Ruge, Eugen
Summary: An enthralling story of an East German family through the long years of communism and its aftermath, this novel flows both back and forth in time, creating a panoramic view of a family's saga and a country that has vanished into memory and history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGMartínez, Rueben
Summary: A collection of seven traditional tales from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain retold in English and Spanish. Includes notes about each story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MARRubel, David.
Summary: In Depression-era New York City, construction workers at the Rockefeller Center site help a family in need--a gift that is repaid years later in the donation of an enormous Christmas tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E RUBRubel, Nicole.
Summary: Ernestine O'Reilly comes from Ireland to Texas as a mail-order bride, but when she meets the man she is supposed to marry, she ends up deciding to be a cowboy instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC RubelSummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRSummary: Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight boxing champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1960
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGallico, Paul
Summary: Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGallen, Michelle
Summary: "Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGallen, Michelle
Summary: Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSummary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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Summary: A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGGodden, Rumer
Summary: A story of Rumer Godden's life after her return from Indai to England with her daughters in 1945, the period from war's end to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989
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Summary: "In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story between newly observant California-girl Leah and ultra-Orthodox widower Yaakov from An Unorthodox Match. From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGRubay, Donnell.
Summary: True story of a brave dog who accompanied John Muir on an exploration of glacial areas in Alaska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 MUIGruber, Michael
Summary: Rookie cop Tito Morales arrives at the Trianon Hotel in time to see a wealthy oilman plunge ten stories and impale himself on a nearby fence. Soon Morales is joined by detective Jimmy Paz. Together Paz and Morales enter the hotel and discover, in the dead man's room, a most unusual suspect, an otherworldly woman by the name of Emmylou Dideroff. She emerges from a rapturous, prayerlike state and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRURagen, Naomi.
Summary: " In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGTruhen, Aidan
Summary: "In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. All is good in the life of Jack Price. His drug operation is the Amazon of cocaine trafficking, and no one can breach his complex security system. But then: his downstairs neighbor is professionally executed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRURagen, Naomi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGRudden, Dave
Summary: A young orphan learns that monsters can grow out of the shadows in our world, and there is an ancient order of knights who keep them at bay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION RUDRubin, Adam
Summary: Si quieres ser amigo de un dragón, los tacos son la clave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 RUB SPANISHRubin, Adam
Summary: Animals present hand slapping skills to readers, just in time for the annual high five contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: "Here are six thrilling stories--ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to adventure--set in six different worlds, featuring artwork from six different illustrators."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023