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The starless sea / by Morgenstern, Erin,author.;
"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to a subterranean library, hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians--it is a place of lost cities and seas of honey, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a beautiful barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose--in both the rare book and in his own life"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Seas; Libraries; Secret societies;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Summer of the dead / by Keller, Julia.;
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. In the third mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree--a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments--a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Murder; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ambush at Dark Canyon [videorecording] / by Bennett, David.; Blevins, Ronnie Gene.; Murphy, Timothy V.; Penny, Sydney.; Rikert, Dustin,1974-; Shockley, William,1963-; Tiboni, Phil.; Walker, Andrew,1979-; Phase 4 Films (Firm); Team Two Entertainment.;
Timothy V. Murphy, Andrew Walker, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Sydney Penny, Luke massy, Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Courtney Gains, Jennifer Blanc and Abraham Benrubi.When a daring bank robbery turns deadly, U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison. While behind bars, the disgraced lawman discovers the real bandits deadly plot to kill his wife in cold blood. Duke must plan a daring escape, reclaim his trusty six shooter, and stop the killers before it s too late. What starts as a race against time soon turns into an explosively violent showdown, fueled by vengeance, treachery, and above all else, justice.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Bank robberies; Feature films.; Murder; Police; Prisons; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western films.;
© c2014., Phase 4 Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wildcat : the untold story of Pearl Hart, the wild west's most notorious woman bandit / by Boessenecker, John,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The little-known story of Pearl Hart, the most famous female bandit in the American West. On May 30, 1899, history was made when Canadian-born and raised Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist spread, and Pearl Hart went on to become a media sensation and the most notorious female outlaw on the Western frontier. Her early life, family and fate after her later release from prison have long remained a mystery to scholars and historians--until now. Drawing on groundbreaking research into territorial records and genealogical data, John Boessenecker's Wildcat is the first book to uncover the enigma of Pearl Hart. Hailed by many as "The Bandit Queen," her epic life of crime and legacy as a female trailblazer provide a crucial lens into the lives of the rare women who made their mark in the American West.
Subjects: Biographies.; Hart, Pearl.; Women outlaws; Women outlaws;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A private cathedral / by Burke, James Lee,1936-author.;
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny and Isolde are in love. And like Romeo and Juliet, Johnny and Isolde are being kept apart by their families. In fact, Isolde tells Robicheaux, her parents have given her to the Shondell patriarch to be used as a sex slave. Seeking to uncover why, Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and her father's mistress. As retribution, the elder Balangie orders a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcell. Yet this is unlike any hitman Robicheaux has ever faced: he has the ability induce hallucinations and might be a time-traveling reptilian. A Private Cathedral is both vintage James Lee Burke and one of his most inventive works to date--mixing romance, violence, mythology and science-fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character); Assassins; Families; Organized crime; Police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Bandit : a daughter's memoir / by Brodak, Molly,author.;
"In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the "Mario Bros. Bandit" by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars. In her powerful, provocative debut memoir, Bandit, Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew. At some angles he was a normal father: there was a job at the GM factory, a house with a yard, birthday treats for Molly and her sister. But there were darker glimmers, too-another wife he never mentioned to her mother, late-night rages directed at the TV, the red Corvette that suddenly appeared in the driveway, a gift for her sister. Growing up with this larger-than-life, mercurial man, Brodak's strategy was to "get small" and stay out of the way. In Bandit, she unearths and reckons with her childhood memories and the fracturing impact her father had on their family-and in the process attempts to make peace with the parts of herself that she inherited from this bewildering, beguiling man. Written in precise, spellbinding prose, Bandit is a stunning, gut-punching story of family and memory, of the tragic fallibility of the stories we tell ourselves, and of the contours of a father's responsibility for his children"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Brodak, Molly.; Brodak, Molly; Poets, American; Fathers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Superman. [graphic novel] / by Williamson, Joshua,author.; Baldeón, David,1976-illustrator.; Campbell, Jamal,colorist,illustrator.; Filipe, Caio,illustrator.; Galmon, Edwin,colorist,illustrator.; Jurgens, Dan,illustrator.; Lokus, Rex,colorist.; Lucas, Adriano,colorist.; Maher, Ariana,letterer.; Melʹnikov, Gleb,illustrator.; Rapmund, Norm,illustrator.; Redondo, Bruno,1981-illustrator.; Sánchez, Alejandro,1985-colorist.; Sharpe, Dave(Letterer),letterer.;
Superman has found that Lex Luthor kept a prisoner underneath Stryker's Island for decades. Who are they and why did Lex keep them locked up? Can Superman unlock the secrets of the Chained?
