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Great projects, the building of America Malazan book of the fallen Malazan book of the fallen ; [bk. 2] Malazan book of the fallen ; bk. 4 Malazan book of the fallen ; bk. 7 The adventures of the Bailey School Kids graphic novel 1 The shadow 3 The shadow 1 The Shadow Age 1 Thieves of shadow 1Ayers, Edward L.
Summary: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies is a landmark work of stirring historical narrative and deep scholarship. It gives us the Civil War on an intimate scale, as a story of individuals and families, civilians and soldiers, slaves, free blacks and whites, women and men. It upends what has become the standard view of the Civil War. By taking a ground-level view of the war, Edward L. Ayers shows that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AYEDavis, W. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVBennett, Robert Jackson
Summary: In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death at once terrifying and impossible. Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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Summary: Even with the combined skills of Kage Tatsumi and the demon Hakaimono inside of him, they both know that it may be impossible to overcome the evil forces that control the cursed sword that keep them trapped as one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAGKagawa, Julie
Summary: One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had one task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono. Now he has broken free. Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2019
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Summary: One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish--and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn. Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAGPerry, Marta.
Summary: "With no memory of her birth parents, or the tragic accident that took their lives, Lydia Beachy has always been grateful for the aunt and uncle who took her in and raised her as their own. Now a married woman with two sons, Lydia finds her life turned upside down when she discovers that she has two younger sisters: Susanna, who was adopted by an Amish family in another community, and Chloe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERMarsh, Sarah Glenn
Summary: "Odessa is one of Karthia's master necromancers, catering to the kingdom's ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it's Odessa's job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised: the Dead must remain shrouded. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation begins, turning the Dead into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARSummary: This episode of the four-part film series documents the building of the most expensive highway project in American history. Billions have been spent to mitigate the concerns of Boston’s residents, business leaders, and environmentalists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Erikson, Steven.
Summary: Tavore Paran struggles to hold her army together in order to combat a fearsome alien force, while the gods threaten to once again unleash dragons to destroy the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: A latest tongue-in-cheek adventure starring evil necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach finds them hotly pursued through a legendary wasteland by a band of Nehemothanai hunters who are forced to make painful choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIWard, J. R.
Summary: After reporter Mels Carmichael hits a disheveled man with her car outside the local cemetery, she pays a visit to the stranger in the hospital. The only thing he remembers of his past is seeing a name written on a headstone: that of Jim Heron--a fallen angel charged with rescuing souls from the seven deadly sins. Now, as Mels struggles to help this mysterious stranger rediscover himself, Heron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSummary: This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how electricity became a part of every American's life. After 1880, Thomas Edison launched the electric-lighting era, and power plants spread to cities. Few private utilities wired rural areas, citing its cost. But if private firms refused to do it, the government would. Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, leading the Tennessee Valley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: This episode of the four-part documentary series connects the histories of the eleven major bridges that unite the islands that make up New York City and connect the great metropolis to the rest of the nation. This video tells the story of Othmar Ammann, the greatest bridge-builder of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Florentine, Jasmine
Summary: Hex Allen can't do magic - a huge problem when everything from lights to locks is powered by simple spells that everyone can do. After years of feeling useless, Hex seizes the chance to change her future by journeying to the Wishing Wyrm, a legendary dragon that will grant a single wish once a century. Unfortunately, Hex isn't the only one after the wish, and every rival wish hunter has magic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLOSummary: This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how America harnessed two of its mightiest rivers and put them to work for its citizens. The projects—the Mississippi's system of levees and floodways, and the Colorado's Hoover Dam—constitute vastly different engineering efforts. Their tale is epic, at first one of folly and failure, then of unprecedented personal drama and human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Harrison, Kim
Summary: "Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic-and that's never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she's parlayed her rare ability to handle dross--the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin's spellwork--into a decent life working at the mages' university. Except Grady's relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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Summary: Preparing for a long-prophesied uprising in the Holy Desert Raraku, seer Sha'ik and her followers anticipate the Malazan Empire's most violent conflict, which they believe will shape destinies and give rise to legendary figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: Years after a tribal attack on the southern flatlands, Tavore, an Adjunct to the Empress, struggles to train a band of some twelve thousand inexperienced recruits to meet an attack by the forces of her sister, Sha'ik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIErikson, Steven.
Summary: A clash of warriors draws closer as Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor. Against this backdrop, a band of fugitives seek a way out of the empire, but one of them, Fear Sengar, must find the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye. It is his hope that the soul might help halt the Tiste Edur, and so save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERILow, Pearl
Summary: The hard-to-handle third graders at Bailey Elementary School wonder if their new teacher, Mrs. Jeepers, who just moved from Transylvania and has glowing green eyes, is a vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: "A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWSands, Kevin
Summary: "Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021