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Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette (Chavaniac-Lafayette, France) Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette (Chavaniac-Lafayette, France) Fiction Feature films France Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918 Teatro Large type books Man-woman relationships Relaciones hombre-mujer Teatro War correspondents Fiction World War (1914-1918)Atkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ATKBehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEHSummary: An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NERHering, Marianne.
Summary: Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to 1000 A.D. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOHButler, Robert Olen
Summary: With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft "a ripping good yarn" (Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings. Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches--though that hasn't stopped young men and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTSummary: A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Bohjalian, Chris
Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHRyan, Pam Muǫz.
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RYASummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESYan, Lianke
Summary: The trouble-free lives of the disabled residents of Liven in China are disrupted when a money-hungry county official convinces them to start a traveling freak show so that he can use the proceeds to buy the embalmed corpse of Lenin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTBarrow, Randi G.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivan has escaped from the siege of Leningrad, but when the town he has taken refuge in is occupied by Hitler's troops, he sees his chance to help the partisans he has met--and to rescue two German shepherd puppies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Greene, Graham
Summary: An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Greene, Graham
Summary: While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back in Saigon a young and high-minded American named Pyle begins to channel economic aid to a "Third Force." Caught between French colonialists and the Vietminh, Fowler, the narrator and seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." As young Pyle's policies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: Secret agent Harry Palmer is blackmailed into working for MI5 again on his wildest and most dangerous assignment yet. An insane oil billionaire, intent on destroying Communism by starting a new world war, is close to achieving his goal with the help of the world's largest and most powerful computer. Harry is the only man who may be able to stop him, but as he races from London to Finland to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BILDray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)Butler, Robert Olen
Summary: American spy and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb follows a man who may be a German secret service agent with vital information onto the Lusitania during World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTSummary: In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WINSummary: 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