Shakespeare, William.
Summary: The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome bringing Tamora, Queen of the Goths as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge, and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism. This macabre, often brilliant tragedy comes from the earliest stage of Shakespeare's dramatic career....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAGabriele, Matthew
Summary: Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry take us through ten centuries, crisscrossing Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. They refute common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality, a brilliant reflection of humanity itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.1 GABDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks, young Trian and old Cormac, he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the island now known as Skellig Michael, an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction FoxOppel, Kenneth
Summary: When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC OPPBrumwell, Stephen
Summary: General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 BRUHarris, Robert
Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARKilmeade, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.5 KILGingrich, Newt.
Summary: Newt Gingrich, former Congressman and student of Civil War history, has written an astounding book giving us an alternate history of the Civil War. On July 10th, 1863, Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington. Six days earlier, General Ulysses S. Grant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GINEisenhower, John S. D.
Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EISStiefvater, Maggie
Summary: Three cousins who are members of an unusual family that possesses the ability to perform miracles are repeatedly sought out for their gifts while they struggle to establish free lives for themselves and navigate the fallout from miracles that happen in ways other than anticipated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STISchwartz, Dana
Summary: Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before--the immortality, Beechams vial--were a figment of her imagination. She doesnt even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCHDaileader, Philip.
Summary: Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 DAICahill, Thomas.
Summary: A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.501 CAHSummary: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University, where she has taught since 2002. The holder of an A.B. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Duke University, she also taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 1Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 2
Brown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROGregory, Philippa
Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREFinn, Peter
Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FINBarry, Sebastian
Summary: When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BARRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: This novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RUNAllende, Isabel
Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLShakespeare, William
Summary: King John of England is pitted against the united powers of France, Brittany, Austria, and the Papacy. Will England be destroyed by his fatal indecision? As alliances are made, broken, and remade, the paranoid and erratic John reveals his weakness and reliance on those around him--including his powerful mother Queen Elinor and Faulconbridge, the cynical and witty bastard son of the dead King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: The unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 ELLLepore, Jill
Summary: In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018