Niehaus, LennieOverview
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Most widely held works by
Lennie Niehaus
Million dollar baby
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3 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 1,593 libraries worldwide A male boxing trainer attempts to help a young female boxer achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
Mystic River
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 1,193 libraries worldwide Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quiet life, but harbors some disturbing secrets of his own.
Blood work
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8 editions published between 2002 and 2007 in English and French and held by 977 libraries worldwide There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he now has. Now McCaleb has to use his wits to discover who is responsible for the murders.
The bridges of Madison County
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20 editions published between 1995 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 957 libraries worldwide World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found.
Follow that bird
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2 editions published between 2002 and 2009 in English and held by 779 libraries worldwide A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to Ocean View, Illinois, for the comforts of family life with his "own kind," the Dodos. But Big Bird is a disaster as a Dodo and, lonely and homesick, he soon sets off on foot for Sesame Street.
Absolute power
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9 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 614 libraries worldwide Career thief and ex-con Luther Whitney witnesses the death of a woman by the President of the United States and no one is ready or willing to believe his story. What lengths will the President and his aids go to in order to hide the truth?
Space cowboys
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15 editions published between 2001 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 520 libraries worldwide The brash flyboys of Team Daedalus trained body and mind for America's leap into space. Then, with the formation of NASA, they were replaced by trained chimpanzees. Four decades later, the old-school test pilots, with their grasp of outdated technology, are the only ones able to repair Russia's primitive, deorbiting satellite that threatens to crash to earth.
Bird
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2 editions published between 1988 and 2001 in English and held by 485 libraries worldwide The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.
Unforgiven
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2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 463 libraries worldwide Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty has many more obstacles to overcome besides just finding and killing the gunslingers. Little Bill is the town sheriff of Old Whiskey who keeps a tight hold on what goes on in his town and outlaws all firearms within the city limits. He has little respect for assassins and hired guns, and enforces his law with the most brutal of measures.
Unforgiven
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18 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 281 libraries worldwide The town of Big Whisky people try to lead a quiet life. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps heavy-handed order. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid,' and aging killer William Munny. Munny is a widower trying to raise his two young children. Farm life is hard and Munny is no good at it. He calls on his old partner Ned, saddles his nag, and rides off to kill one more time.
Tightrope
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7 editions published between 1984 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 281 libraries worldwide Clint Eastwood is Wes Block, a lawman teetering on a tightrope separating him from the man he strives to be and the man he fears he is. When Block investigates some brutal sex murders, he discovers a chilling link between himself and the suspect.
From the creative world of Stan Kenton comes adventures in jazz
by Stan Kenton
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1 edition published in 1999 and held by 211 libraries worldwide
Pale rider
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11 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 174 libraries worldwide An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
Heartbreak Ridge
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2 editions published between 1990 and 1998 in English and held by 165 libraries worldwide Eastwood plays "Gunny" Highway, a grizzled U.S. Marine Corps lifer who, as he begins his last tour of duty before mandatory retirement, sees the bumpy road his life has taken become even more complicated.
Midnight in the garden of good & evil
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10 editions published between 1997 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 161 libraries worldwide Affable Jim Williams is hosting one of the most important parties of the Savannah Christmas season. John Kelso is a magazine reporter who finds himself amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on the party. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Between being Jim's buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy's murder, Kelso has his hands full.
True crime
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5 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 91 libraries worldwide Boozer. Skirt chaser. Careless father. You could create your own list of veteran reporter Steven Everett's faults, but not right now. A San Quentin death row prisoner is slated to die at midnight, a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent. Intercuts the parallel stories of the inmate and Everett's scramble to save the man. And just maybe, lift his own life out of the trash heap along the way.
Intermediate jazz conception for saxophone : 20 jazz exercises, 25 jazz etudes
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6 editions published between 1964 and 2006 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 89 libraries worldwide
Bird
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13 editions published between 1988 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 84 libraries worldwide The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
Changeling original motion picture soundtrack
by Clint Eastwood
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2 editions published in 2008 in No Linguistic content and Undetermined and held by 80 libraries worldwide
Clint Eastwood out of the shadows
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4 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 79 libraries worldwide A look at the life and career of Clint Eastwood, an American actor and filmmaker. more
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Adultery Baldacci, David Big Bird (Fictitious character) Bounty hunters Boxing for women Boxing trainers Comedy films Detective and mystery films Dodo Drama Ex-convicts Families Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Films Films for the hearing impaired Films--for the hearing impaired Friendship in children Homicide investigation Iowa Iowa--Madison County Jazz Jazz musicians Juvenile works Lehane, Dennis Massachusetts--Boston Muppets (Fictitious characters) Murder Murder--Investigation Musicians' spouses Organ donors Parker, Charlie,--1920-1955 Photographers Police films Political corruption Presidents Saxophonists Serial murderers Sheriffs Sports films Thrillers (Motion pictures) United States Video recordings for the hearing impaired Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Waller, Robert James,--1939- West (U.S.) Widowers Women boxers
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Alternative Names
Niehaus, L. 1929-
Niehaus, Leonard.
Niehaus, Leonard, 1929-
Languages
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English (401) Undetermined (156) French (133) German (44) Multiple languages (43) Spanish (39) Dutch (9) Turkish (2) Afrikaans (2) Covers
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