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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Fiction Germany History 1918-1933 Fiction Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction Great Britain Social life and customs 1918-1945 Fiction Politics and government Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction Twentieth century Fiction United States United States History 1913-1921 Fiction World War, 1914-1918 FictionGreenspan, Alan
Summary: The former Federal Reserve Board chairman reveals the financial close call that nearly resulted in an economic disaster after September 11, his efforts to safeguard American interests, and the personal and educational history that informed his choices.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.11092 GREDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs. Written by Don Knotts's brother-in-law and featuring extensive unpublished interviews with those closest to both men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 DE VLagercrantz, David
Summary: Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage to ask out Julie, the pretty assistant at the tailor's. Tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing, Corell is torn between admiration for the dead man's genius and disgust...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAGRickman, Alan
Summary: "Harry Potter and Sense and Sensibility actor Alan Rickman builds upon his legacy as a world-class actor, a tireless political activist, an avid traveler, and more through his diaries--a twenty-five-year passion project in which Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. Alan Rickman remains the one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre in the American and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 271.3 COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 271.3 FrancisPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Mystery, horror, murder and madness--Edgar Allan Poe's stories are famous for their ability to shock and intrigue. From the nightmarish world of the Pit and the Pendulum to the shrewd calculations of August Dupin, their power is undiminished even today. This release also includes some of the author's best-known poetry, including the Raven and Annabel Lee, as well as a specially-written...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to the remarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 GROFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTFrazier, Charles
Summary: After marrying a Mississippi landowner in hopes of living a life of security, Varina Howell finds her expectations upended when her husband is appointed as the leader of the Confederacy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFollett, Ken.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLGoodwin, Daisy
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC GOOReynard, Sylvain.
Summary: Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REYBrown, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROBrown, Dan
Summary: "In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science" --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROIggulden, Conn.
Summary: After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal line, the House of York, begins their quest to oust him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGGramont, Nina de
Summary: London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O'Dea became Archie Christie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman's marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRAKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KING, CORETTA SCOTT KinShlaes, Amity.
Summary: A biography of Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COOLIDGE, CALVIN SHLEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction EwenShakespeare, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAMcBride, James
Summary: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023