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Bucharest (Romania) History 20th century Juvenile fiction Dictatorship Fiction Dictatorship Juvenile fiction Espionage Romania History Juvenile fiction Families Romania Juvenile fiction Large type books Man-woman relationships Fiction Revolutions Juvenile fiction Romania History Revolution, 1989 Juvenile fiction World War, 1939-1945 Juvenile fictionSummary: The follow-up to the 2019 feature film in which the Crawley family and Downton staff received a royal visit from the King and Queen of Great Britain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVd Movie DowntonAuth, Jeannine.
Summary: Emmy's mom has a drinking problem that is starting to affect Emmy. Former friends aren't allowed to associate with her anymore, and Emmy doesn't know where to turn for help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morningtide Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUTRuiz, Rudy.
Summary: "Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He'd made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUIModan, Rutu.
Summary: Maya's unique table manners turn the palace upside down when she accepts an invitation to dine with the queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MODHaydock, Sophie
Summary: Amid an opulent society living under the shadow of war are four muses, women whose bodies were shown in intimate detail, depicted by the charming yet controversial artist Egon Schiele. Adele, his passionate and fierce admirer; Gertrude, his sister who survived their blighted childhood but is possessive, single-minded, and jealous; his mistress Vally, a poor young woman from a bad background but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAYCraddock, Curtis
Summary: "In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs is about to be married to a man she has barely heard of, the second son of a dying king in an empire collapsing into civil war. Born without the sorcery that is her birthright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRARuddock, Jesse
Summary: "Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake that borders the unchannelled north -- remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly, Tristan will have to live alone, his youth unprotected and rough. The wild, open place that is all he knows will be overrun by strangers -- strangers inhabiting the lodge that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coach House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUDModan, Rutu
Summary: "When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archeological expedition begun decades earlier--a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father's legacy as a great archeologist after he was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MODSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta.
Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Sepetys, Ruta.
Summary: Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANSummary: It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUN RATED RCowell, Cressida
Summary: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III must rescue his best friend, Fishlegs, from the deadly disease, Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find - a potato. But where will Hiccup find such a thing? He'll have to dodge the terrible Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs, and outwit crazy Hooligans if he's going to be a hero again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC COWRuta, Domenica
Summary: "The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a thought-provoking debut that brings to mind such novels as Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles. In Domenica Ruta's profoundly original debut novel, the end of the world comes every year. Or at least it's supposed to. On May 3, humanity comes together to anticipate the planet's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUTSepetys, Ruta
Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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Summary: "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SEPSepetys, Ruta
Summary: At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SEPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Septys 2019Sepetys, Ruta
Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SEPRush, Norman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Murdock, Mackey.
Summary: Following his discharge from the Confederate Army, Rawls Slaton slowly made his way on foot from North Carolina to the Texas ranch his father earned as a land grant from Sam Houston after the battle of San Jacinto. Now Rawls and his brother Marcus own it, and it's up to them to do their father proud. Rawls' return home was anything but triumphant. As he approached the house, he heard screams --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011