Verdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRONelson, Antonya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NELNelson, Antonya.
Contents: Dick -- Strike anywhere -- Flesh tone -- Heart shaped rock -- Rear view -- Only a thing -- Eminent domain -- Some fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELBarber, Antonia
Summary: When the Great Storm-Cat threatens the small English village of Mousehole, only an old fisherman's cat can soothe its fierceness during a dangerous sea venture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1990
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Summary: A debut novel about an exceptionally gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who is trying to come back into his life--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHodgson, Antonia.
Summary: It's 1727. Tom Hawkins prefers wine, women, and cards. But he's honorable and won't pull family strings to get out of debt, not even when faced with the notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol. Within moments of his arrival, Hawkins learns there's a murderer on the loose. He accepts an offer of a room from the mysterious Samuel Fleet, only to find out that it was Fleet's last roommate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014
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Summary: London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t hang and Tom’s damned if he’ll be the first. He may not be much of a gentleman, but he is innocent. He just always finds his way into a spot of bad luck. It’s hard to say when Tom’s troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved, Kitty Sparks — though their neighbors were certainly less...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HODWhite, Antonia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vigaro 1980
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Summary: A novel about the young Jacqueline Bouvier, and about a marriage that almost never happened. At JFK's behest, Lem Billings, Jack's friend and fixer, is courting Jacqueline Bouvier. Only gradually does Jackie realize she is being groomed to be the perfect political wife.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The lives of four artists are forever altered by the desires, protests, and ambitions that lure and unsettle them in this magnetic novel. It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarified bubble, dreaming only of disproving the notion that in art, everything has already been done....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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Summary: "It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women, and cards. But there's a sense of honor there too, and Tom won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt--not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London's notorious debtors' prison:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HODHoneywell, Antonia
Summary: ""Powerful, haunting, and beautiful," (M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts) The Ship is a luminous and genre-defying debut novel that follows a young woman's coming of age in a world where she has no future. London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse ... Lalla has grown up sheltered from the chaos amid the ruins of civilization. But things are getting more dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONBayard, Louis
Summary: "A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton , or fiction--of any era--that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." --A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln , the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYBayard, Louis.
Summary: A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYBayard, Louis
Summary: "A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYBayard, Louis.
Summary: Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYBayard, Inès
Summary: "This astonishing debut inhabits the mind of a young married woman driven to extremes by disgust and dread in the aftermath of a rape. Marie and Laurent, a young, affluent couple, have settled into their large Paris apartment and decide to start trying for a baby. This picture-perfect existence is shattered when Marie is assaulted by her new boss. Deeply shaken by the attack, she discovers she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BayardBayard, Louis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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Summary: In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics, astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night, they meet in secret to avoid the wrath of Queen Elizabeth. But one of the men, Thomas Harriot, has secrets of his own, secrets he shares with one person only: the servant woman he loves. In modern-day Washington, D.C.,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYFantoni, Barry.
Summary: Harry Lipkin, the world's oldest private investigator, takes on the case of Norma Weinberger, a wealthy woman whose belongings are being pilfered by one of her staff, people she employs, trusts, cares for, and treats like family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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Summary: A little prehistoric boy decides to hunt for his own food, and makes a new friend in the process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TANBanyai, Istvan.
Summary: A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Summary: Bird wants to play, but all his animal friends tell him that it is bedtime, and only when they tuck him in and sing a lullaby does he finally fall asleep--briefly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TANBenard, Lacey
Summary: "Counting in two languages is so much fun with our dim sum friends!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bitty Bao, LLC 2022