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Nonna Maria and the case of the missing bride / by Carcaterra, Lorenzo,author.;
"When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from author Lorenzo Carcaterra. Nonna Maria has lived in Ischia, a little island in the Gulf of Naples, her entire life. Recognizable by the widow's black she's worn every day for decades, Maria always has pasta on the stove and espresso in the pot for the neighbors who stop by to ask her advice on life and love. Everyone knows her, and she knows everyone's business. So when something goes wrong, islanders look to her, and not the local carabinieri, to find the solution. A man's fiancée disappears the night before the wedding. Is it a case of cold feet, or is something more sinister in play? A fisherman who knows the waters around the island like the back of his hand is drowned early one morning. Was it a tragic accident, or is there more to the story? While the police appear uninterested in these domestic concerns, Nonna Maria pours herself another glass of red wine and gets to work"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Novels.; Fishing accidents; Island life; Missing persons; Older women; Widows;
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Captains courageous [videorecording (DVD)] / by Barrymore, Lionel,1878-1954; Bartholomew, Freddie,1924-; Fleming, Victor,1883-1949; Kipling, Rudyard,1865-1936; Tracy, Spencer,1900-1967; Warner Home Video;
Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore.Little brat Harvey accidently goes overboard on an ocean liner and is picked up by a fishing boat where he remains stranded with the fishermen crew.PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936; Accidents; Adventure films; Feature films; Fishers; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c2006., Warner Home Video,
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Some assembly required : decoding four billion years of life, from ancient fossils to DNA / by Shubin, Neil,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds, the beginnings of bodies in single-celled creatures. Shubin describes how over the last half-century, scientists have been able to explore how genetic recipes build bodies during embryological development--how these inventions and adaptations occur in a nonprogressive manner in different contexts, at different speeds. Paleontology has been transformed over the last 50 years by tools and techniques of molecular biology--and it is that revolution in our understanding of the evolution of life that Shubin traces here. Each of us is a mosaic of precursors that came about at different times and places, with deep rooted connections across species that Darwin, for all he understood, could never even have imagined"--
Subjects: Life; Paleontology.; Human evolution.;
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Damages. [videorecording] / by Byrne, Rose.; Close, Glenn,1947-; Donovan, Tate.; Fish, Mark.; Kessler, Glenn,1970-; Kessler, Todd Ellis.; Scott, Campbell.; Short, Martin,1950-; Zelman, Daniel.; Bluebush Productions.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Television.;
Disc 1. Episodes 1 - 4.Disc 2. Episodes 5 - 7.Disc 3. Episodes 8 - 10.Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, Campbell Scott, Martin Short.DVD release of episodes originally broadcast on television in 2010.In season three, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection, Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother, Patty is surprised when she runs into her son Michael's pregnant girlfriend, and more.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Class actions (Civil procedure); Law students; Lawyers; Legal television programs.; Television programs.;
© c2011., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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The mermaid's secret / by Schickel, Katie,author.;
Life on land is suffocating for Jess Creary, who wastes her summers flipping burgers for tourists on a fishing boat off her quaint resort island home off the coast of Maine. After all, her older sister Kay died in a boating accident two years ago, her mother has disappeared, and her father isn't exactly dealing with things so well. Surfing and the handsome Captain Matthew are about the only bright spots in her life. Then, on her twenty-third birthday, Jess catches the perfect wave--a wave that transforms her into a mermaid. Under the sea, a startlingly beautiful, dark place, Jess is reborn into a confident, powerful predator with superhuman strength --finally she is someone to be reckoned with. Meanwhile, back on land, Jess's relationship with Captain Matthew heats up, and so does her search for justice for Kay. Jess has thirty days to choose between land and sea; legs and fins; her humanity and her freedom. Who could ignore the freedom of the sea? Yet, the ocean is a dark, wild, lonely place. Is this a gift or a curse? Will Jess choose family and love, forgiveness and truth, or will she be seduced by the wild call of the sparkling sea forever?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mermaids; Self-acceptance;
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An Irish country welcome / by Taylor, Patrick,1941-author.;
In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue are anxiously awaiting their first child, but as the community itself prepares to welcome a new decade, the closing months of the 1960s bring more than a televised moon landing to Barry, his friends, his neighbors, and his patients, including a number of sticky questions. A fledgling doctor joins the practice as a trainee, but will the very upper-class Sebastian Carson be a good fit for the rough and tumble of Irish country life? And as sectarian tensions rise elsewhere in Ulster, can a Protestant man marry the Catholic woman he dearly loves, despite his father's opposition? And who exactly is going to win the award for the best dandelion wine at this year's Harvest Festival? But while Barry and Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly and their fellow physicians deal with everything from brain surgery to a tractor accident to a difficult pregnancy, there's still time to share the comforting joys and pleasures of this very special place: fly-fishing, boat races, and even the town's very first talent competition!
