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Rooney, Kathleen

Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROO

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Summary: It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded in a crippled spacecraft 205,000 miles from Earth, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE APO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Apollo 2005

Summary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019

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Kelly, Martha Hall

Summary: "On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kelly 2016

Carter, Michaela

Summary: "As Leonora and Max embark on remarkable journeys together and apart, the full story of their tumultuous and passionate love affair unfolds, spanning time and borders as they seek to reunite and reclaim their creative power in a world shattered by war. When their paths cross with Peggy Guggenheim, an art collector and socialite working to help artists escape to America, nothing will be the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Summary: The entire Granada Television series, a collection of 41 thrilling episodes packed with mystery and suspense.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV SHE

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Summary: Readers will find all the short stories from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, with a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger's insightful biographies of Holmes, Watson, and Conan Doyle; history lovers will revel in the wealth of Victorian literary and cultural details; Sherlockian fanatics will puzzle over tantalizing new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOY

Summary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PUB

Standish, Ali

Summary: "What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children called Baskerville Hall? When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STA

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STA

Faye, Lyndsay

Summary: Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAY

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Buhler, Cynthia von

Summary: "Unappreciated at her father's acclaimed detective agency, the fabulous, rabbit-loving Minky Woodcock straps on her gumshoes in order to uncover a magical mystery involving noted author Arthur Conan Doyle and world-famous escape artist, Harry Houdini."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUH

Steel, Danielle.

Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Laestadius, Ann-Helén

Summary: "On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa-daughter of Sámi reindeer herders-sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAE

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens head to Ladakh, a territory in northern India, to help save the elusive and critically endangered snow leopard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Steel, Danielle.

Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Steel, Danielle.

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Summary: A compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel's beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata's enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Summary: World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ART

Summary: Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship - at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Chen, Katherine J.

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Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chen

Truong, Monique T. D.

Summary: Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRU

Berry, Julie

Summary: The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Berry 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BER

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BER

Austin, Lynn N.

Summary: "In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith. Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC AUS

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC AUS

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Austin

Summary: Follows a group of soldiers through the Battle of the Bulge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAT

McNees, Kelly O'Connor

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Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

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