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Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Helen Keremos, Private Detective, is hired by a beautiful recording artist who has just won a million dollar lottery prize, her plan for a quiet life on the West Coast is quickly diverted. Helen is fiercely loyal, an independent woman whose magnetic personality and storied career make her the city's premier private eye, suspicious of all stereotypes and not afraid to bend the rules. Rising star Sonia Deerfield has been receiving blackmail threats...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Faerie-born Jack Flash and her human-born brother, Larry, run a detective agency in New York City specializing in crimes committed in the hazy boundary between human and faerie realms. They are busy dealing with the typical New York City troubles when an unusual drug case lands in their laps. The "flowers" drug not only gets users weirdly high, it also lets normal humans enter the faerie realm. Jack starts investigating, only to run right into the...
5523) Seed of destruction
Author
Series
Hellboy omnibus ; 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Hellboy saga begins--with over 300 pages drawn by Mignola! For the first time, Hellboy's complete story is presented in chronological order for the ultimate reading experience. The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau...
Author
Publisher
Tenacity Media Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in Newport, RI, the storied resort....
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dumb and dumber: Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money. Special features: 6 additional, never-before-seen, hysterical minutes; deleted and alternate scenes; retrospective documentary.
Fever pitch: According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman, finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend, suddenly anything is...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder's help, but suddenly she wasn't dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker's past are dirtier than her living, and searching for a killer in a city...
Author
Series
Lady Mechanika ; 1
Publisher
Benitez Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The tabloids dubbed her 'Lady Mechanika,' the sole survivor of a mad scientist's horrific experiments which left her with mechanical limbs. Having no memory of her captivity or her former life, Lady Mechanika eventually built a new life for herself as an adventurer and private investigator, using her unique abilities to solve cases the proper authorities couldn't or wouldn't handle. But she never stopped searching for the answers to her own past.
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Batman: A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
Beetlejuice: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Corpse Bride: When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young...
5530) The Human target: Book 2
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Chance has made a living out of being a human target-a man hired to disguise himself as his client to invite would-be assassins to attempt his murder. He's had a remarkable career until his latest case protecting Lex Luthor when things go sideways.--
5531) Bingebox: Clint Eastwood
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The outlaw Josey Wales: A peaceful farmer turns Confederate renegade to avenge the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of bandits-turned-Union sympathizers.
Million dollar baby: Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.
Gran Torino: A...
Publisher
FairSquare Comics LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A silent epidemic of stolen lives. In the streets of Harlem, black men are going missing, queer minors are being trafficked, dreams are being broken, the mafia is running amuck, and brand culture and social media are killing people. When the dirtiest of vices are ripe in back alleys and street corners, the nastiest of humanity's underbelly is put on display. With the police buried in cases and the community quickly losing faith, there is only one...
5533) Hellboy: ,Strange places
Author
Series
Hellboy ; 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Collects "Hellboy: The Third Wish," and "Hellboy: The Island" comics in which the title character, having left the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, travels to Africa and lives under the sea, learning from magical creatures and experiences about his role in the coming apocalypse.
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