Summary: Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bingham, Harry
Summary: When DC Fiona Griffiths says 'yes' to her policeman boyfriend, it's an affirmation that she wants finally to put her psychological breakdown behind her. But she still can't resist the challenge of an undercover policing course, and finding it remarkably easy to assume a new identity, she comes top of the class. So when an ingenious payroll fraud starts to look like the tip of a huge criminal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sheep Street Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINJames, Erica
Summary: Angel Sands is an old fashioned seaside resort of bed and breakfasts, cottages to let and teashops. And with the best views of the tiny beach is Paradise House, home to the Baxter girls. With their mother taking time out to find herself, it's down to them to maintain the smooth running of the family-owned bed and breakfast. Not an easy task given that their father -- now that his wife isn't...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMGrenville, Kate
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Riggs, Ransom.
Summary: A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIGDavies, Peter Ho
Summary: At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German POW, who questions what he has been fighting for.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DavMohamed, Nadifa
Summary: "Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death. In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOHFox, Candice
Summary: Most homicide detective teams run on trust, loyalty, and the shared desire to put killers behind bars. Frank Bennett's partner, Eden Archer, thrives on darkness and danger. She has a rare talent for catching killers - but her idea of justice has little to do with courtrooms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1831, young Irishman Charles Adare arrives in New South Wales, Australia, eager to make his fortune, and make it fast. But what he finds are secrets that won't stay buried. Adare is swept into the private world of wealthy land baron Samson Flusky and his mentally unbalanced wife, Lady Henrietta. As Adare attempts to help this haunted woman, greed, jealousy, and a secret passion threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNDMackintosh, Clare
Summary: "Tucked into the mountains of North Wales, the village of Cwm Coed is bordered by a shimmering lake on one side and an army of pine trees on the other. But the tranquility is shattered when homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd returns to develop a luxury resort on the shore opposite the village. Old resentments begin to rise to the surface, and new tensions emerge between the locals and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MACLotz, Sarah
Summary: Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, ex-adrenaline junkie Simon Newman undertakes two life-risking ventures, one in the notorious Cwm Pot caves and another scaling Everest, that force him to test the limits of his morality and wits in order to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLloyd-Jones, Emily
Summary: "Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid 'Mer' is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince's orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC LLOSanderson, Whitney
Summary: In 1939 Wales, a strawberry roan Welsh pony named Lily and her rider Gwen are Pony Club members who enjoy competing in gymkhana games, but the start of World War II brings changes to their routine and a new member to the Pony Club--a prickly girl named Bridget, sent to the country to escape the threat of bombings in London.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Sanderson 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HORSummary: Digitally remastered Doctor Who classic The Green Death Special Edition! When a man is found dead with his skin glowing green in an abandoned mine, it's not long before the Doctor, Jo Grant and UNIT head to Wales to investigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ENGSummary: Detective drama series set in Aberystwyth against the backdrop of mountainous terrain, isolated farms and close-knit villages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HINSummary: DS Gina Jenkins discovers a mutilated body on the beach, setting off a search for a serial killer. With Gina consumed by the investigation, her brother, Sam, returns home from prison and struggles to start a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BANSummary: The third series aired as a five episode serial. The Torchwood team is faced with their fiercest threats to date-- one which throws the future of Torchwood and the entire human race spiraling into danger. They battle against the odds but do they stand a chance of saving mankind?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TORDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: In the Welsh cottage she inherited from schoolteacher Emma Teasdale, Penny Brannigan discovers a package of letters that reveal Emma's lesbian affair with a Liverpool artist who was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNFforde, Jasper.
Summary: "Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOSheers, Owen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEBowen, Rhys.
Summary: Constable Evans investigates when a Pakistani girl vanishes at the same time that she is being forced into an arranged marriage, and a man is shot to death in his home, and Evans discovers an unlikely link between the crimes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWBowen, Rhys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002