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Action and adventure television programs Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Fiction television programs Judicial error Fiction Manners and customs Murder Investigation Fiction Nurses England Fiction Television crime shows Television series World War, 1914-1918 England FictionBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Agatha Raisin finds her newly married life in shambles when she thinks that her husband James is having an affair, and when he disappears and his suspected mistress is murdered, Agatha joins forces with Sir Charles to find her husband and catch a killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACox, Tom
Summary: "Close Encounters of the Furred Kind" is the follow-up to the" Sunday Times" Top Ten Bestseller "The Good, The Bad, and the Furry." Like "The Good, The Bad, and the Furry," it tells the story of Tom Cox's life with his charismatic cats-- The Bear, Shipley, Ralph, and recent recruit Roscoe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.8 COXToboso, Yana
Summary: Earl Phantomhive and his butler, Sebastian, are called to action by Queen Victoria after a number of her citizens become the victims of some bizarre attacks, but the clues lead them straight to a Indian prince, who appears to have a remarkable butler of his own, and a new rivalry begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLACathcart, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.762 CATSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILAusten, Jane
Summary: "Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a classic novel, featuring delicious recipes from celebrity chefs. In this edition of Jane Austen's regency classic Pride and Prejudice, plan a fancy tea party or book club gathering with recipes for sweet confections and pastries. From maple glazed scones and delicate sugar and spice cake, to berry tartlets and French macaroons....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AUSMacfarlane, Robert
Summary: "A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.23 MACHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOPSummary: Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one our generation's most beloved horror icons. A classically trained actor and talented director, Englund has starred in many well-received movies in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth as well as directing his own feature film.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC HOLSummary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC INLMaher, Kerri
Summary: London, 1938. Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has taken England by storm. The effervescent It Girl of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kick dances and drinks champagne at the hottest nightclubs and attends the horse races with nobility. Billy Hartington, the future Duke of Devonshire, sweeps Kick off her feet, but the obstacles to their love are many. Kick is American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAHEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSClary, Julian.
Summary: "The Bolds are a family of hyenas living as humans in a suburban house. But now their kindness to animal waifs and strays has become legendary, and more and more animals keep turning up to stay!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLASummary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to his epic Saxon Tales saga with The Pagan Lord, a dramatic story of divided loyalties, bloody battles, and the struggle to unite Britain.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cornwell 2014Casey, Jane (Jane E.)
Summary: A year ago, Leo Stone was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life in prison. Now he's been freed on a technicality, and he's protesting his innocence. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent are determined to put Stone back behind bars where he belongs, but the more Maeve digs, the less convinced she is that he did it. Then another woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASAusten, Jane
Summary: "Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as 'A Lady.' Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Tessa Fell's search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London's supernatural underworld, where she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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Summary: Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISSummary: World War I nurse Bess Crawford promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself and put her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Todd 2009Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: 1n a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWShreve, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ShrevGriffiths, Elly.
Summary: The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy?s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith?s passing. But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy?s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021