Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope and her trusted right-hand man DS Joe Ashworth face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERSummary: This is a compelling mystery series, inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novel. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. While her manner is sometimes caustic, her single-mindedness gets results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: When a promising high school basketballer (Cornbread) is accused of rape and mistakenly killed by the police, it is up to his 11-year old brother Wilford and his pal Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear Cornbread's name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CORSummary: Northumberland Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her partner, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to unravel four new crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERSummary: Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of the Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Black Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lord 2003Lewis, Sinclair
Summary: Sinclair Lewis's barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. At the center of the novel is Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, who dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWSinclair, Upton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classic 2001
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Summary: For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SINLewis, Sinclair
Summary: A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this work that prophesies the coming of totalitarianism in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classics 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWLewis, Sinclair
Summary: Two of Lewis' novels depict the hipocrisy and complacency of middle-class America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWAnno, Mitsumasa
Summary: Records in drawings the author's journey through northern Europe and his impressions of the land, the people at work and play, and their art, architecture, folklore, and fairy tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins-World 1978
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Anno 1978Lewis, Sinclair
Summary: Contains the full text to three novels by satirist Sinclair Lewis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWLewis, Sinclair
Summary: Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWLewis, Sinclair
Summary: Neil Kingsblood, an average middle-American banker, finds that he has African-American blood, a discovery which takes him to two Americas, one black and one white.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWSinclair, Upton
Summary: The author's famous tale of a Lithuanian family who emigrates to America and is destroyed by exploitation, crushing poverty, and economic despair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIN
Sinclair, Phoebe
Summary: "For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SINSinclair, Upton
Summary: The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Summary: Presents the novel that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry, and affected radical social changes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Sinclair 1994Anie, Sussie
Summary: Moving to a new part of London, Kwasi finds refuge and inspiration in an eclectic and run-down charity shop where he forms an unexpected friendship with its owner, giving each of them a new sense of belonging until local politics threaten to divide them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANIDahl, Arne
Summary: Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of the Swedish Intercrime unit investigate the torturing death of a literary critic whose murderer escaped to Stockholm, a case with sinister ties to a presumed-dead serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHSvenson, Arne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blast Books 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.9365 SveSchaap, Annet
Summary: Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020