Novik, Naomi
Summary: A collection of Temeraire-themed short stories, including "Planting Season," "Dragons and Decorum," and "Golden Age."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVRyan, Matthew.
Contents: Dulce et decorum est -- American dirt -- Meet me by the river -- It could've been worse -- Hold on firefly -- Jane, I still feel the same -- Killing the ghost -- They were wron -- I only want to be the man you want -- Drunk and disappointed -- Closing in.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Plastic Violin 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RYAGhazvinian, John H. (John Hossein)
Summary: "A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.55 GHAGray, Charlotte
Summary: "The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRAMcClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Following news of the deaths of her parents in 1885, Haven Abernathy moves from Georgia to Fletcher, Colorado, starting fresh with a millinery shop and teaching etiquette and decorum to the town's children. She is instantly drawn to Fletcher's brooding newcomer, Valentine Briscoe, but their family secrets may keep them apart"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCBalogh, Mary.
Summary: When Edward Ailsbury, Earl of Heyward, rescues Lady Angeline Dudley from a scoundrel's advances, she believe that she has found her true love. Edward hopes for a wife who shares his values of loyalty and decorum, but he is derailed by Angeline, who seems devoted to sending his predictable life into chaos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALLane, Rose Wilder
Summary: In Old Home Town, Rose Wilder Lane has recreated small-town society of pre-World War I America with a precise feeling for decorum, dress, and kitchen dialogue. Like Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio, she describes a community through the stories of certain memorable citizens. The overlay of nostalgia cannot hide some sharp observations about marriage and women's rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANHarris, Sam
Summary: In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 HARHicks, Randall
Summary: Step parenting involves special parenting challenges and skills. This book eliminates the fluff and gives you just the nuggets in 50 one-and-two page "chapters," each with an accompanying photograph, concisely addressing a particular issue. This is practical advice that both the stepparent and existing parent can instantly put to use.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WordSlinger Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 HICSummary: As common courtesy becomes less common and good taste is all but a contradiction of terms, Americans continue to push the envelope of socially acceptable behavior. Does the Golden Rule still apply, or are people too busy to care about the feelings of others? This program probes the apparent erosion of decorum in the United States, which has had a profound impact on respect for authority, trust...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Seales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: At an all-girls school during the Taisho era of Japan, rumors swirl that heiress Sayaka Yoshimura is having a forbidden love affair with her chauffeur, Shinobu Narutaki! Sayaka scoffs at the rumors, but could a romance between master and servant actually be brewing? Sayaka wears a crimson ribbon that signals she is at the top of her class, and her classmates all revere her. So when Narutaki...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2016
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Summary: One of professional tennis's Grand Slam Tournaments, the U.S. Open has been described as a fourteen-day Superbowl. This single tennis championship, held annually in New York City, attracts top professionals from around the globe, generates more money than any other sporting event--or any other sport over an entire season--and attracts more than 700,000 attendees and millions of television...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, KATRINA M. ADADotta, Jessica.
Summary: In 1838, a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston, orphaned and unmarried, finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to establish her as a servant in far-off Scotland. With two months to devise a better plan, Julia's first choice to marry her childhood sweetheart is denied. But when a titled dowager...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dotta 2013Summary: “What are the rules of behavior? Do people not know, or do they not care?” In this program, host Valerie Pringle explores the reasons behind the ostensible breakdown of manners, defined as treating others with consideration, within the group known as Generation Me. Etiquette experts, such as Judith Martin (or Miss Manners), author Lynne Truss, and Johns Hopkins University professor P. M. Forni,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Mingle, Pamela.
Summary: "For most of her life Mary Bennet has been an object of ridicule. With a notable absence of the social graces, she has been an embarrassment to her family on more than one occasion. But lately, Mary has changed. She's matured and attained a respectable, if somewhat unpolished, decorum. But her peace and contentment are shattered when her sister Lydia turns up-very pregnant and separated from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINSimonson, Helen.
Summary: You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010