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Caesar, Julius Fiction Dating (Social customs) Fiction Egypt History 332-30 B.C Fiction Gordianus the Finder (Fictitious character) Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Japanese Americans Fiction Japanese Americans Juvenile fiction Lesbians Fiction Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C Fiction Young adult fictionSaylor, Steven
Summary: Continuing the epic story begun in his "New York Times"-bestselling novel "Roma," Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to the height of Rome's empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: Set against the backdrop of the later Roman Republic, a collection of short mystery tales featuring ancient Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder follows the early career of the classical sleuth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: Julius Caesar, appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate, has pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends. Now Caesar is preparing to leave Rome with his legions to wage a war of conquest against the Parthian Empire. But he has a few more things to do before he goes. Gordianus the Finder, after decades of investigating crimes and murders involving the powerful, has been raised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: "The young Gordianus has been waiting out the chaos in Alexandria, with Bethesda, when he gets a cryptic message from his former tutor and friend, Antipater. Now in Ephesus, as part of Mithridates' entourage, Antipater seems to think that his life is in imminent danger. To rescue him, Gordianus concocts a daring, even foolhardy, scheme to go behind enemy lines and bring Antipater to safety. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYKaylor, Serena
Summary: "A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: "In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essentially retired from his previous profession of "Finder" but even he cannot refuse the call of Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Troubled by dreams foretelling disaster and fearing a conspiracy against the life of Caesar, she had hired someone to investigate the rumors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: Gordianus the Finder is called to a great Villa to investigate the death of the overseer by two slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSaylor, Steven
Summary: Rome, 80 B.C. and Cicero is about to conduct his first important case, the defense of well-heeled farmer Sextus Roscius against the charge of killing his hated father. Gordianus the finder, hired by Cicero to dig up evidence, soon learns why the elder Roscius was lured to his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYPetrus, Junauda
Summary: "A vision of a world where community care and safety are not the jobs of police, based on a protest poem written by Petrus after the police officer who killed Michael Brown was not charged"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETSugiura, Misa
Summary: "When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she's better than a stand-in,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUGSugiura, Misa
Summary: When kids begin to disappear, Momo teams up with the magical fox spirit, Niko, and her friends to confront a dangerous enemy from Shinto legend, Tamamo-no-mae, and embark on a quest to the Sky Kingdom to steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun to save their world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUGSugiura, Misa
Summary: When her family moves to California, Sana falls for the beautiful and smart Jamie Ramirez but struggles with differences between their diverse friend groups, a boy's sweet but unrequited affection, and her father's increasingly obvious affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUGSugiura, Misa
Summary: All Momo wants for her twelfth birthay is an ordinary life, but instead she finds out she is half human, half goddess and must unlock her divine powers to save her mother's life and keep countless evil spirits from escaping Yomi, the land of the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUGBaylor, Byrd.
Summary: Describes the qualities to consider in selecting the perfect rock for play and pleasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BAYNaylor, Gloria.
Summary: Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAYContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINNaylor, Clare
Summary: Painting animal portraits for the rich and famous, London artist Kate Disney meets famous actress Mirabelle Moncur, who hires her to paint her favorite pet lion and encourages her to live a more fulfilling life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAYLawlor, Laurie.
Summary: Living on the nineteenth-century Indiana frontier with his parents and irritable older sister Louise, six-year-old Beansie dreads his first day of school, but his resilience surprises even his sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2004
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC LAWSayler, Britt
Summary: "Every night, a giant pit sucked and slurped up everything... And every night, it slurped me up, too... For one young child, nothing has been the same since losing their father. Words won't fit together. Playing soccer is no longer fun. And every night brings the same terrible dream... a black, slurping pit that looks just like the period their father taught about as a grammar teacher. Periods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAYSoomro, Taymour
Summary: "A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOOTarlow, Ellen
Summary: "What is Bear to do when he wakes up one day to find his Smile gone?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TARDold, Gaylord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2001