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Alvarez, Enrique (Fictitious character) Fiction China History 19th century Fiction China History Guangxu, 1875-1908 Fiction China History Tongzhi, 1861-1875 Fiction Empresses China Fiction Family secrets Female friendship Fiction Friendship Large type books Life change events FictionCrowley, John
Summary: Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOLSummary: In the epic final season, Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria, their goal, they must assimilate, a tough ask for people who have seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth's resources, the group slowly adjusts to their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALJeffries, Sabrina.
Summary: Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke's brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan's sister. Soon he and Lisette are traveling to Paris...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEFAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ANSAnstee, Ashlyn
Summary: Adorable art paired with fun-to-read text shows tots all of the ways they can boop a snoot--as in: poke cute animal noses! They can boop one snoot or two snoots, slow snoots and fast snoots. This interactive board book begs to be poked and prodded as toddlers learn to boop the snoot!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE ANSFraser, Anthea
Summary: "Mark Richmond's trip to York takes a surprise detour when he runs into Helena Crawford and ends up accompanying her to her parents' ruby wedding anniversary in Drumlee, Scotland. Six months earlier, Mark attended Peter Kingsley's sixtieth birthday party - the father of his now-estranged wife, Sophie - where Peter was unexpectedly taken ill. Mark's father, Charles, has been friends with Peter...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAHarris, Anstey
Summary: Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris , an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole. Grace once had the beginnings of a promising musical career, but she hasn't been able to play her cello publicly since a traumatic event at music college years ago. Since then, she's built a quiet life for herself in her small English village,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSMin, Anchee
Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINAnshaw, Carol
Summary: It's the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago's theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and knows it's time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new even as she's haunted by an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSMin, Anchee
Summary: The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINSummary: Dexter is back with a new take on taking life. He is ready to put the past behind him, until a high-profile case puts him in the sights of powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado, and the pressure might be too great for even Dexter to hack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEXBell, Anthea.
Summary: A magical being comes into the unhappy lives of a brother and sister, leading them into a world of fantasy and adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BELMin, Anchee
Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFJeffries, Roderic
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFAnshaw, Carol
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSAnshaw, Carol
Summary: A lesbian therapist in Chicago whose live-in lover disappears tracks her down in Morocco, only to find a different woman, a shock that puts her power of perception in question. If she could misread a lover for so long--a therapist's worst fear--perhaps she hardly knows her own mind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSAnsell, Cameron
Summary: Eight stories follow Arthur, his family, and his friends, as they experience the joys and challenges of having a brother or sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ARTSummary: It takes one to break one in a final season like no other. Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades have been both adversaries and allies, but when Axe returns with a score to settle, the stakes escalate beyond Wall Street and their game of one-upmanship threatens to topple empires. It'll be a triumph for some, and a tumble for others. This four-disc collection includes every episode and exclusive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Victor isn't just any lighthouse keeper. He's also a vampire. Victor has never been accepted. Humans shun him because he's a vampire. Vampires shun him because he doesn't want to bite people. They even exile him from their society. Victor soon learns that this negative event can lead to positive results. Through experiencing the kindness of strangers, Victor gets a second chance at happiness....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mascot Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KESJeffries, Sabrina
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries's first book in a series set in England in the early 1800s about an oft-widowed mother's grown children, who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers . . . and in the process find that love just might conquer all."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JEFJeffries, Sabrina.
Summary: Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has been estranged from his mother for most of his life. When his mother's new companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart, writes to tell him that his mother is seriously ill, he goes home. But when he learns that the lovely widow tricked him in order to effect a holiday reconciliation, he refuses to stay unless she meets his "terms".
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JEFMin, Anchee
Summary: Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010