Wessel, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESSummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARMWessel, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESNesser, Håkan
Summary: Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESWeisel, Frederick
Summary: "A middle school teacher leaves home one morning and never arrives at his job. He leaves behind his briefcase and his phone, along with photographs of some of his female students. Across town, a detective on Santa Rosa's Violent Crimes Investigations team joins a colleague from the narcotics division as they investigate the killing of a dealer and local heroin smuggling operation. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIKessel, John
Summary: "Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful. "₇Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times Pride and Prejudice Threatened with destruction unless he fashions a wife for his Creature, Victor Frankenstein travels to England where he meets Mary and Kitty Bennet, the remaining unmarried sisters of the Bennet family from Pride and Prejudice Meanwhile, the awkward Mary hopes that Victor will save her from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESNesser, Håkan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESVestal, Shawn.
Summary: Nine stories illuminate what it means to be Mormon and how faith serves to humanize, in a work that includes a seriocomic portrait of a young Joseph Smith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VESGeisel, Theodore
Summary: The Lorax is a lovable creature who speaks for the trees, trying to stop the profit-greedy Once-ler from destroying the forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRMesser, Claire.
Summary: "Have you ever had a grumpy day and not known why? Penguin is having a grumpy day like that. No matter what he does, he just can't shake it! Sometimes the only thing left to do is wash the grumpy day away and start over"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESNesser, Håkan
Summary: The untimely murder of a lottery-winning retiree, whose case was initially closed by the quiet confession of his wife, baffles Detective Münster when a neighbor goes missing and contradictory evidence emerges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESStamper, Vesper
Summary: In 1961 Berlin, twins Rudi, a photographer, and Peter, an actor, live in different sectors of a divided Berlin after the sudden divorce of their parents, where they are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC STAVestal, Shawn
Summary: Caught dating a boy of another faith by her devout Mormon parents, 1970s teenager Loretta is married off to a fundamentalist as his second wife and runs away with his nephew and a part-Native American friend to search for a cache of gold and freedom outside their strict community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016