Berlioz, Hector
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 1999
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DAMTector, Amy
Summary: Jess Kendall wants to make a good impression on her new boss at Canada's Dominion Archives and thinks she's hit the jackpot when she finds some mysterious letters from the First World War. Setting out to unravel their story, she starts researching in the Archive's art vault. There, however, she stumbles across the body of a colleague. When Jess makes the connection between the letters, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TECTobar, Héctor
Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASmalls-Hector, Irene.
Summary: As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMAShecter, Ben.
Summary: A boy and his bear friend enjoy the pleasures of autumn as they prepare for winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Shecter 1993Spector, Craig.
Summary: Paul Kelly is a firefighter and a paramedic who has seen tragedy a thousand times; it has never been his own. Until now. A shocking crime. A loved one, brutally murdered. The killer, a teen sociopath whose dead eyes stare in sullen silence. Paul does not want blood or vengeance. He wants to know why. Where terrible truth lurks in the lies. The price paid to answer A QUESTION OF WILL.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Aguilar Camín, Héctor
Summary: A drunken confession. Years dissolve in a blur of sex, drugs, and violence. With echoes of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Héctor Aguilar Camín's Day In, Day Out explores the lives of two darkly alluring sisters and the men pulled into their orbit. while attending the funeral of an old acquaintance, dissolute writer Serrano runs into a former rival, a doctor of criminology known simply as el...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMFox, Hester
Summary: "In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOXFox, Hester
Summary: Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXYoung, Hester.
Summary: "From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUFactor, Katherine
Summary: "The year is 1915, and YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands. You have just arrived in Bali, Indonesia with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? Your trek through the mysterious Balinese jungle might lead you to a top secret spy school, but if you leave now, you will miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC FACAguilar Camín, Héctor
Summary: "This novel marks the long-awaited arrival in English of a masterful voice in Mexican and noir fiction "Death in Veracruz "is a gritty and atmospheric noir centered on the so-called oil wars of the late 1970s, which pitted the extremely powerful and corrupt government-owned oil cartel PEMEX against the agrarian landowners in the coastal regions of Southern Mexico. This novel, translated for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMEcton, Emily
Summary: When their elderly owner goes to the hospital, Butterbean the dachshund, Walt the cat, Oscar the mynah bird, and rats Marco and Polo plan a robbery to support themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ECTBrowne, Hester.
Summary: London gardener Amy Wilde falls for a stranger she meets at a friend's party and is astonished to learn he is a prince, a situation that leads to a scandalous engagement and Amy's doubts about whether she will enjoy life as a royal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFox, Hester
Summary: In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction FoxFox, Hester
Summary: "In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters -- Catherine, Lydia and Emeline -- flee Boston for their new country home, Willow Hall. The estate seems sleepy and idyllic, but a subtle menace creeps into the atmosphere. Remnants of a dark history that call to Lydia, and to the youngest, Emeline. All three daughters will be irrevocably changed by what follows, but none...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXBrowne, Hester.
Summary: A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school's snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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Summary: Hilarious and warmhearted, this "deliciously addictive" (Cosmopolitan) debut romantic comedy stars a woman who goes from doormat to diva when she sets up shop as the ultimate freelance girlfriend. Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has helped her get far in life or in love. When she gets fired -- again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2006
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Summary: "The dead won't bother you if you don't give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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Summary: Entreated by her grandmother to help reform playboy Prince Nicolas, girlfriend-for-hire Melissa is supported in her endeavor by her fiance, but finds the task more daunting than anticipated when her client changes her romantic perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrowne, Hester.
Summary: With the Little Lady Agency doing a booming business back home, Melissa joins her dashing American boyfriend, Jonathan Riley, for an extended holiday in Manhattan. But she's soon out of her depth among Jonathan's hard-charging friends and his interfering ex-wife. And while she's all for shopping and sight-seeing, a covert work opportunity is an irresistible temptation -- a project that soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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Summary: "With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXFox, Hester
Summary: Accepting a dream job at the Harlowe House estate museum in New England, Augusta Podos discovers a Harlowe daughter who was almost completely removed from the family historical record and digs deeper, awakening a sinister power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022