MacLeod, Alistair.
Summary: Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. Even his older brother, Calum, a nearly destitute alcoholic living on Toronto's skid row, has been scarred by another tragedy. But, like all his clansman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: A novel of sordid living and violent death in Long Island society of the 1920's. The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, agent and friends and associates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREFreeman, Brian
Summary: Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride's relationship with current lover, and fellow detective, Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go to a time when Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation. Janine Snow was the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREWilhelm, Kate.
Summary: Eugene, Oregon, attorney Barbara Holloway sets off to Belize to help a Haitian woman prove her identity. But what Holloway knows is only the tip of the iceberg in what turns out to be one of her most complex, compelling, and dangerous cases yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILHooper, Elise
Summary: A tale inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott's youngest sister finds young May longing to study art outside of the confines of her Concord home before turning down a marriage proposal and pursuing an identity in contrast to the spoiled and worldly character of Amy in her sister's famed novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P HOOSummary: A black hockey player hopes to be drafted into the NHL, but his dreams are threatened by the racial tensions in his Nova Scotia community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Light Year Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACRSummary: Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STAFreeman, Brian
Summary: "Jonathan Stride's best friend, Steve Garske, makes a deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. The police dig up Steve's yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull. With suspicion in the murder pointing at him, Stride finds himself off the case and on leave from the Duluth Police. His only ally in clearing his name is his wife, Serena."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Freeman 2020McNees, Kelly O'Connor.
Summary: In the summer of 1855 and the notion of making a living as a writer is still a far-off dream for Louisa. The Alcott family, destitute as usual, moves to a generous uncle's empty house in Walpole, New Hampshire, for the summer. Here, a striking but pensive Louisa meets Joseph Singer. But just as she begins to open her heart, she discovers that Joseph may not be free to give his away. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCNMcNees, Kelly O'Connor.
Summary: The beloved author begins a love affair that would threaten her writing career--and inspire the story of Jo and Laurie in "Little Women."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McNees 2010Griffiths, Elly.
Summary: When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson who thinks they may be the bones of a child called Lucy who has been missing for ten years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRILawrence, Mike
Summary: "Avani is the new kid in town, and she's not happy about it. Everyone in school thinks she's weird, especially the girls in her Flower Scouts troop. Is it so weird to think scouting should be about fun and adventure, not about makeovers and boys, boys, boys? But everything changes when Avani is 'accidentally' abducted by a spunky alien named Mabel. Mabel is a scout too--a Star Scout. Collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAWEvans, Luke
Summary: Tells the story of William Moulton Marston who, inspired by his wife, Elizabeth and their live-in lover, Olive, created Wonder Woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PROWilhelm, Kate.
Summary: The peace and quiet of attorney Barbara Holloway's retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy calls to her as she walks along a deserted beach. Frantically he leads her to a cabin deep in the woods where his mother lies senseless and battered--clearly left for dead. Barbara runs for help, but by the time she returns with the police and medics both mother and son are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWarren, Mark
Summary: Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed - Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPGriffiths, Elly
Summary: "Norfolk is suffering from record summer heat when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery--a downed World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot, and DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. When the remaining members of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRISummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARCantor, Jillian
Summary: When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of the millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2006