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(Nez Percé Chief) Joseph 1840-1904 Bombay, Sidi Mubarak Travel Nile River Explorers Nile River History 19th century Horror tales, American Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis) 1830-1909 Large type books Nile River Discovery and exploration Nile River Valley Discovery and exploration Sir Burton, Richard Francis 1821-1890 Travel Nile River Speke, John Hanning 1827-1864 Travel Nile RiverGhinsberg, Yossi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pier Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.412 GHIHinds, Gareth
Summary: A volume of graphic novel renderings of some of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known works includes "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 HINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC HINAshcroft, Frances M.
Summary: Looks at the role of electricity in the human body, covering the colorful history of how scientists discovered this role, the current state of knowledge of electrophysiology, and how new discoveries are driving advances in medicine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.014 ASHDuncan, Dayton
Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Contents: CD1. To- (1:48) -- Alone (1:01) -- The city and the sea (3:01) -- The fall of the House of Usher (22:57) -- The pit and the pendulum (30:27) -- CD2. Masque of Red death (16.25) -- The tell-tale heart (13:40) -- The black cat (25:57) -- CD3. The raven (8:15) -- The facts of the case of M. Valdemar (15:15) -- The cask of Amontillado -- The bells (4:02) -- Annabel Lee (2:03) -- Eldorado (:39) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN POE1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POE
Trabucco Zeran, Alia
Summary: "When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zeraan offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 TRADunn, Daisy
Summary: ""A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world."-Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live. When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLINY DUNPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the Elric brothers recklessly attempted to raise their mother from the dead, the horrors they unleashed marked the beginning of a long journey into the darkest corners of the cruelty of mankind. Now, destinies are converging for those who remain to fight for the light of salvation. The hunt for the truth behind truths is growing more desperate, and ruined Ishbal waits at the end of a road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2004
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FULPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Thirteen of Poe's terrifying works are reimagined in new and unexpected ways for modern readers. Poe's own stories are included, so readers can compare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HISMillard, Candice
Summary: For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. Expeditions to find it were stymied by a giant labyrinthine swamp. In the 19th century Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. From the start the two men clashed. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: "When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 IGNMillard, Candice
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy The Nile River is the longest in the world. Its fertile floodplain allowed for rise to the great civilization of ancient Egypt, but for millennia the location of its headwaters was shrouded in mystery....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.2043 MILCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.2043 MILChristie, Agatha
Summary: "Love can propel us to our greatest heights...and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRBowen, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1938
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWYardley, Jonathan.
Summary: This collection of 5 dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 YARSummary: “Madness, but will you say that I am mad? Murder, perhaps you judge too soon. For when you hear my story, you will certainly understand why, very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.” True to the words of master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe, this stunning adaptation brings to life what is perhaps Poe’s best-known short story. Murder, madness, and betrayal from within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: Fighting for life in the death-belt considers the controversial institution of capital punishment in America through the eyes of Stephen Bright, the nations's leading anti-death penalty lawyer. For twenty-five years Bright has defended death row inmates deep in the heart of the nations' death-belt - the Southeastern states where ninety percent of executions occur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.M. Productions 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIGSchoenberg, Claude-Michel
Contents: "Les Miserables": Prologue. -- At the end of the day. -- I dreamed a dream. -- Lovely ladies. -- Fantines' death. -- Master of the house. -- Stars. -- Do you hear the people sing?. -- Heart full of love. -- On my own. -- Drink with me. -- Bring him home. -- Final battle. -- Epilogue: Valjean's dealth. -- Do you hear the people sing? Reprise. -- "Miss Saigon": Overture. -- Heat is on in Saigon....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pickwick International 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MISSummary: Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 SHISummary: "As Camelot basks in peace and prosperity, the dark seeds of destruction are being sown. In the frozen wastelands of the north, men are disappearing without a trace. As King Arthur and his knights undertake a mission into the unknown, they encounter mystical figures, never knowing who they can trust. Morgana is lurking in the shadows, plotting her revenge against King Arthur, enlisting the help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADVPoe, Edgar Allan
Contents: Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- A dream within a dream -- Stanzas : in youth have I known -- A dream -- The happiest day-- the happiest hour -- The lake-- to-- -- Sonnet-- to science -- To-- : the Bowers wherat, in dreams I see -- Fairy-land -- Introduction -- Alone -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- The valley of unrest -- Lenore -- To one in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.309 POESharfstein, Daniel J.
Summary: "Chronicles the epic clash between General Oliver Otis Howard, who took on a mission in the Pacific Northwest to force Native Americans onto reservations, and the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, who refused to leave his ancestral land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 SHAGay, Roxane
Summary: "Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017