Monroe, Jana
Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MONThompson, Dave
Summary: Describes the three singer-songwriters and their rise to fame, discussing the atypical pop stars' collective body of work, including "Fire and Rain," "Somebody's Baby," and "Peace Train," and how they set the standard for other artists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 THOSummary: Joseph Conrad's compelling novella, marked by an ominous tone and a sense of unspeakable menace, is a literary introduction to the savage 20th century. In this program, noted Conrad scholars Bruce Harkness, Frederick Karl, Jerome Meckier, and Dwight Purdy examine the author's life within the context of his times: the pervasive influence of his Polish background, the impact of the sense of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Hooper, Dan
Summary: Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 HOOPower, Samantha
Summary: Pulitzer Prize winning humanitarian Samantha Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" In this memoir, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. In 2005, her critiques of U.S. foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B POWER POWConrad, Joseph
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2002
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CONConrad, Joseph
Summary: In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConrad, Joseph.
Summary: Compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, Heart of Darkness is far more than just an adventure story. The novel explores deep into the dark regions of the hearts and souls of its characters and into the conflicts prevalent in more "primitive" cultures. It is also a striking picture of the moral deterioration that can result from prolonged isolation. Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 1983
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Burnt By The Sun
Contents: Inner station -- Cardiff giant -- F unit -- A party to the unsound method -- There will be blood -- Goliath -- Rust/Future primitive -- Beacon -- The great American dream machine -- The wolves are running.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Relapse 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BURWeyes Blood
Contents: It's not just me, it's everybody -- Children of the empire -- Grapevine -- God turn me into a flower -- Hearts aglow -- And in the darkness -- Twin flame -- In holy flux -- The worst is done -- A given thing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WEYSummary: The world largely ignored Rwanda's descent into genocide and civil war. With tensions continuing along the Congo-Rwanda border, will history repeat itself? This ABC News program examines new challenges in central and eastern Africa, reporting on the instability created by Hutu guerillas known as the FDLR. The program also analyzes successes and failures that have occurred as Rwanda tries to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Conrad, Joseph
Contents: The nigger of the "Narcissus." -- Typhoon.-- Heart of darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1958
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ConraConrad, Joseph
Summary: Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer written by legendary author Joseph Conrad is widely considered to be two of the top 100 greatest books of all time. These two great classics will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Books America 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conrad 2009Summary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA APOJones, Tobias.
Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER: In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.093 JONSummary: KINGDOM HEARTS III tells the story of the power of friendship and light vs. darkness as Sora and his friends embark on a perilous adventure. Set in a vast array of Disney and Pixar worlds, KINGDOM HEARTS III follows the journey of Sora, an unknowing heir to a spectacular power. Sora is joined by Donald Duck and Goofy to stop an evil force known as the Heartless from invading and overtaking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Games, Call number: GAME PS4 KINSummary: Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon continues his travels from southern to northern Spain, revealing a stunning and informative array of artworks. In this program, he journeys to the provinces surrounding Madrid-where, during the 16th and 17th centuries, many of the world's great artists flourished against a backdrop of imperialism and fervent Catholicism. In Toledo, El Greco's mystical style is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Bhagwati, Anuradha Kristina
Summary: "A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military. Aftera lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career at Harvard University to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BHAGWATI, ANURADHA KRISTINA BHAGigliotti, Jim
Summary: "Who are the people who make our hearts race and our minds spin? Why are they so good at making us fear what goes bump in the night? What are the stories behind the writers who give us goosebumps? Dark Hearts is a collection of fourteen short biographiesof the world's best-known horror writers, including Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, R. L. Stine, Stephen King, Bram Stoker, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GIGSadamoto, Yoshiyuki
Summary: Follows the adventures of Shinji Ikari, a child of the new Earth who pilots Evangelion, a colossal biomechanical weapon, to battle the fearsome Angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: The stories in Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky trace the history of the world from its beginnings in the dreams of the dual god, Ometeotl, to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in Mexico and the fall of the great city Tenochtitlan. In the course of that history we learn about the Creator Twins--Feathered Serpent and Dark Heart of Sky--and how they built the world on a leviathan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2018
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Summary: When David quit his band, he missed his shot at fame. For the past two years he has been trapped in an ordinary Seattle high school life, working summers for his dad's construction business while his former best friends Chance and Eli became the hottest teen pop act in America. Eli's death throws David and Chance back into contact. They rediscover all the little things that once made the two of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUTAlexander, Tasha
Summary: "In the next Lady Emily Mystery The Dark Heart of Florence, critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin must solve a murder with clues leading back to the time of the Medici.In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEShaffer, Anthony
Summary: Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They met with the author to review changes and redactions that they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010