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"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and,...
66) The photograph
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Pub. Date
2018.
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407 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Italy, 1958: Rachael is a young widow with a small child. After a lifetime of running for survival, of not knowing who to trust and where to call home, she finds herself in a place of safety. On a sun-drenched Italian island for one carefree summer the troubles of her past fade away and she falls in love. But will Rachael's new-found happiness bring her further heartache? England, 2017: Sophie has a handsome husband, a gorgeous house in the English...
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[2023]
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2 videodiscs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Pop sells the crumbling mansion next door to waspish newcomers for more than it's worth, he celebrates with plans to build a swimming pool but his neighbors soon plot their revenge. Can the Larkin clan keep him out of prison?
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New Yorker decades volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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xvii, 764 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A look back at the 1950s chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction.
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Girl Friday mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Viviana Valentine--Girl Friday turned partner to New York's top investigator, Tommy Fortuna--is drawn into a sordid new case when Buster Beacon, a wealthy man of science, beckons them to a party at his mansion north of the city. There, Buster entertains blue-blooded friends as well as investors keen to make a dollar on the many advancements made in his home laboratory, but he's been hearing strange noises in the night coming from his expansive estate,...
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Jupiter's circle volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"In midcentury America, the world's greatest superheroes triumph in their public battles, while struggling with private ones. Social and political unrest take a personal toll: one member joins the counterculture movement, others grapple with personal demons, and suspicion and betrayal cast a shadow over the most trusted friendships."--
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2022.
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around...
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2019.
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281 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"1957: In the beach town of Brighton, music is playing and guests are sunning themselves, when a young man is found dead, dripping blood, in a deck chair. Constable Twitten of the Brighton Police Force has a hunch that the fiendish murder may be connected to a notorious nightspot, but his captain and his colleagues are-- as ever-- busy with other more important issues. Inspector Steine is being conned into paying for the honor of being featured at...
78) The 1950s
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Pub. Date
2004.
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xxi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
Author
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Shire library volume 740
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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