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Emperor of Rome Augustus 63 B.C.-14 A.D Drama Female friendship Female friendship Fiction Italy Naples Naples (Italy) History 20th century Fiction Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C Drama Rome History, Military 265-30 B.C Drama Rome Politics and government 265-30 B.C Drama Underground railroad Drama United StatesAlpsten, Ellen
Summary: "Ellen Alpsten's stunning new novel, The Tsarina's Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, danger, passion and scandal. Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPYellowhorn, Eldon
Summary: Discover the amazing story of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the end of the Ice Age to the arrival of the Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 YELMcGrath, Alister E.
Summary: A Theory of Everything (That Matters) is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the role of faith in a world where science and technology govern our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.092 MCGSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: After unleashing a beastly curse upon her Scottish village, Princess Merida embarks on a perilous quest and discovers the meaning of true bravery. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Book 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Ferrante, Elena
Summary: Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: Elena and Lila are now adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both once fought to escape the violence and corruption of Naples. Brilliant and bookish, Elena succeeded but has returned to be with the man she always loved. And fiery, uncontainable Lila,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERH. Belden & Co
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mika Silk Screening 1972
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 712.913 ILLTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYKlages, Ellen
Summary: In 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KLASummary: Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSUllman, Ellen
Summary: "The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine. The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ULLMAN, ELLEN ULLEisen, Norman L.
Summary: When Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. As he unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of some of the remarkable people who had called this palace home, he began to chronicle the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. He introduces us to optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.71 EISH. Belden & Co
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumming Publishers 1980
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912.713 ILLFerrante, Elena
Summary: Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOLSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMYang, Belle.
Summary: Baba is "Papa" in Chinese, and this particular Baba is Joseph Yang, born in Manchuria in 1928. His daughter, Belle, a writer and visual artist who was born in Taiwan but whose "spiritual address is so much in the West," set out to paint and to write - and thereby to preserve for posterity - Baba's memories of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. The result is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMPerkins-Valdez, Dolen
Summary: "Set during the [era after the Civil War] and exploring the next chapter of history--the end of slavery--this ... story of love and healing is about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEREdginton, Ian
Summary: "Jane Austen se refirió a Orgullo y prejuicio, la primera de sus novelas publicadas, como su "querido niño". Generaciones de lectores lo han llevado a su corazón desde entonces. Y es que la irresistible atracción que relata entre la brillante e independiente Elizabeth Bennet y el solemnemente austero Sr. Darcy, se ha convertido en una de las historias de amor más románticas y más divertidas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bruguera Contemporánea 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH AUSAllen, Kevin
Summary: "An oral history of the Detroit Red Wings, one of the most popular franchises in the NHL The most outstanding voices of the Detroit Red Wings hockey tradition come together in this decade-by-decade collection of more than 40 stories. Wings fans will relish the intimate stories told by Steve Yzerman, Niklas Lindstrom, Ted Lindsay, and other figures they have come to cherish. One phrase, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Summary: "This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics and the arts. A timeline of important events in the history of money is included, along with a glossary and bibliography. Photographs of coins and bills enhance the text, providing an up-close look at many artifacts."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2019