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Blood Ties. by Nesbo, Jo.;
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 pastincluding 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.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Noir; FICTION / Thrillers / Crime; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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Queen of the court : the many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble / by Blais, Madeleine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-401) and index."From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble. In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the legendary Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage. Born in 1913, Marble grew up in San Francisco; her favorite sport, baseball. Given a tennis racket at age 13, she took to the sport immediately, rising to the top with a powerful, aggressive serve-and-volley style unseen in women's tennis. A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she also designed a clothing line in the off-season and sang as a performer in the Sert Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to rave reviews. World War II derailed her tennis career, but her life off the court was, if anything, even more eventful. She wrote a series of short books about famous women. Ever glamorous and connected, she had a part in the 1952 Tracy and Hepburn movie Pat and Mike, and she played tennis with the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, and her great friends, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. However, perhaps her greatest legacy lies in her successful efforts, working largely alone, to persuade the all-white US Lawn Tennis Association to change its policy and allow African American star Althea Gibson to compete for the US championship in 1950, thereby breaking tennis's color barrier. In two memoirs, Marble also showed herself to be an at-times unreliable narrator of her own life, which Madeleine Blais navigates brilliantly, especially Marble's dramatic claims of having been a spy during World War II. In Queen of the Court, the author of the bestselling In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle recaptures a glittering life story"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Marble, Alice, 1913-1990.; Tennis players.; Tennis players; Women tennis players.; Women tennis players;
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Where the wild things are-- and other Maurice Sendak stories [videorecording] / by King, Carole,1942-; Schickele, Peter.; Sendak, Maurice.; New Video Group.; Scholastic Inc.; Weston Woods Studios.;
Where the wild things are / written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak ; music and narration by Peter Schickele -- In the night kitchen / written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak ; music and narration by Peter Schickele -- Alligators all around / written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak -- One was Johnny / written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak -- Pierre / written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak -- Chicken soup with rice / written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.Nutshell Kids songs performed by Carole King.When Max is sent to bed without supper, he sails off to a world inhabited by weird creatures. Mickey is awakened by noises in the night. Alligators dance and sing through the alphabet. Counting forwards and backwards has never been so much fun. Pierre doesn't care about anything until he meets a hungry lion. Chicken soup with rice can be enjoyed all year long while learning the months.G.DVD.
Subjects: Alligators; Animated films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Imagination in children; Noise; Short films.; Video recordings for children.;
© c2013., Distributed by West Woods Studios ; Distributed by New Video,
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Gilmore girls. [videorecording] / by Sherman-Palladino, Amy.; Graham, Lauren.; Bledel, Alexis,1982-; McCarthy, Melissa.; Agena, Keiko.; Patterson, Scott.; Medina, Teresa,1965-; Narita, Hiro,1941-; Price, Michael A.; King, Carole,1942-; Phillips, Sam,1962-; Stern, Toni.; Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions.; Warner Bros. Television.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Directors of photography, Teresa Medina, Hiro Narita, Michael A. Price ; editor, David L. Bertman ; music, Carole King, Sam Phillips, Toni Stern ; costume designers, Vicki Graef, Robin Lewis-West, Caroline Marx ; production designer, Lauren Crasco ; special effects supervisor, Steve Riley.Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Keiko Agena, Scott Patterson, Yanic Truesdale, Jared Padalecki, Liza Weil, Milo Ventimiglia, Sean Gunn, Kelly Bishop, Edward Herrmann.For mother and daughter, Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, it's a year of change. Much of it is expected, like Rory's graduation from Chilton and the anxiety of waiting for college acceptance letters. But much of the change is not. Rory starts the year with two boyfriends, and that may be two too many. Lorelai rekindles the flame of romance with Max. Lane meets Mr. Right. Sookie gets a good surprise The Independence Inn gets a not-so-good surprise.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television programs.; Mothers and daughters; Friendship; Taverns (Inns);
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Dragonkeeper [videorecording] / by Bailey, Bill,voice actor.; Castrillo, Pablo,screenwriter.; Cos, Aurora de,film producer.; Howell, Anthony,1971-voice actor.; Li, Jianping,film director.; Nighy, Bill,1949-voice actor.; Simó, Salvador,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Wilkinson, Carole.Dragonkeeper (Novel); Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.;
Bill Nighy, Anthony Howell, Bill Bailey, Mayalinee Griffiths.Dragons, the mystical creatures once revered and loved across the land, are now being hunted to extinction in ancient China. But high on the mountaintops, one young girl's fiery spirit yearns for rebellion. After she frees the last living dragon from captivity, the unlikely duo sets off on a dangerous mission: to recover the last dragon egg. Tracked at every turn by the armies of the emperor, the pair learn to trust each other and work together. Along the way, they each discover new powers beyond their wildest dreams, unlocking the centuries-old secrets of the Dragonkeeper.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for violence, thematic elements and scary images.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Action and adventure films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Dragons; Enslaved children; Secrecy; Eggs; Quests (Expeditions); Human-animal relationships;
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