Murdoch, Iris.
Summary: A ten guinea wager between a woman and her former lover threatens to disrupt the lives of all those close to them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MurdoQuammen, David
Summary: "The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 QUABouldrey, Brian.
Summary: "Brian Bouldrey traveled to the island of Corsica, with its wine-dark Mediterranean waters, powdered-sugar beach sand, sumptuous cuisine, and fine wine. And then he walked away from all of them." "Bouldrey strapped on a backpack and walked across Napoleon's native land with the same spirit many choose to dance or drink: to celebrate, mourn, to think, to avoid thinking, to recall, to ignore, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terrace Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.499 BOUContents: When merit was not enough: Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate defeat in the West, 1862 / Steven E. Woodworth -- "The responsibility is great": Joseph E. Johnston and the war in Virginia / Alan Downs -- Fighting for defeat? George B. McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the change of base to the James River / Ethan S. Rafuse --Generalship on trial: Don Carlos Buell's campaign to Chattanooga /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 CIVMallon, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALAlrawi, Karim
Summary: "Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgettable characters--fishermen and date merchants, child cooks and squabbling animals, beggars and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALRMark, Sabrina Orah
Summary: "The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARK, SABRINA ORAH MARWest, Wallace
Summary: A smart and sassy boy in a red riding hood confronts a pushy wolf espousing gender norms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: "An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BAIExtreme II (Musical group)
Contents: Decadence dance -- Li'l Jack Horny -- When I'm president -- Get the funk out -- More than words -- Money (in God we trust) -- It ('s a monster) -- Pornograffitti -- When I first kissed you -- Suzi (wants her all day what?) -- He man woman hater -- Song for love -- Hole hearted.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EXTBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BAIReid, Stuart A.
Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.51031 REIBarry, Dave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 BARSummary: In many Middle Eastern countries, honor is so highly prized that it is considered more valuable than life itself. This program examines the code of conduct that makes each woman a sacred vessel of her family's honor-and the practice of atoning for any family member's breach of that code with her blood. Scholars, judges, and clergymen discuss the culturally sanctioned practice of "honorable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Poston, Ashley
Summary: Return to the geek-tastic world of Starfield fandom with a tale of a superstar and a superfan who swap lives in this sweet and funny companion novel to GEEKERELLA. Movie star Jessica Stone can't go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore--except that she's contractually obligated. She never dreamed she'd be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSColfer, Chris
Summary: An illustrated nursery rhyme and fairy tale collection features the classic tales that Alex and Conner fall into in the Land of Stories series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 COLAfanasev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich)
Summary: A collection of the classic Russian folk and fairy tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legend RussianHoena, B. A.
Summary: In this adventure a giant has to figure out what to do with an annoying human boy named Jack who climbed up a beanstalk: send him back, put him to work, or eat him--and the choice is up to the reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOESummary: An amazing adventure with Barbie where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie's two fashion stylist friends reveal they are actually fairies and that Ken has been taken to a magical secret fairy world not far away! Barbie and her rival Raquelle take off with the fairy friends on an action-packed journey to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BARKorda, Michael
Summary: "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KORContents: The pied piper of Hamelin -- Snow White and Rose Red -- It's perfectly true! -- Tom Thumb -- The nightingale -- Chicken Little -- The frog prince -- Cinderella -- The princess and the pea -- Ali Baba and the forty thieves -- The golden goose -- Why the sea is salt -- The ugly duckling -- Jack and the beanstalk -- Two frogs -- The snow queen -- Six sillies -- The hedgehog and the rabbit --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.21 WORJacobs, A. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACVaron, Elizabeth R.
Summary: "Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind-it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate over precisely what the surrender meant and what kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.738 VARFyleman, Rose
Summary: A kindly fairy uses her purchases only for a short time, then releases them for their own good or the good of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1986