf a lemon (literally) instead of a delivery van, so Princess Pink gets an opportunity to use her karate moves to get Wolf's money back--and set the Pugs on the straight-and-narrow path to business success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the tales that transformed John Reid, a prosecutor, into a Texas ranger and a legend of justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GREGrant, Andrew
Summary: "For fans of Harlan Coben's Tell No One and Joseph Finder's Paranoia--a high-octane thriller featuring a tech consultant who unwittingly steps into the rabbit hole of corporate cover-ups--and finds that his highly demanding job has suddenly become highly dangerous. From Andrew Grant, the critically acclaimed author hailed by Nelson DeMille as "a little bit of le Carre and Ian Fleming, but with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014