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Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction Ireland Social life and customs Fiction Knights and knighthood Fiction Large type books Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) Fiction Middle Ages Fiction Ship captains Fiction Ship physicians Fiction South China Sea Region FictionSummary: Born to dance: "A break-a-leg tale of an understudy turned Broadway star"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: After eight years on life-support, Charlie Manx finally dies and the news hits Vic hard; she can't believe it's over... and with good reason. Soon Manx is back and desperate for revenge against the woman who put him in critical condition, and her whole family -- but especially her son -- is under threat. Allies new and old on both sides are ready to battle for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NOSSummary: Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, has his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NOSGrimaldi, Virginie.
Summary: Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle dans laquelle elle s'est enfermée. A 17 ans, Chloé a des rêves plein la tête mais a choisi d'y renoncer pour aider sa mère. Elle cherche de l'affection auprès des garçons, mais cela ne dure jamais. Comme le carrosse de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018
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Summary: "Emma and Agathe are sisters. They were thick as thieves when they were young but have always been as different as can be. Agathe, the younger sister, is disorderly, chaotic, and fiery. Five years older, Emma has always been the more mature sister, the defender, the protector, the worrier. Their relationship as adults is scarred by a tragedy that transformed their happy, ordinary childhoods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2024
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Summary: A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'BRO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: As Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are on their way home to report their latest victory to the government, they are menaced by those out to capture Maturin for his actions against the French intelligence network in the New World
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1992
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Summary: Ship's doctor Stephen Maturin, a British intelligence agent, stands as the sole bulwark against the sabotage of his friend Captain Jack Aubrey's mission in Malta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Jack Aubrey, a former sea-officer in the British Navy and still bitter about his court-martial, agrees to take command of his old ship, the Surprise, which was sold to Dr. Stephen Maturin, who obtained a letter of marque to the use the ship as a privateer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: During the Napoleonic wars, British naval captain Jack Aubrey, charged with capturing the French islands of Reunion and Mauritius, must first cope with his fellow commanders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Imprisoned by the German army in France, an artist and espionage agent endures regular beatings and seeks to retain his sanity by minutely examining his life, which is marked by an alcoholic mother and work as an art forger to escape starvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, ships surgeon and intelligence agent, return to set sail for the South China Sea on a diplomatic mission intended to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay Princes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: 1st American ed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1993
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'BriO'Brien, Dylan
Summary: After being bittten by a werewolf while wandering in the woods, a high school social outcast gains supernatural abilities and attempts to maintain a normal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TEEO'Brien, Edna
Summary: "I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brien, Edna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brien, Edna.
Summary: Collects short stories depicting restless, searching people set in Dublin, London, and New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brien, Flann
Summary: Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the writings of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 1999
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Summary: Traces James's journey during the Middle Ages in England from inexperienced page at the age of seven to knighthood at the age of twenty-one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 1998