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"The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who'd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance--but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide,...
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New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who'd hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two--but they'd been equally desperate. Unfortunately, they didn't...
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"After a music festival comes to the quiet town of Mayville Heights, librarian Kathleen Paulson and her inquisitive cats find themselves in a jam when a musician turns up dead. It is summer in Mayville Heights, and Kathleen Paulson and her detective boyfriend, Marcus, are eager to attend the closing concert of the local music festival. The concert is a success, although one of the band members is discovered dead shortly after it. At first it is assumed...
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In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
5) Dust to dust
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An Internal Affairs officer is dead of an apparent suicide, but detective Sam Kovac is sure the death is a result of foul play.
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
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LinDon NW Productions
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c2004
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Part I: Don McCune looks at the changes in the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest as exemplified by Weyerhauser's Camp Vail near Tenino, Washington and Mount Rainier. Includes photos and 1930's Weyerhaueser motion picture film of early steam logging, highlighting the importance of the railroad in the logging industry, and interviews of some veteran loggers.
Part II: Nostalgic flashback to the days when high-riggers ruled the big forests,...
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Simon & Schuster
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2009
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xiii, 317 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with the star just months before her death in 1980, as well as interviews with people who worked or lived with her. Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West created a scandal--and a sensation--on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity, she went in a convict and emerged a star. Her next play, Diamond Lil, was...
9) Smash cut
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The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder -- even before he's charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more...
10) Beethoven's skull: dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
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Beethoven's Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include:
A cursed song that kills those who hear it
A composer who lovingly cradles the head of Beethoven's...
11) Death's requiem
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DCI Harry Grimm volume 6
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Weirdstone Publishing
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[2020]
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287 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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A famous singer. Homicide by hanging. Can this investigator stop an encore performance of murder? With the body discovered gruesomely suspended from a church tower, DCI Grimm and his cops are confronted by walls daubed in satanic symbols. But as he digs deep to uncover the connection between the occult and the sensational slaying, he fears the killer may be about to make more bloody sacrifices. Can the gruff detective solve the senseless crime before...
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The hanging death of an old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing much, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug and...
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CBS
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[2021]
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5 videodiscs (761 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This reimagining of the long-running series Walker, Texas Ranger, stars Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker, a widower and father with his own moral code. Upon returning home to Austin, Texas after being undercover for nearly a year, he discovers there₂s harder work to be done at home as he attempts to reconnect with his creative and thoughtful son, August and his headstrong, somewhat rebellious teenaged daughter, Stella. At work, Walker₂s former...
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A&E Home Video
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[2006]
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8 videodiscs (ca. 1,496 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson before them, the brilliant but curmudgeonly Nero Wolfe and his streetwise sidekick Archie Goodwin are crime's greatest nemeses. With Nero preferring to solve crimes at home amid his orchid collection, it is Archie who does the legwork about town to allow Wolfe to unravel the most confounding crimes. Together the duo cracks cases of murder, deception, blackmail, and more, resulting in an unforgettable confection of mystery,...
16) Aging in America
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Reference shelf volume 86, no. 1
Pub. Date
2014
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xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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This volume examines the great challenges America will face in caring for aging baby boomers. The collection begins with statistical data on the major health issues for boomers, the demographics of the population, and the availability of health care in the future. How to negotiate rising medical costs and a growing population of seniors is one of the greatest challenges, the topic of the following chapter. The challenges and opportunities for families...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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©2008
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xlvi, 1,182 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Unprecedented in scope and depth, this tour de force collection of works by French-speaking women poets contains over 600 poems from 54 different pens, from the twelfth century Marie de France through Albertine Sarrazin, who died in 1967. Through artful, careful translations that remain true to the authors' voices, style, and artistic integrity, Norman R. Shapiro provides a very particular window into the development and evolution of French poetry...
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