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Summary: When her parents are off traveling the globe, Lenora finds a secret doorway to a library containing all the universe's wisdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000
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Summary: Captain Adam Bolitho, of the 74-gun Athena, sails to the West Indies as flag-captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune, who had been a friend of Adam's uncle, Richard. In the torrid waters of the Caribbean, they take on a renegade foe that knows no honor, offers no quarter, and traffics in human life.--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2003
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Summary: In 1782, in the sequel to Sloop of War, Captain Richard Bolitho takes command of a frigate ordered to the Caribbean to combat French, Spanish, and American forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1998
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Summary: "In 1774, Richard Bolitho is a newly appointed Third Lieutenant, joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny. ... It is amidst the broadside battles and clash of swords that Bolitho learns to accept his new responsibilities as a King's officer."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000
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Summary: In 1793, in the sequel to Passage to Mutiny, Captain Richard Bolitho of the Royal Navy sails from Gibraltar to fight against French forces at Toulon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Summary: n 1802, a brief lull in the Napoleonic Wars allows Vice-Admiral Bolitho to take his crew to the Caribbean, aboard the Achates, on a mission to return the island of San Felipe to the French, in the sequel to A Tradition of Victory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000
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Summary: In 1792, Richard Bolitho fights a gang of smugglers known as The Brotherhood, in the sequel to Honor This Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Summary: In 1774, two friends find themselves promoted to lieutenant in the British Navy and assigned to new crews aboard schooners bound for adventure in the Atlantic fleet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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Summary: Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Amiens in ruins, he must leave the safety of Falmouth.
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Summary: In 1796, in the sequel to Form Line of Battle! Captain Richard Bolitho uses his 74-gun ship to chase the French during blockade duty off France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Summary: The sequel to Signal--Close Action relates how, after the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, Richard Bolitho helps recover merchantmen and keep the French out of the Baltic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Summary: In 1793, Bolitho and the British warship Hyperion are trapped by the French in the Mediterranean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Summary: Captain Richard Bolitho is placed in charge of the flagship of a squadron attempting to force Britain's entry into the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Summary: As the American Revolution rages on the mainland, the British Navy prepares for action at sea. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the navy must maintain its blockade of Washington's vital military supplies. Caught up in the turmoil, junior officer Richard Bolitho finds himself having to make momentous decisions in the heat of battle—decisions that could affect the lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1998
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Summary: Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer stationed there. Due to the slave trade being declared illegal, ships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2011
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Summary: In 1772, sixteen-year-old British midshipman Richard Bolitho undergoes a severe initiation into the game of seamanship, intercepts and destroys a band of vicious pirates, and becomes involved with smugglers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKent, Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSummary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 1919: WWI has just ended, old imperial empires have collapsed and Europe is swept up in a wave of modern ideas. Young Doerte Helm arrives at the newly-founded Bauhaus art school in Weimar thrilled by the innovative approach of its director, the architect Walter Gropius. Like so many others, she becomes a true disciple of the new movement but something more to Gropius as they fall in love. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAUSworder, Zeno
Summary: "One boy's parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son's life. But what happens next is unexpected. What does it mean when your parents are different? With humor and pathos, Sworder reflects on the strange nature of giving and receiving love and celebrates those parents who embrace a hard life for themselves in the hope of a better life for their children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE SWOSummary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009