Summary: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, the 20-man crew set out in three small boats for South America, almost 3,000 miles away. Three months later, only eight were left alive. This book shares a fantastic saga of survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 PHIPhilbrick, Nathaniel
Summary: "The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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Summary: "The National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea presents an account of the complicated middle years of the American Revolution that shares lesser-known insights into the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 PHIBjörklund, Maggie
Contents: Dark side of the heart -- Walking -- Bottom of the well -- The road to Samarkand -- Fro fro heart -- The unlucky -- Name in the sand -- Missing at sea -- Ashes -- Amador -- Teach me how to say goodbye.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BJOCallahan, Steven.
Summary: ' Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.709 WHEVarious Artists.
Contents: Shotgun (Jr. Walker & the All Stars) -- I can't help myself ; It's the same old song (Four Tops) -- I want you back ; ABC (Jackson 5) -- You can't hurry love ; You keep me hangin' on ; Where did our love go (Diana Ross & the Supremes) -- The tears of a clown ; Mickey's monkey (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) -- He was really saying something (The Velvelettes) -- Ain't too proud to beg ; The way...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MOTPerri, Christina.
Contents: Trust -- Burning gold -- Be my forever (featuring Ed Sheeran) -- Human -- One night -- I don't wanna break -- Sea of lovers -- The words -- Lonely child -- Run -- Butterfly -- Shot me in the heart -- I believe.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PERMove (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1 The original mono album remastered Yellow rainbow -- Kilroy was here -- (Here we go round) -- The lemon tree -- Weekend -- Walk upon the water -- Flowers in the rain -- Hey Grandma -- Useless information -- Zing went the strings of my heart -- The girl outside -- Fire brigade -- Mist on a Monday morning -- Cherry Blossom clinic -- You're the one I need -- Winter song -- The fugitive --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Esoteric Recordings 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOVCallahan, Steven.
Summary: Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2002
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Summary: An anthology of original stories featuring a science fiction and fantasy romp through pirate-infested seas. The settings of these stories vary from the traditional 17th century Caribbean glory years of piracy to the frozen seas off colonial Boston to unnamed far future oceans to deep space itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend... and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away - into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destiny... A wealthy businessman with Irish blood, Trevor Magee has come to Ardmore to build a theater - and uncover the secrets hidden in his family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSummary: An anthology of modern horror fiction features tales from twenty-five masters of the genre, with such selections as Stephen King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Dan Chaon's "The Bees," and Peter Straub's "Little Red."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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Summary: Stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea--while taking us to the heart of what is means to be human.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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Contents: Just look at us now -- Nothing is real -- Younger years -- Mourning in America -- You break my heart -- Blindness -- One more for the road -- Big time -- A sea of roses -- Unwinnable war -- I've been loving you -- All the things....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MILContents: The man with the golden arm -- Jazz devil -- Civilization -- Set the controls for the heart of the pelvis -- The snowball effect -- The sun and the sea -- The big bamboozle -- I got clothes -- Come hell or high water -- Something wicked this way comes -- The long way back again -- Up in the air -- 007, a fantasy Bond theme -- Sweet misery -- The hummingbird -- Parade - magazine -- From her to...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ADAElenbaas, Adam.
Contents: God's bathroom floor -- Take this cup -- Limbo in Lydia -- La purga -- Achra/arachna-phobia -- Being of one mind -- Shape shifting -- On the banks of Lake Wobegon -- Healing christian wounds -- The voice of one in the desert -- The walking woman -- Sins of the fathers -- La dieta -- Pray without ceasing -- Playing Indian -- The word becomes flesh -- Entrainment -- Virgin star of the sea -- Sins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2010
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Summary: "In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and lively characters-a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat- dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river's light. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, discovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.36 SCIVoskamp, Ann
Summary: "Heartache, grief, suffering, obstacles, they all come in waves. There is no controlling life's storms; there is only learning the way to walk through the waves. In WayMaker, bestselling author Ann Voskamp hands us a map that makes meaning of life, that shows the way through to the places we've only dreamed of reaching, by a way we never expected. Voskamp reveals how God is present in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 VOSFlock, Elizabeth
Summary: "In twenty-first-century India, tradition is colliding with Western culture, a clash that touches the lives of everyday Indians from the wealthiest to the poorest. While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing the nation's development, so too are pop culture and technology--an uneasy fusion whose impact is most evident in the institution of marriage. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 FLOMiller, Megan
Summary: Max, "Inky," and Luke are the youngest members of a secret underwater society dedicated to protecting the books and artifacts of their home from evil invaders. They call themselves the S.Q.U.I.D. Squad, and they never turn down a dangerous adventure. So when an army of rogue zombies finds their hidden aquatic outpost, it is up to the S.Q.U.I.D. Squad to create the powerful conduit that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2020
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Contents: trust (3:31) -- burning gold (3:43) -- be my forever (feat. ed sheeran) (3:19) -- human (4:10) -- one night (3:04) -- i dont wanna break (3:52) -- sea of lovers (3:35) -- the words (4:13) -- lonely child (3:42) -- run (4:18) -- butterfly (3:47) -- shot me in the heart (3:42) -- i believe (4:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Records 2014
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Summary: "The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023