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- Gone for good / by Schaffhausen, Joanna,author.;
"Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up. The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his identity. Detective Annalisa Vega lost someone she loved to the killer. Now she's at a murder scene with the worst kind of déjà vu: Grace Harper lies bound and dead on the floor, surrounded by clues to the biggest murder case that Chicago homicide never solved. Annalisa has the chance to make it rights and to heal her family, but first, she has to figure out what Grace knew-how to see a killer who may be standing right in front of you. This means tracing his steps back to her childhood, peering into dark corners she hadn't acknowledged before, and learning that despite everything the killer took, she has still so much more to lose"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women detectives; Executives; Murder; Serial murders; Serial murder investigation;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The book woman of Troublesome Creek / by Richardson, Kim Michele,author.;
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Packhorse librarians; Traveling libraries;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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- The woman they could not silence : one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear / by Moore, Kate(Writer and editor),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line-conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their freedom, and disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware), 1816-1897.; Social reformers; Married women; Mentally ill; Insanity (Law); Women;
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- The in-between bookstore : a novel / by Underhill, Edward,author.;
"A whimsical and healing novel about a trans man in New York who -- almost 30, laid off, broke -- moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school ... and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self"--
- Subjects: Transgender fiction.; Queer fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Bookstores; Male friendship; Small cities; Space and time; Time travel;
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- Crossroads / by Franzen, Jonathan,author.;
"It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate."--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Intergenerational communication; Intergenerational relations;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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- Threads of suspicion / by Henderson, Dee,author.;
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- Subjects: Religious fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Illinois State Police; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Missing persons; Women detectives;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The Good Girl / by Kubica, Mary,author.;
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- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Kidnapping; Rich people; Extortion; Man-woman relationships; Police; Amnesia;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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- 8-bit Christmas [videorecording] / by Dowse, Michael,film director.; Fegley, Winslow,actor.; Harris, Neil Patrick,1973-actor.; Jakubowski, Kevin,1979-screenwriter.; Raphael, June Diane,actor.; White, Tim(Film producer),film producer.; White, Trevor(Producer),film producer.; Zahn, Steve,1968-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Jakubowski, Kevin,1979-8-Bit Christmas.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Editor, Trevor Ambrose ; director of photography, Samy Inayeh.Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, June Diane Raphael, Steve Zahn.In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Christmas films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Boys; Christmas; Gifts; Nineteen eighties; Nintendo video games; Video games;
- For private home use only.
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- Kid guides. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Echo Entertainment.; Janson Media.;
Downtown Aquarium, Houston, Texas -- Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois -- Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California.G.DVD.
- Subjects: John G. Shedd Aquarium.; Monterey Bay Aquarium.; Aquariums; Aquariums; Aquariums; Children's films.; Video recordings for children.;
- © c2008., Janson Media,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency / by Abrams, Dan,author.; Fisher, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln's debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician. He was being urged to make a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860. Taking this case involved great risk. His reputation was untarnished, but should he lose this trial, should Harrison be convicted of murder, the spotlight now focused so brightly on him might be dimmed. He had won his most recent murder trial with a daring and dramatic maneuver that had become a local legend, but another had ended with his client dangling from the end of a rope. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office--and who had bitterly slandered Lincoln as an "infidel ... too lacking in faith" to be elected. Lincoln's Last Trial captures the presidential hopeful's dramatic courtroom confrontations in vivid detail as he fights for his client--but also for his own blossoming political future. It is a moment in history that shines a light on our legal system, as in this case Lincoln fought a legal battle that remains incredibly relevant today. --Amazon.com.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents; Trials (Murder);
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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