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Superman (Fictitious character); Luthor, Lex (Fictitious character); Superheroes; Supervillains;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sergeant York. by Hawks, Howard,film director.; Cooper, Gary,actor.; Tobias, George,actor.; Leslie, Joan,actor.; Lockhart, June,actor.; Ridges, Stanley,actor.; Brennan, Walter,actor.; Warner Bros. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Gary Cooper, George Tobias, Joan Leslie, June Lockhart, Stanley Ridges, Walter BrennanOriginally produced by Warner Bros. in 1941.Gary Cooper delivers an Academy Award-winning performance as the most decorated hero of World War I in this true story of Sergeant York.When Tennessee farmer Alvin York is drafted, he enters the military as a conscientious objector, refusing to use violence against anyone. Although a born leader and patriot, the deeply religious York goes to the front still believing in nonviolence. But when his unit is overwhelmed by Germans, Sergeant York takes up arms to defend his friends. Single-handed, he stops a German offensive and takes 132 prisoners.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Motion Pictures.; Biographical films.; War.; World War, 1914-1918.;
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Put out to pasture / by Flower, Amanda.;
"Shiloh Bellamy saved her father's farm and is finally scraping by as a sustainable and organic farmer in Michigan. Since moving back, she has reconnected with old friends, including her best friend Kristy Brewer and Kristy's husband, Caine. Caine runs the farmer's market with an iron fist, and no one is surprised when he's killed except for Kristy who loved her husband despite his many faults. But when it's discovered that Caine was having an affair, Kristy becomes the number-one suspect in the crime. Shiloh must root out the real killer to save her best friend from prison in this cozy mystery for fans of food, country living, and devious murder"--
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Organic farmers; Farmers' markets; Family farms; Murder; Adultery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The other Dr. Gilmer : two men, a murder, and an unlikely fight for justice / by Gilmer, Benjamin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name. His predecessor, Dr. Vince Gilmer, was beloved by his patients and community--right up until the shocking moment when he strangled his ailing father and then returned to the clinic for a regular day of work after the murder. He'd been in prison for nearly a decade by the time Benjamin arrived, but Vince's patients would still tell Benjamin they couldn't believe the other Dr. Gilmer was capable of such violence. The more Benjamin looked into Vince's case, the more he knew that something was wrong. Vince knew, too. He complained from the time he was arrested of his "SSRI brain," referring to withdrawal from his anti-depressant medication. When Benjamin visited Vince in prison, he met a man who was obviously fighting his own mind, constantly twitching and veering off into nonsensical tangents. Enlisting This American Life journalist Sarah Koenig, Benjamin resolved to get Vince the help he needed. But time and again, the pair would come up against a prison system that cared little about the mental health of its inmates--despite an estimated one third of them suffering from an untreated mental illness. In The Other Dr. Gilmer, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer tells of how a caring man was overcome by a perfect storm of rare health conditions, leading to an unimaginable crime. Rather than get treatment, Vince Gilmer was sentenced to life in prison--a life made all the worse by his untrustworthy brain and prison and government officials who dismissed his situation. A large percentage of imprisoned Americans are suffering from mental illness when they commit their crimes and continue to suffer, untreated, in prison. In a country with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer argues that some crimes need to be healed rather than punished"--
Subjects: Clemency; Mentally ill offenders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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