Summary: Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICSummary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSalih, Zak
Summary: "Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALCompton, Ralph.
Summary: Returning home after the Civil War, Texas rancher Dan Ember and his neighbors find that their only chance of survival is a dangerous cattle drive north across the Llano, an area overrun with killers, gunslingers, and Quanah Parker's Comanches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COMCompton, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COMCompton, Ralph.
Summary: Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMPeters, Ralph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeters, Ralph
Summary: Imagines a post-apocalyptic war launched by America in retaliation against Islamic extremists who have used nuclear weapons to destroy Los Angeles, Israel and parts of Europe, a battle that is complicated by anti-Muslim Christian zealots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRalph, Vincent
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Nate Campbell, haunted by the curse of Murder Road, relocates with his family to escape the vengeful spirit of the Hiding Boy, but when he joins his new friends' urban legend club, old ghost stories collide with new and Nate must face the curse of the Hiding Boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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Summary: "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHARelth, Michael
Summary: "A dog writes the story of its adoption-and learning to live in a loving home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: "Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne's involvement is something she can't reveal to either of them. Two generations later, Claire's English granddaughter Harriet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VALJaffari, Laleh
Summary: "When the rain comes the elephant likes to put up his umbrella and invite his friends underneath. One day the umbrella is swept away by the wind and meets the leopard and the bear, who have very different ideas about how to use the umbrella."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAFBakshi, Ralph
Summary: Frodo the Hobbit and his friends fight to save Middle-Earth from the Dark Power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LORCompton, Ralph.
Summary: The ranchers riding with Rand Hayes cross the Mojave Desert to confront the hardships of a brutal land, a hostile Ute nation, and the mysterious territory of California in their attempts to drive the cattle to market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMCompton, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet/New American Library 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COMLazar, Ralph
Summary: "Dash and his friends Rob and Greta are used to unusual things happening at their school, Swedhump Elementary. But even they pay attention when their invisible principal, Mrs. Rosebank, announces that they have a special guest: Ms. Aqualine, the owner of the new Aqualina Water Park. Most elementary students don't get to spend time on waterslides during the school day. But soon Dash, Rob, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAZLazar, Ralph
Summary: Dash Candoo is used to really strange, mysterious things happening at his school. But now, really, really, really strange and mysterious things are happening. Dash starts to wonder what's going on when mysterious tire marks and strange sounds start coming from Moremi Forest, next to Swedhump Elementary. When he and his friend Rob go to investigate, they can't work out what's going on. All they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAZMeeker, Ralph
Summary: Private detective Mike Hammer thwarts the theft of radioactive material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER KISPeters, Ralph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeters, Ralph
Summary: "The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley ... pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: ... Phillip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart; ... the dashing Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon, a charismatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCompton, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMEllison, Ralph.
Summary: In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLLazar, Ralph
Summary: Dash Candoo's Monday is filled with adventure--during breakfast battling scallywags and the Devil Cat and then at school, confronted with Total Mayhem Situations involving an assortment of missing objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021