Chris Bauer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter, impressed with Deke's cop instincts, unofficially engages his help. But as they track the killer, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's...
Language
English
Description
The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie...
3) 61*
Language
English
Description
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, one was the Yankees' best loved players and the other was their most valuable. 1961 was about to be the summer that no one who loves baseball will ever forget. Both men find that they are approaching Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season 60 home-run record. Facing pressure from the media and the stands, both men know that there is only room for one winner. The fans make their choice, but the people's favorite isn't the favorite...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
5) Dismissed
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
David Butler is a discouraged but optimistic high school English teacher struggling to connect with his uninterested students. So when honor student Lucas Ward transfers into his class, he's thrilled to teach such a passionate scholar. David's excitement soon turns to fear however as he realizes that Lucas' perfectionism is pathological and that the vengeful pupil is willing to destroy anyone standing between him and a perfect GPA.
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents, the mysterious and ancient Warlow.
9) Wolves
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An eighteen-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team, a good student, has a longtime girlfriend and some good friends. But at home he's struggling with his troubled father who has a gambling addiction. His mother tries to keep the family afloat but does so with great emotional and financial sacrifice.
Pub. Date
2008, [2009]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps, where vampires have emerged from the coffin and no longer need humans for their fix. A local waitress has the ability to hear the thoughts of others and her situation becomes more complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Benji the hunted (G) (1987) (89 min.): "Lost at sea and washed ashore in the rugged backwoods of North America, Benji inadvertently becomes the guardian to an orphaned little of cougar cubs. Together, they dodge untold perils from man and beast in an amazing odyssey to reach safety"--Back cover.
A dog's purpose (PG) (2017) (100 min.): "A devoted dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For 70,000 Marines this was more than a turning point of World War II, it was the defining moment of their lives. Explores the complicated nature of heroism, courage and patriotism in the harrowing true story of four Marines who fought the bloody battles at Iwo Jima during World War II and how a single photo emerged as one of the most evocative icons of the 20th Century.