Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Summary: "Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANSummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV IWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Balancing suspense and satire as deftly as the scale of justice, Horace Rumpole tirelessly defends the downtrodden while undressing the upper classes. This 8-DVD pack contains all episodes of seasons 9-14.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUSSummary: Balancing suspense and satire as deftly as the scale of justice, Horace Rumpole tirelessly defends the downtrodden while undressing the upper classes. This 7-DVD pack contains all episodes of seasons 1-4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RUMSummary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOBagnold, Enid
Summary: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BagnoldWheeler, Richard S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FORGE 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHESummary: The story is about one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history: Dennis Nilsen. Known as the "kindly killer", Nilsen was an unassuming civil servant who became Britain's most prolific serial killer of the time. The chilling true-crime series delves into Nilsen's emotionally elusive psyche after his arrest in 1983.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeMortimer, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORGappah, Petina
Summary: Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPWall, Kathryn R.
Summary: Private investigator Bay Tanner's business and romantic life takes a perilous turn when a call from her housekeeper's son Bobby hints that a recent hit-and-run may really have been a murder and that the victim may not have been the intended target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALMustian, Kelly
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Mortimer, John Clifford
Contents: Rumpole à la carte -- Rumpole and the summer of discontent -- Rumpole and the right to silence -- Rumpole at sea -- Rumpole and the quacks -- Rumpole for the prosecution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Pub. 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MORMortimer, John Clifford
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBlasco, Serena
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series BlascoMortimer, John
Contents: Rumpole of the Bailey -- The trials of Rumpole -- Rumpole's return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMortimer, John Clifford
Summary: His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MORPrice, Eugenia.
Summary: A story of faith and courage that follows the struggle of James Gould's son Horace to find his own place in life. Reaching manhood in the tumultuous years before the Civil War, Horace returns to St. Simons and finds himself disheartened by the intolerance on his beloved island. However, he wins the heart of lovely neighbor Deborah Abbott, who adores her "Mr. Gould" and becomes his wife, despite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Pub. Company 2012
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Summary: Shot up and left for dead, Sheriff Quinn Colson has revenge on his mind. With the help of his new wife Maggie, rehabilitation, and sheer force of will, he's walking again, eager to resume his work as a southern lawman and track down those responsible for his attempted murder. But someone is standing in his way: an interim sheriff, appointed by the newly elected Governor Vardaman, the man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKAtkins, Ace
Summary: "The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem. Years ago, Colson's late uncle had put the clan's patriarch in prison, but now he's getting out, with revenge, power, and family business on his mind. To make matters worse, a shady trucking firm with possible ties to the Gulf Coast syndicate has moved into Tibbehah,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ATKAtkins, Ace
Summary: "Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021