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(Fictitious character) Sharpe, Richard Boston (Mass.) History 20th century Fiction France History Medieval period, 987-1515 Fiction Great Britain Humorous stories LeVendeur, Catherine (Fictitious character) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Secret societies Secret societies Fiction Women detectives France FictionSummary: In 1818 India, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are traveling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angélique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops : an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. acting as agents for 2 entertain Video Ltd. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHANewman, Sharan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BellaRosaBooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWO'Malley, Kevin
Summary: In this humorous take-off of "The Bremen Town Musicians," four animals that aspire to make it big as comedians leave their owners and seek their fortunes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE O'MALLEYO'Malley, Kevin
Summary: Four separate stories tell, in words and cartoons, the surprising history and activities of the ordinary backpack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OMAO'Malley, Kevin
Summary: Cooperatively writing a story for school, a girl imagines a king and queen who have a baby named Sweet Piper who can talk to birds, while a boy names the baby Sweet Viper and gives him super-strength, cool wrestling moves, and a motorcycle and sunglasses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E OMAMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: "John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCO'Malley, Kevin
Summary: The orderly Sweet-Williams are dismayed at their son's fondness for the messy pastime of gardening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC O'MalNewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APENewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWO'Malley, Daniel
Summary: "In this spirited sequel to the acclaimed The Rook, Myfanwy Thomas returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert epic -- and slimy -- supernatural war. When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers--and the bureaucratic finesse--to get the job done. Facing her greatest challenge yet, Rook Myfanwy Thomas...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMAO'Malley, Daniel.
Summary: A high-ranking member of a secret organization that battles supernatural forces wakes up in a London park with no memory, no idea who she is, and with a letter that provides instructions to help her uncover a far-reaching conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMAO'Malley, Kevin
Summary: When something lands on one of the moons of the planet Jurassica, Captain Raptor and his spaceship crew go to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Pub. Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC O'MalO'Malley, Thomas
Summary: "A serial killer stalks the streets of 1950s Boston--and two friends take it upon themselves to take him down. Post-war Boston is down on its luck and looking for change. A year after the Brink's Robbery--the largest robbery in the history of the United States--Boston is known more for its seedy underbelly than for its rich, historical past. The winter of 1951 is the worst in recent memory, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMAO'Malley, Thomas
Summary: In 1950's Boston, the Irish Republican Army is running guns and killing witnesses. Cal and Dante are committed to stopping them. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks--tarred, feathered and shot to death--it appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed. However, Cal O'Brien's cousin, Boston PD detective Owen Lackey, recognizes the murder style as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMAMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: Follows an all-female NASCAR team, sponsored by Vagenya--a new product that claims to be "like Viagra, but for women," and their male driver, Badger Jenkins, a sexy bad boy who takes them all for a wild ride.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPAppelfeld, Aharon
Summary: Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Appelfeld 2020Summary: An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOMO'Malley, Daniel
Summary: "September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them, breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'MAO'Malley, Daniel
Summary: Myfanwy Thomas returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert an epic and slimy supernatural war. When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers, and the bureaucratic finesse to get the job done. Facing her greatest challenge yet, Rook Myfanwy Thomas must broker a deal between two bitter adversaries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'MAO'Malley, Kevin
Summary: Bruno, a young rhinoceros who is late for school, chases his homework paper through the big city streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1993