Disher, Garry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISSummary: Follow Ms. Peregrine Fisher, niece of Miss Phryne Fisher, as she steps into her aunt's role as a lady detective, this time in 1960s Melbourne, Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MS.Summary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDGreenwood, Kerry.
Summary: A gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain, a rash of bad drug reactions, a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII, and the appearance of Corinna Chapman's boyfriend's beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to villainy and a puzzle waiting to be solved by the hefty Melbourne baker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREDisher, Garry.
Summary: Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his crew, searching for a serial killer operating in a beachside town outside Melbourne, Australia, feel a new sense of urgency when the daughter of one of the police sergeants is abducted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISGreenwood, Kerry.
Summary: Spunky Phryne Fisher leaves her adopted London for 1920s Australia to investigate the desperate letters she has been receiving from well-bred Lydia, a young woman married to a low-down scoundrel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBailey, Sarah
Summary: Lost and alone after relocating to Melbourne, brilliant Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is assigned to a hostile partner before investigating two seemingly unrelated murders--a homeless man and a high-profile movie star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIArthur, Keri.
Summary: Dhampire Riley Jenson, a hybrid of vampire and werewolf, journeys to Melbourne and into the heart of the city's seductive and dangerous urban underworld to find an enigmatic killer who has been using a nightclub that caters to its denizens' every fantasy as his stalking grounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Book/Bantam Dell 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ART RJ 4Tumarkin, Maria M.
Summary: "How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past-ours, our family's, our culture's-wields in the present? Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections-each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present-Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.92 TUMLiang, Ann
Summary: "Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIAGreenwood, Kerry
Summary: "Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISArthur, Keri.
Summary: In this exciting debut, a new author explodes onto the supernatural scene with this sexy, sensuous tale of intrigue and suspense, set in a world where legends walk and the shady paths of the underworld are far more sinister than anyone envisioned. A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson is just trying to find her place in the world. When her twin brother Rhoan is taken hostage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF ARTMurnane, Gerald
Summary: "Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane - the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections - the first two of which were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURPerlman, Elliot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERTaylor, Amy
Summary: "After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, kind, and financially responsible, Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type; Ana feels like she has finally awoken from a long dating nightmare. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSummary: A stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher, a glamorous lady detective in 1920s Melbourne. In 'Murder under the Mistletoe," Phryne's Christmas in July turns deadly when trapped inhabitants at a snowed-in mountain lodge find themselves being killed off according to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: At a family barbeque in suburban Melbourne, a man slaps another guest's unruly and disobedient child. Tensions run high in the family when the boy's mother presses assault charges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SLASimsion, Graeme C.
Summary: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SimsonUnreich, Rachelle
Summary: "The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter--a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNREICH, MIRA UNRSummary: When seventeen year old J's mother dies of an overdose, he calls his grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, who invites him to come live with her. A Ma Barker camouflaged as a cheery suburban grandmother, she dotes on her roguish boys, and looks to add J to the mix. The oldest is Pope, a gunman off his meds, unhinged drug dealer Craig, and baby-faced youngest Darren. The brothers, along with Pope's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANISummary: "I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture," says Mark "Chopper" Read. Read is one of Australia's best-selling authors, in part because before he became an author, he was one of Australia's most brutal stand-over men. "Chopper" tells his story with a kind of fascinated horror, a study of the mystique of criminal notoriety, and portrait of a cunning, ruthless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHOSummary: Armed with a razor-sharp wit, Miss. Fisher investigates crimes in opulent 1920s Australia. Sharply written and gorgeously costumed, these episodes are sure to charm fans of costume dramas and mysteries alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: Full of lively wit, surprising twists, and gorgeous period detail, the 1960s-set spinoff to the beloved Australian mystery series returns with new adventures for Phryne Fisher's plucky niece, Peregrine. Now established as a private detective, Peregrine works out of the Melbourne Adventuress Club with assistance from tough former spy Birdie Birnside and brilliant biologist Violetta Fellini. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021