Summary: They employed a brutality which is staggering by today's standards. A fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic, and truly ruthless leaders, how they came to power and stayed in power, how they treated their subjects, friends and family, demonstrated battlefield leadership and achieved transformations at home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NonFic AVenditti, Robert
Summary: "Mythological monsters and gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find a return Zeus's stolen property and bringpeace to a warring Mount Olympus."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PERVenditti, Robert.
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of "The Titan's Curse," in which the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PERRiordan, Rick
Summary: After discovering a secret that makes him question the honor of being the son of Poseidon, demi-god Percy Jackson journeys into the Sea of Monsters in an attempt to save Camp Half-Blood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PERVerdi, Giuseppe
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA VERLocke, Attica.
Summary: When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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Summary: When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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Summary: In Black Water Rising , Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with T he Cutting Season , a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across more than a century. Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Summary: "Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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Summary: 9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark.Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOCLocke, Attica.
Summary: Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she has managed for four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug up. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long afterwards, he calls her to say it's a dead body. At a distance, she missed her. Now she has police on site, an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2012
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Attali, Jacques.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 ATTAttia, Peter
Summary: "Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 ATTAntill, Sara.
Summary: Explains why gratitude is important, the different ways readers can express their gratitude, and offers examples of people who were grateful in different situations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 179.9 ANTAttell, Dave.
Contents: Odd look -- Drinking tips -- Fun happens late -- Travel -- Flying -- Bus station -- The Unf**kables -- Tattoos -- Smoking -- Lonely bug -- I miss my Dad -- Fireworks -- Homophobic -- Midget friend -- Parrot -- Condoms -- Love -- Gambling -- Shaved pubes -- Religion -- Drugs -- Breast feeding -- Sex with animals -- Amish sex -- D**k jokes -- Sex store -- Masturbation -- Find the smell.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ATTCerato, Mattia
Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERAttema, Martha
Summary: "For 16-year-old Klara, a devastating flood reveals a dark family secret. It is February 1953 in the Netherlands and Klara is expected to marry the son of a prominent farmer. In this small island community, steeped in tradition, the Church controls the lives of its citizens but Klara longs to escape. When a spring tide merges with a brutal storm it causes the dikes to breach, unleashing death...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ronsdale Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTDattilo, Philip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wordfarer Books 2002