Subjects: Recipes.; Medical fiction.; Pastoral fiction.; Domestic fiction.; O'Reilly, Fingal Flahertie (Fictitious character); Laverty, Barry (Fictitious character); Physicians; Country life;
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Damages. [videorecording] / by Byrne, Rose.; Close, Glenn,1947-; Donovan, Tate.; Fish, Mark.; Kessler, Glenn,1970-; Kessler, Todd Ellis.; Scott, Campbell.; Short, Martin,1950-; Zelman, Daniel.; Bluebush Productions.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Television.;
Disc 1. Your secrets are safe -- The dog is happier without her -- Flights at 11:08 -- Don't throw that at the chicken -- It's not my birthday.Disc 2. Don't forget to thank Mr. Zedeck -- You haven't replaced me -- I look like Frankenstein -- Drive it through hardcore.Disc 3. Tell me I'm not a racist -- All that crap about your family -- You were his little monkey -- The next one's gonna go in your throat.Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, Campbell Scott, Martin Short.DVD release of episodes originally broadcast on television in 2010.In season three, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection, Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother, Patty is surprised when she runs into her son Michael's pregnant girlfriend, and more.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Class actions (Civil procedure); Law students; Lawyers; Legal television programs.; Television programs.;
© c2011., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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The Cuban affair : a novel / by DeMille, Nelson,author.;
"Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don't tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac's finances are more than a little shaky. One day, Mac is sitting in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups. Carlos wants to hire Mac and The Maine for a ten-day fishing tournament to Cuba at the standard rate, but Mac suspects there is more to this and turns it down. The price then goes up to two million dollars, and Mac agrees to hear the deal, and meet Carlos's clients--a beautiful Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega, and a mysterious older Cuban exile, Eduardo Valazquez. What Mac learns is that there is sixty million American dollars hidden in Cuba by Sara's grandfather when he fled Castro's revolution. With the "Cuban Thaw" underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara know it's only a matter of time before someone finds the stash--by accident or on purpose. And Mac knows if he accepts this job, he'll walk away rich"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Veterans;
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The Cuban affair [sound recording] : a novel / by DeMille, Nelson,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick."Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don't tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac's finances are more than a little shaky. One day, Mac is sitting in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups. Carlos wants to hire Mac and The Maine for a ten-day fishing tournament to Cuba at the standard rate, but Mac suspects there is more to this and turns it down. The price then goes up to two million dollars, and Mac agrees to hear the deal, and meet Carlos's clients--a beautiful Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega, and a mysterious older Cuban exile, Eduardo Valazquez. What Mac learns is that there is sixty million American dollars hidden in Cuba by Sara's grandfather when he fled Castro's revolution. With the "Cuban Thaw" underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara know it's only a matter of time before someone finds the stash--by accident or on purpose. And Mac knows if he accepts this job, he'll walk away rich"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Veterans;
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The new husband / by Palmer, Daniel,1962-author.;
"A riveting new thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from the author of Saving Meghan. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you know them. Nina Garrity learned that the hard way after discovering that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. But Glen's gone--presumably drowned while fishing on his boat--so she can't confront him about the affair or any of his other misdeeds. A year and a half after the accident, Nina considers herself a widow, even though the police never found a body. Following a chance encounter with Simon Fitch, a teacher from her daughter Maggie's middle school, Nina finds love again and has hopes of putting her shattered life back together. Simon, a widower still grieving the suicide of his first wife, has found his dream girl in Nina. His charm and affections help break through to a heart hardened by betrayal. Nina's teenage son, Connor, embraces Simon as the father he wishes his dad could have been, but Maggie sees a far darker side to this new man in their lives. Even Nina's good friends wonder if Simon is supremely devoted--or dangerously possessive. But Nina is committed, not only to her soon-to-be new husband but also to resuming her former career as a social worker. Before she can move forward, however, Nina must first clear her conscience that she's not making another terrible choice in a man. In doing so, she will uncover the shocking truth: the greatest danger to her, and her children, are the lies people tell themselves"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Widows; Widowers; Remarriage;
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