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Blood Ties [electronic resource] : by Nesbo, Jo.aut; Ferguson, Robert.; cloudLibrary;
The modern master of Nordic noir is back with an explosive novel about two brothers who, on the verge of losing everything, are willing to do anything to stop that from happening. By all accounts, Carol and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they are doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area's swanky and successful spa, while Roy runs the local gas station and dreams of building it into an entire amusement park complete with a roller coaster. But then news breaks about a new highway that will bypass Os and leave the town cut off and isolated. Something has to be done about that, even if the methods need to be dirty. Fortunately, Roy and Carl have experience with dirty work. Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a spate of unsolved murders from years past—including that of his own father. Just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb. Like Roy says about his roller coaster: "Once it is rolling, it's too late to get off." Blood Ties is a tense, compulsively readable tour de force about loyalty, family ties and love that is as destructive as it is powerful.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Noir; Suspense; Crime;
© 2025., Random House of Canada,
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Midsomer murders. [videorecording] / by Bangura, Roberto,1962-television director.; Carter, Matt(Television director),television director.; Cooke, Audrey,television director.; Dolman, Fiona,actor.; Dudgeon, Neil,actor.; Hendrix, Nick,1985-actor.; Hicks-Beach, Nick,screenwriter.; Jenkins, Helen(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Lalla, Christine,television director.; Murray, Chris(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Ward, Maria,screenwriter.; Acorn Media (Firm),production company.; RLJ Entertainment,distributor.;
Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Anete Badland.The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television cop shows.; Television crime shows.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Barnaby, Chief Inspector (Fictitious character); Criminal investigation; Murder; Police;
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Spirit of steamboat : [a Walt Longmire story] / by Johnson, Craig,1961-;
"A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&E's hit show Longmire. "It's a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you don't." Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when he's interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt's predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesn't recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holidays, Walt is at loose ends, and despite the woman's reticence to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her. At the Durant Home for Assisted Living Lucian Connally is several tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkle's and swears he's never clapped eyes on the woman before. Disappointed, she whispers "Steamboat" and begins a story that takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died in a terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest chance of survival. Back to a record-breaking blizzard, to Walt's first year as sheriff, with a young daughter at home and a wife praying for his safety. Back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life. Back to the Spirit of Steamboat"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Christmas stories.; Longmire, Walt (Fictitious character); Sheriffs;
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Somewhere : stories of migration by women from around the world / by Clark, Helen,1950-writer of foreword.; Harvey, Lorna Jane,1977-editor.;
Somewhere is an inspiring collection of stories about migration. Written from twenty women's perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. The implications of migration, especially for women, are often unknown, unheard, unspoken. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs is shared in this book. Identity, belonging, assimilation and alienation are some of the key topics in this sometimes sad but also joyful book. Treasures of wisdom and heartfelt honesty are found in the stories. The book will give the reader hope, encouragement, or insight into a globally relevant subject on a personal level rather than through distant, abstract news stories. Somewhere encourages open-mindedness and is filled with stories that will likely have a strong impact on the reader.
Subjects: Women immigrants; Emigration and immigration.;
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This is your mother : a memoir / by Simpson, Erica J.,author.;
"Growing up, Erika Simpson's mother loomed large, almost biblical in her life. A daughter of sharecroppers, middle child of ten, her origin story served as a kind of Genesis. Her departure from home and a cheating husband, pursuing higher education along the way a kind of Exodus. Her rules for survival, often repeated like the Ten Commandments, guided Erika's own journey into adulthood. And the most important rule? Throughout her life, Sallie Carol preached the power of a testimony-which often proved useful in talking her way out of a bind with bill collectors. But where does a mother's story end and a daughter's begin? In this brave, illuminating memoir, Erika offers a joint recollection of their lives as they navigate times of poverty and stability, separation and togetherness, illness and remission. Her mother's uncanny ability to endure Job-like trials and manifest New Testament-style miracles made her seem invincible. But while those who raise us may start out as gods in our lives, through her mother's final months and fifth battle with cancer, Erika captures the moment you realize that parents are just people. Weaving together a dual timeline and elements from both scripture and pop culture, Erika explores how the lessons, dreams, and patterns we inherit influence our future, for better and worse. Powerful, moving, and unforgettable, This Is Your Mother is a gorgeously rendered story of a mother's life through a daughter's eyes as she navigates through grief to a place of clarity where she can see who she is without her mom -- and because of her"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Simpson, Erica J.; Cancer; Mothers and daughters; Women authors, American;
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Murdoch mysteries. [videorecording] / by Bisson, Yannick,1969-; Craig, Tom,1962-; Jennings, Maureen.; Joy, Helene.; Acorn Media (Firm); Shaftesbury Films.;
Tattered and torn -- Kommando -- Buffalo shuffle -- Downstairs, upstairs -- Monsieur Murdoch -- Dead end street -- Cionfederate treasure -- Dial M for Murdoch -- The black hand -- Voices -- Bloodlust -- The kissing bandit -- Murdoch in wonderland.Music, Robert Carli.Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris.In the 1890's, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like 'finger marks' and forensics to track Toronto's most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the way they cross paths with some of the era's most famous figures, including Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Prince Alfred.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Constables; Crime scene searches; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Detectives; Fingerprints; Forensic sciences; Forensic scientists; Murder; Murdoch, William (Fictitious character); Women pathologists;
© c2012., Acorn Media,
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Pink glass houses : a novel / by Elias, Asha,author.;
There's a reason people call Miami Beach "a sunny place for shady people." Welcome to Sunset Academy, the most coveted elementary school in Miami Beach, where there are three categories of families: rich, wealthy, and ultra-wealthy. Perfectly tanned and smiling Charlotte Giordani is Sunset Academy's alpha mom. With a sleek blowout and relentless charm, Charlotte's brashness serves her well. She's up for election as the PTA president and is riding high, having just secured a massive donation from billionaire Don Walker and his socialite wife Patricia. Don and Patricia are philanthropists, media darlings, and the owners of Villa Rosé, a newly built modern glass house that everyone is talking about. (It's either spectacular or a tacky eyesore, depending on how you feel about billionaires.) Enter Melody Howard, a wide-eyed transplant from Wichita, Kansas. At first a skeptic about Miami Beach and its endlessly hashtaggable social scene, Melody finds herself sucked into the glossy, frenetic world of Sunset Academy moms. Melody's easygoing manner and background in nonprofit management make her an asset to the PTA. But when she emerges as a rival for the PTA presidency, Charlotte begins to unravel. Even the most powerful players on the social scene prove to be vulnerable when an investigation into white-collar crime--triggered by another school mom, the formidable Jamaican-American Judge Carol Lawson--threatens to take down the whole institution. No amount of rosé can soothe tensions as the drama builds to a shocking crisis point. Told in rotating first person voices, Pink Glass Houses is an irresistibly voyeuristic peek into the lives of the rich and infamous, where cocaine playdates, $100,000 kiddie birthday parties, and relentless social climbing are a way of life.
