Amore, Anthony M.
Summary: Documents the extraordinary life and crimes of the heiress-turned-revolutionary who, in 1974, became the only woman to pull off a major art heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DUGDALE AMOCrigger, C. K.
Summary: "Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home . . . The bank president declares the loan in arrears and informs January the bank is taking everything except the clothes on her back. Devastated by Shay's death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRICrigger, C. K.
Summary: "It's hard to deny friends asking for help -- even when it means stepping headlong into danger. As a sort of left-over deputy from a previous adventure, January Billings is compelled to answer the call when a valuable gun is stolen from the local mercantile, and the storekeeper viciously assaulted. The town marshal is out of action and the sheriff is an ineffectual fool. What else can she do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALCrigger, C. K.
Summary: "When January Billings receives a letter informing her not only of the death of a grandfather she knew nothing about, but also that a meeting with his attorney would be to her best advantage, she is both angry and intrigued. Eli Pasco convinces her to follow up on the matter. A second note warning her to stay away or else it might "prove bad for her health" only makes the decision easier....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Viva la revolucion! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUECrigger, C. K.
Summary: "January Billings is starting over after bringing her husband's murderer to justice when a stranger shows up at her ranch door. The sheriff, weaseling out of his duties, has sent Eli Pasco to enlist January's help in recovering a horse that's been stolen from him by a young girl. Eli hadn't expected the deputy to be a woman, and he's none too pleased with having to deal with her. Even so, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: British rock band the Who performs at the Isle of Wight Festival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WHOKeyes, Marian
Summary: 'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Keyes 2014Summary: Jeannette Rankin held many positions and worked for many causes during her life. She was a social worker, advocate for women’s suffrage, and the first woman in the United States elected to a national office when most American women did not yet have the right to vote. Sent to the House of Representatives in 1916 by the voters of Montana, Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Guess Who (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1. These eyes -- Laughing -- Undun -- No time -- American woman -- No sugar tonight ; New mother nature -- Hand me down world -- Share the land -- Bus rider -- Do you miss me darlin' -- Hang on to your life -- Albert Flasher -- Broken -- Rain dance -- Sour suite -- Heartbroken bopper -- Runnin' back to Saskatoon -- Follow your daughter home -- Disc 2. Orly -- Glamour boy -- Star baby --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GUEGuess Who (Musical group)
Contents: These eyes -- Laughing -- Undun -- No time -- American woman -- No sugar tonight / New Mother Nature -- Bus rider -- Share the land -- Do you miss me Darlin? -- Hang on to your life.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records 1971
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The courage to persevere. Isabel Allende ; Kelly Stone ; Jako ; Cheri Honkala ; Cora Lee Johnson ; Mary Pipher ; Rhea Seddon ; Faith Popcorn ; Michele Lee -- The courage to listen to your heart. Judith Orloff ; Barbara Brennan ; Susan Winston ; Janelle Goetcheus ; Lynne Twist ; Rebecca Black ; Barbara Trent ; Elizabeth Pirruccello Newhall -- The courage to challenge. Anita Roddick ; Kory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help MartinWare, Susan
Summary: An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD-MP3 324.6 WareKeyes, Marian.
Summary: Surviving an illness that kept her hospitalized for months, Stella Sweeney discovers that a successful book has been published about her case that compels her to relocate to New York and pursue a career as a self-help memoirist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEYEstés, Clarissa Pinkola.
Summary: The author's premise is that within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Here, the author unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 ESTOstler, Catherine
Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OSTLinett, Andrea
Summary: Trendsetter Andrea Linett has that rare ability to distill fashion talk into advice that everyone can follow, and in this book she shares the style wisdom she's gathered over years of working in the fashion industry. Here is only the content that matters: wardrobe classics, leather, denim, suits, dressing in black and white, dressing up, getting the right fit, layering, accessories, and hair....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 LINPierce, Tamora.
Summary: On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIEMorton, Andrew
Summary: Before she was the woman who enticed a king from his throne, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish girl from Baltimore. Morton shows how she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine, taking us through Wallis's romantic adventures in Washington, China, and London. "Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINDSOR MORDolnick, Edward
Summary: As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.94 DOLKing, David C.
Summary: ""Ahlaan bikum fi eamman"-Welcome to Oman, a country of contrasts. Located on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, Oman straddles the old and the new, the traditional with the modern. Camels and horses vie with cars and buses for room on the roads. Mosques made for worshipers share the land with motels made for tourists. Multiple cups of kahwa, or coffee mixed with cardamom, are served...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 953.53 KINZimmerman, James M.
Summary: "In 1923 Shanghai, native and foreign travelers alike are enthralled by the establishment of a new railway line to distant Peking. With this new line comes the Peking Express, a luxurious express train on the cutting edge of China's continental transportation. Among those drawn to the train are oil heiress Lucy Aldrich, journalist John Benjamin Powell, and vacationing Army Majors Roland Pinger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 ZIMEgan, Timothy
Summary: "A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023