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American fiction 20th century Bible O.T History of Biblical events Fiction British Broadcasting Corporation History 20th century Fiction British Broadcasting Corporation. FICTION / Biographical FICTION / Historical FICTION / Literary Great Britain Radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting Great Britain History 20th century FictionSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDStanford, Phil
Summary: Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Stafford, Jean
Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStarford, Rebecca
Summary: "A twisting, sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5. But in chasing the secrets of others, how much will she lose of herself?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStafford, Jean
Summary: This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STADiehl, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longstreet Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEStanford, Claire
Summary: "Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASpufford, Francis
Summary: The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUGraham, Cliff.
Summary: In a time of Israel's greatest need, an elite band of King David's warriors known as the Mighty Men are all that stands between their people and destruction at the hands of the ruthless Philistines. Part two of the Lion of War series brings the actions of those heroes and the terror of the ancient battlefields to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACliff, Craig
Summary: Colton Kemp, a department store window-dresser, is at home, watching his beloved wife die in premature childbirth. Tormented by grief, he hatches a plan to make his name and thwart his rival, the silent and gifted Carpenter: over the next sixteen years he will raise his newborn twins in secrecy and isolation, to become human mannequins in the worlds most lifelike window display.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLICliff, Tony
Summary: These cats are on an adventure to find that darn mouse named Sleepy. But Sleepy is a sneaky mouse--he's hard to find. The cats will have to look everywhere: all over town, out by the beach, up in space, and even back in time with the dinosaurs! Can the cats catch that mouse? Even if they don't, at the end of the day, they may just get "sleepy" after all.-- Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLIBurke, Cliff
Summary: "There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal...Then, Theo's dad hits him with a whopper of a surprise...an auditioning-to-be-his-stepmom girlfriend. Theo must find a way to face his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURFarrell, Cliff.
Contents: Stampede in Avalanche Pass -- Cold trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W FARFarrell, Cliff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARFarrell, Cliff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1972
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARLewis, Cliff
Summary: "An anxious, asthmatic boy gets recruited by a girl from the future to launch a climate strike big enough to rewrite history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jolly Fish Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWFarrell, Cliff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARGraham, Cliff.
Summary: In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start and joins a band of soliders led by a warlord named David. Some are loyal to David, but others are only with him for the promise of captured wealth. Over the course of ten days, from snowy mountain passes to sword-wracked battlefields, Benaiah and his fellow mercenaries must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASpufford, Francis
Summary: A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUSpufford, Francis
Summary: "New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUClift, Arthur Denis
Summary: "The Bronze Frog is a violent, fast-paced, global thriller with plot, characters, and action shaped by the author's Navy, intelligence, foreign operations, and White House expertise. The reader joins Commander Linc Walker, a sharp, combat-seasoned Navy SEAL on a clandestine mission against the People's Republic of China, who is betrayed in this mission by leaders in The White House, and who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLIRaiff, Cooper
Summary: When a homesick college freshman attends a party, he spends the night with his sophomore RA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2021