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921) Vera: season 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
922) Prime suspect: 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 184 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Nick and June were best friends for years, until their relationship suddenly turned into something more. Now, June is coping with a new diagnosis of schizophrenia, a secret she asked Nick to keep for too long. Between managing her symptoms and her parents, June is just trying to keep it together. Nick is a reluctant car thief, supporting his aunt with the money and focusing on his art whenever he can. But when June's condition sends her to the hospital...
924) Last looks: a novel
Author
Series
Charlie Waldo novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Description
There are run-of-the-mill eccentric Californians, and then there's former detective Charlie Waldo. Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions. He has left behind his career and his girlfriend, Lorena, to pay self-imposed penance for an awful misstep on an old murder case. But the old ghosts are about to come roaring back. There are plenty of difficult...
925) The man with no face
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A classic early novel from Peter May situated among the political intrigue of Brussels, Belgium, in 1979--now available in the United States"--
926) Spider-man 2
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent, or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry and his beloved Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever. Peter begins to notice that he's losing some of his powers and wonders if the cost of being a superhero isn't too high. Meanwhile Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, has turned into a maniacal...
927) Emma G. Wildford
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Journey back in time to the roaring twenties, and across England and Lapland, to experience the charming and thrilling adventure of Emma G. Wildford, a tale that mixes mystery, grand adventure, and love. It's been fourteen months since Emma G. Wildford's fiancé, Roald Hodges, a member of the National Geographic Society, boarded the good ship Kinship and set sail for Norway...and she has had no news of him since. Every day, she questions the other...
928) Breaking in
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 29 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her children and defeat the villains.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
To everyone she meets, Morgan Kemper comes across as sweet, pretty, and put together. But for over a year she's shoplifted countless pieces of clothing and makeup. When she's caught and sentenced to thirty hours of community service, the image Morgan has carefully constructed starts to crumble. Morgan is determined to complete her punishment without her friends discovering the truth. Then she meets Eli, the nephew of the owner of the charity shop...
930) Motherless Brooklyn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God, but how can he do that now?
932) Dark winds: season 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (261 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
"Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum's storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years before. His misspelled name is etched on the crown, but the many bones in boxes around him remain unidentified. Who was Yokununna, and how did he die? His story reveals the layered, exploitative white Australian mindset that has long rendered Aboriginal reality all but invisible. When policeman Bill McKinnon's...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stock broker, who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
936) Last words
Author
Series
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 156 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, this musical tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
938) Compulsion
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chicago, 1924. Two young men, one bossy and intimidating, the other sensitive and introverted, thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off "The perfect crime." The result is a sensational case with defense attorney Jonathan Wilk putting capital punishment itself on trial.
939) Sleepless
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs thrives in the high-stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground of Las Vegas. But when a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.
940) Basic instinct
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the body of a washed-up rocker is found riddled with puncture wounds, his arms tied to his bed, suspicion immediately falls on his frequent sexual partner Catherine Tramell. In the wealthy, sexually aggressive mystery writer's most recent novel, a rock star is murdered in precisely the same way. Is the book a perfect alibi, or is she pulling a double-reverse bluff? San Francisco homicide detective Nick Curran has a violent past, an addictive...
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