Summary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAUSummary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERSummary: The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cafe 2016Rissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAmish
Summary: A tale inspired by Hindu mythology is set in a powerful empire in ancient Meluha, where a hero foretold in legend rises to save his people from the threats of a dying river and Chandravanshis terrorism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmish.
Summary: Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westland 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Amish.
Summary: The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path of evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westland
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Summary: Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Lola the hamster is lonely when her parents go out, so she builds an island of soft, snuggly things to make herself feel better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2002
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Summary: Since her parents are too busy in the morning to listen to her say that she loves them, Lola the hamster waits all day long for another opportunity to say the words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Book for Young Readers 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NOROral, Feridun
Summary: When Rabbit wakes up in the middle of winter looking for food, he has to rely on help from his friends to reach the only red apple hanging on a tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORASummary: A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Commuter 2018Adiga, Aravind
Summary: A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Adiga 2020Adiga, Aravind.
Summary: Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize--winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Kroll, Amika
Summary: Girls growing up into women should feel good about who they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021
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Summary: Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIOral, Feridun
Summary: Little Bunny learns to overcome his fear of the dark from his friends, the Moon and the stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: minedtion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORAAkhtar, Amina
Summary: Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life--or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mindy's Book Studio 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2011