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Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARC

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Archer 2017

Summary: Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles, and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Moulton, Rachel Eve

Summary: Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way. The town is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOU

Summary: The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, this tour de force thriller ... is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by [a] psychopathic serial killer ... [A] fascinating character-study.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER Hit

Child, Lee.

Summary: Hitching a ride to Virginia in a car with three strangers, Jack Reacher finds himself unwittingly involved in a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY CHI

Winton, Tim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Summary: Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRA

Armstrong, Kelley

Summary: The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrick--author of books on the supernatural--brings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARM

Child, Lee

7 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2024

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1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAR

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2017

Spanbauer, Tom.

Summary: In 1967, seventeen-year-old Rigby John Klusener escapes the narrow confines of his strict, religious farming family and the bigoted community in which he has grown up to hitchhike to San Francisco to discover life's mysteries and his own identity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION Spanbauer

Johnson, Denis

Contents: Car crash while hitchhiking -- Two men -- Out on bail -- Dundun -- Work -- Emergency -- Dirty wedding -- The other man -- Happy hour -- Steady hands at Seattle General -- Beverly Home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Rankin, Ian.

Summary: Two Scottish detectives investigate the disappearance of a hitchhiking teenage girl, their only clue a photo sent from the missing girl's cell phone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M RAN

Kerouac, Jack

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: New acquaintances Wesley Martin, a merchant marine, and intellectual Bill Everhart discuss Tom Wolfe, jazz music, communism and loneliness on their spontaneous hitchhiking trip from New York to Boston to board the S.S. Westminster.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2012

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