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1) Detour
Series
Criterion collection volume 966
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run--a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter...
Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FN-2187 turns a bad day and troublesome pest into praise from Captain Phasma . Luke and Leia undertake a high-stakes, two-part undercover mission on Tibrin with explosive results. Plus more stories with K-2SO , Cassian , Emil , CR-8R , and the rebels vs. the Empire expand the world of Star Wars into new territory for a new generation of fans."-- cover page 4.
3) Detour
Author
Series
Publisher
Riptide Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ethan Domani had planned the perfect graduation trip before tragedy put his life on hold. Smothered by survivor's guilt and his close-knit family, he makes a break for the open road. He doesn't know what he's looking for, but he's got the whole summer to figure out who he misses more: his boyfriend, or the person he thought he was. It's just him and his memories . . . until he almost runs over a hitchhiker. Nick Hamilton made some mistakes after...
4) Detour
Author
Series
Mac 'n' Ivy mystery volume 2
Publisher
Rogue Ridge Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What follows a wedding? A honeymoon, of course. The beginning of a happily-ever-after future in which Ivy and Mac will travel the country in their motor home searching for the perfect place to settle down and live. No more dead bodies. No more murders. Instead, here they are on a detour to an old dinosaur park, and Ivy is up to her possum-gray hair in ghost goats, deteriorating dinosaurs, and . . . what else? A dead body, of course.
5) Detour
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An example of film noir which recounts the story of a man whose pursuit of the woman he loves is blocked by fate and another woman.
6) Scenic route: embracing the detours, roadblocks, and unexpected joys of raising an autistic child
Author
Publisher
TracherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of one family's journey from the shock and uncertainty of a severe autism diagnosis to acceptance and advocacy, in this beautifully written book Porch shares the lessons she has learned about charting your own course. From learning to cope with sleepless, worry-filled nights to asking friends and family for the help and support you actually need, she offers readers a road map for helping our children thrive while still taking the time...
7) Detour
Publisher
Magnet Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Law student and all around good guy Harper suspects his stepdad Vincent of causing the car crash that landed his mother in a coma. Drowning his sorrows in a seedy LA whisky bar Harper ends up drinking with Johnny Ray, a tough redneck who offers to 'take care' of Vincent for a cool twenty grand. In the cold light of day, Johnny Ray is more threatening and he won't take no for an answer when Harper protests that it was the whiskey talking.
9) The detour
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Livvy Flynn, a bestselling author of YA fiction, is kidnapped by a woman and her apparently manic daughter who have no intention of letting her go.
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes it takes everything going wrong to make you see how right things are. Dana Gottfried is a stressed-out Jewish lesbian who's just quit her job and wants to get home to see her grandmother. When her car breaks down in Indiana on Christmas Eve, Dana is stranded--until she's rescued by Charlie, a pig farmer who doesn't identify as male or female. Although they come from different worlds, Dana is intrigued by Charlie's sense of humor and kindness....
14) Detour
Author
Publisher
Rhino Records
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Cyndi Lauper's unmistakable voice on country classics from the 40s, 50s and 60s and features guest appearances from county music stars Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, and Willie Nelson.
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Alden siblings continue their mission to return lost artifacts around the world by visiting the Great Wall of China and an elephant reserve in Thailand, among other sites, but halfway around the world trouble seems closer than ever.
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a travel memoir that ventures from his smalltown upbringing to vastly different cultures around the globe, Tom Montgomery Fate comes to define "home" not as a physical location, but as a way of belonging. "Migrating birds have an internal compass that allows them to home their way back to their nesting place each spring," he writes. "For birds, home is both verb and noun--both journey and destination." The same is true for Fate. Whether he is bobbing...
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