Wilson, Frances
Summary: "A biography of the last of the Romantics describes his rags-to-riches life and career as a journalist, translator, essayist and opium addict who inspired generations of writers with his emotional memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DE QUINCEY, THOMAS WILWilson, Frances
Summary: An account of the Titanic's sinking focuses on the story of the ship's owner, revealing the reasons behind his jump and the reprecussions of his actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 WILParkman, Francis
Summary: Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and a sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1943
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 PARSummary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINDillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILLON, MICHAEL DILDillon, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.8927 DILWeil, Franȯis.
Summary: Traces the history of genealogy in the United States, from its early preoccupation with social status and lineage, to a nineteenth-century search for Anglo-Saxon roots, to a twentieth-century acceptance of diversity and the introduction of DNA technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 WEICheng, Franȯis
Summary: Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 844.914 CHEFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations, open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world, now published here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 FRAFrancis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 FraFrankie
Summary: When Frank Faunce looks at the Church, he sees a sleeping giant full of men and women who think that they are born again simply because they repeated a simple prayer years ago. What these people have never learned, Faunce submits, is that Jesus wants to be both Lord and Savior, that either He or Ego will occupy first place in any human's heart. As the author cleverly states, there is not room...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Publishing, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 FRAFuret, Francois
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.4 FURFrancis
Summary: A collection of homilies, speeches, and "messages of the day" that brings together Pope Francis's wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248 FRAFrancis
Summary: The leader of the Catholic Church discusses what the COVID-19 crisis revealed about the cruelty and inequality of society, what it can teach about handling upheaval, and how to make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 FRAFrancis
Summary: A collection of interviews with the newly-elected pope highlights his life, his vocation, and his views on such issues as prayer, celibacy, sex scandals in the church, and Argentina's Dirty War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, POPE RUBFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In "The Church of Mercy," readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, this is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 FRAFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in the future of the Catholic Church in this urgent call to believers of all generations to work together to build a better world. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church and become one of the most popular global leaders. Now, in this extraordinary interview with journalist Thomas Leoncini, His Holiness reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRAFrancis
Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023
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Summary: In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart -- mercy -- which has long been the cornerstone of his faith and is now the central teaching of his papacy. In this conversation with Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli, Francis explains --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRAMilton, Joyce
Summary: "Illus. in full color. Difficult dinosaur names are simplified with phonics."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MILRABELAIS, FRANCOIS
Contents: Francois Rabelais:Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Great v. 22 RabelaisRabelais, Francois
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1952