Subjects: Satirical fiction.; Novels.; Parents' and teachers' associations; Rich people; Scandals; Social status; Women;
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Birnam Wood A Novel [electronic resource] : by Catton, Eleanor.aut; CloudLibrary;
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize, Orwell Prize, and the Ockham Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award CBC Books' #1 Canadian Novel of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, and many more One of Barack Obama's 2023 Summer Reading List titles From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries comes an electrifying thriller about ambition, greed, environmental collapse, and how even our best intentions can lead to deadly consequences. Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster has created an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For Mira, Birnam Wood’s founder, occupying the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. The enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira and Birnam Wood, he makes them an offer that would set them up for the long term. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another? Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. It is an unflinching look at the surprising consequences of even our most well-intended actions, and an enthralling consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Psychological; Psychological;
© 2023., McClelland & Stewart,
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Miss Fisher's murder mysteries. [videorecording] / by Andrikidis, Peter,television director.; Banas, John,screenwriter.; Cameron, Ken,1946-television director.; Coleman, Elizabeth,screenwriter.; Corbett, Chris,screenwriter.; Cox, Deb,television producer,screenwriter.; Cummings, Ashleigh,1992-actor.; Davies, Sian,television director.; Davis, Essie,actor.; Dean, Ysabelle,screenwriter.; Dunphy, Kristen,screenwriter.; Eagger, Fiona,television producer.; Eames, Declan,television director.; Johnstone-Burt, Hugo,actor.; Margolyes, Miriam,actor.; Masters, Sue,television producer.; Millar, Catherine,television director.; Offen, Michelle,screenwriter.; Page, Nathan,actor.; Sklan, Carole,television producer.; Tilse, Tony,television director.; Tolhurst, Mia,screenwriter.; Television adaptation of (work) :Greenwood, Kerry.Phryne Fisher mystery.; ABC Television Network,film distributor.; Acorn Media (Firm),film distributor.; All 3 Media International (Firm),film distributor.; Australian Broadcasting Corporation,production company.; Every Cloud (Firm),production company.; Film Victoria,production company.; Screen Australia,production company.;
Director of photography, Roger Lanser ; production designer, Robert Perkins ; costume designer, Marion Boyce ; editor, Steve Evans, Nathan Wild ; composer, Greg J. Walker.Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings, Miriam Margolyes.Follow the Honorable Phryne (fry-nee) Fisher through the back alleys, shady markets, and jazz clubs of late 1920s Melbourne. A glamorous lady detective in a mostly male world, she goes about her work with a pear-handled pistol and dagger-sharp wit, leaving a trail of male admirers in her wake.PG.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Fisher, Phryne (Fictitious character); Nineteen twenties; Women private investigators;
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The last panthers. [videorecording] / by Arnal, Simon,television producer.; Benjo, Caroline,television producer.; Bogdan, Goran,actor.; Carlton, Peter,television producer.; Desmarais, Jimmy,television producer.; Hurt, John,1940-actor.; Laban, Jean-Alain,creator.; Letelier, Barbara,television producer.; Morton, Samantha,actor.; Pierrat, Jerome,1971-creator.; Rahim, Tahar,1981-actor.; Renck, Johan,1966-television director.; Ryan, Barry(Producer),television producer.; Scotta, Carole,television producer.; Shamma, Niall,television producer.; Thorne, Jack,screenwriter,creator.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; Centre national de la cinématographie (France),production company.; Cine+ (France),production company.; Haut et Court (Firm),production company.; Regie culturelle regionale Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur,production company.; Sky Television,presenter.; Studio Canal+,presenter,production company.; Sundance TV,production company.; Warp Films,production company.;
Samantha Morton, John Hurt, Tahar Rahim, Goran Bogdan.Originally broadcast by Canal+ in 2015.When several diamonds are stolen from a jewelry store in Marseilles, the heist bears the hallmarks of the supposedly retired Pink Panther gang. After a child is accidentally killed in their getaway, the thieves resort to desperate measures to fence the jewels. This sparks a series of events that set a British insurance-loss adjuster, a French-Algerian cop, and a Serbian soldier turned diamond thief on a dramatic and dangerous collision course.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, 16:9 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Television crime shows.; Television series.; Gangs; Jewelry theft; Thieves;
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