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861) Tales of the city
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
863) The liars
Author
Series
Seaside saga volume 20
Publisher
Joanne DeMaio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Behind every cottage door is a liar. Look past the tended lawns and screened windows open to the sea breeze and dusky porch lights shining on waning summer nights. And listen closely. Are those whispers of swaying marsh grasses? Or hushed secrets floating in the salt air? Walking the sandy roads, it's hard to tell. There. There's the imposing Barlow cottage on the bluff. Elsa's shingled inn by the sea. The Fenwicks' last-standing cottage...
865) Scooby-Doo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery, Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his crime-solving cohorts are individually summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a series of paranormal incidents at the ultra-hip spring break hot spot. Concerned his park might truly be haunted, the owner tries to reunite those notoriously meddling detectives to sovle the mystery before his supernatural secret scares away the college crowd.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Research medium Allison Dubois is a young wife and mother who uses her visions to help the Phoenix District Attorney's office. Other forces threaten her husband Joe and oldest daughters Ariel and Bridgette. She can not refuse to listen to the dead when they call out to her in her dreams.
867) The listening house
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Down-and-out in the Great Depression, Gwynne Dacres moves into a seedy-and-sinister boardinghouse, where she exposes deadly secrets in this classic mystery by Mabel Seeley. After losing her copywriting job, young Gwynne Dacres seeks a place to live when she stumbles upon Mrs. Garr's old boardinghouse. Despite the gruff landlady and an assortment of shifty tenants, Gwynne rents a room for herself. She spends her first few nights at 593 Trent Street...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Warehouse 13 may be closing its doors but our team is going out with a bang as they tackle earth-shattering missions with supernatural artifacts, wild paranormal activity and history-changing time travel. But whatever the future holds for the team, one thing is certain: they'll always be family.
869) Deep is the Fen
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Get lost in the newest fantasy from the author of A Hunger of Thorns, on a beguiling journey behind the closed doors of a sinister secret society. Featuring a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance and a fight for the witching world that will get your heart racing. Merry doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is. Simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Showcases that wascally wabbit, Bugs Bunny. Disc 2 and Disc 3: The happiness of pursuit is center stage as the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner go head to head and Sylvester and Tweety Bird go after each other in typical Looney fun. Disc 4: is an all-star cavalcade of Hollywood parodies and more fabulously funny favorites.
871) Capital
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story is about the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters linked to a neighborhood street. One day, the street's residents all receive an anonymous postcard through their front doors bearing a simple message: "We want what you have." Who is behind the anonymous hate campaign? And what do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, interweaving stories reveal lives filled with love and loss, fear and greed, fortune and envy,...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tony Scali is a tough yet compassionate small-town police commissioner, juggling the grim realities of police work with the laid-back sensibilities of his close-knit community. As dedicated to his family as he is to his work, Scali's intelligence, intensity, humor and quirky charm make him a one-of-a-kind cop.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John Ehrlichman. Expecting to discuss the most recent drug control...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful introduction to forced disappearances for readers 10 and up. By a closed door, a child waits for his uncle, who is coming to stay. As he waits, he imagines all the fun things they'll do when he arrives: his uncle can teach him how to block a penalty shot and the boy can show him how well he is doing in school. But his uncle never arrives. Page by page, the boy grows older sitting in the same position, waiting to show his uncle his degree,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Enter the world of Family Guy as never before with this outrageous collection of twenty episodes, in which viewers are taken way too far behind the scenes. Stewie and Brian run a bed-and-breakfast brothel, Peter gets into a sackful of trouble as a mall Santa, and the cast takes a novel approach to reenacting American literary classics.
876) Jericho
Publisher
[Place of publisher not identifited]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Annie Quaintain is a widowed mother of two who is forced to start a new life in the remote town of Jericho in rugged 1870s Yorkshire. To make ends meet, she takes in lodgers who work on the local railroad. When handsome worker Johnny Jackson shows up at her door, he brings with him a load of trouble that could threaten Annie's new life.
877) The Oranges
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After breaking up with her fiancé, Nina returns home and starts an adulterous affair with long-time family friend, and neighbor, David.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Hired by the world's leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year overseas, closely observing people in their homes. His goal: to uncover their hidden desires and turn them into breakthrough products for the world's leading brands. In a world besotted by the power of Big Data, he works like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, accumulating small clues to help solve a stunningly diverse array of challenges....
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A group of ragtag, brave rebels watch with horror while the Empire increases its control of the galaxy. The rebels must band together to resist the Empire's vicious plan to hunt down and wipe out the last of the Jedi Knights. Follow the adventures and tribulations of scrappy rebels as they use their wits and ingenuity to outwit the far more powerful Empire.
880) Face her fear
Author
Series
(Lisa L.).Detective Josie Quinn thriller volume 19
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Blood roars in Josie's ears as they circle the tree in the deep snow. A woman lies still on the freezing ground. The howling wind lifts the last of the snow clinging to her face, exposing her lovely features, frozen in forever sleep. Detective Josie Quinn is still recovering from the killing of a beloved member of her team when she and her husband Noah receive yet more devastating news. Close to her breaking point, Josie heads to a specialist trauma...