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101) Murder in Spokane
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
viii, 372 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Once again, Mark Fuhrman shows the tragedy of an inexperienced police force. In this brilliant police procedural, Mark Fuhrman investigates the deaths of Spokane prostitutes as the police department does the same.
Author
Series
Brands from the burning volume Book 1
Publisher
Mountain Brook Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1942. Pilot Dave Delham sees his Japanese bombing mission as an act of heroism. But his naive view turns grim when he's caught and endures years of imprisonment at the hands of cruel captors. Despairing that he'll survive, Dave vows if he escapes, he'll answer God's calling. Osaka, Japan, 1948. Miyako Matsuura longs to restore her family's shattered honor. After watching her little brother die in a horrific American air raid, she's been reduced to...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
During the 1990s, three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton was the darling of American track and field. An outstanding runner, a major sports apparel spokesperson, and a happily married wife, she was the model for an active, healthy, and wholesome life. But her perfect facade masked a dark truth: manic depression and bipolar disorder that drove her obsession to perform and win. For years after leaving the track, Suzy wrestled with her condition, as...
105) Leaving Las Vegas
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen and full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.
106) Skeleton Princess
Author
Series
Dark roads volume 1
Publisher
Epic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this map-your-destiny book, you make the decisions as Shawna, a girl from a wealthy family living in Las Vegas, who suffers from anorexia and a growing cocaine addiction. When you find out your parents are getting divorced, you set out on your own and sell yourself to feed your addiction. You must stay alive in a city where pleasure is currency and money comes before family, health, and your own sense of self-worth" --
107) Midnight cowboy
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 113 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
162 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, New York's jail system, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. For over fifty years, she has been on the front lines of struggles for queer liberation. In this brilliant and moving conversation...
109) Taxi driver
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mentally unstable Viet Nam war veteran who works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a 12-year old prostitute, embarking on a violent shooting rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
112) Risky business
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joel's wealthy suburban Chicago parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane than he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Blake Corley's luck turned colder than a Colorado winter, he knew he must leave Silverton to survive, even if it was the dead of winter. Agreeing to freight back to Durango the coffins of two dead payroll guards killed in a robbery, Corley takes with him a prostitute named Penny and a black laborer named Moses. What they don't know is they are carrying more than just bodies--the actual haul from the fatal robbery. If Blake is to survive, he...
114) The secret pearl
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
632 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
115) Pink Chimneys
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth-century Bangor, known as the Queen City, is a city of sharp contrasts--from the elegant mansions of Broadway, built from lumber fortunes and bootlegged alcohol money to the poverty-stricken Joppa neighborhood lined with taverns and frequented by desperate men and "fallen women." To survive, Maude, a headstrong midwife, Fanny, the rags-to-riches housemistress of the infamous Pink Chimneys brothel, and Elizabeth, an orphaned, demure seamstress,...