Cornwell, Bernard.
Summary: Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: In 1812, after a successful British assault on Ciudad Rodrigo, Captain Richard Sharpe is dismayed to learn that his longtime friend, Colonel William Lawford, is severely injured. Meanwhile, Sharpe's longtime nemesis, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, joins the unit with diabolical intentions. To make matters worse, Sharpe is simultaneously demoted to lieutenant by his new commander. As the Battle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians,but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORBerry, Julie
Summary: In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENPerrault, Claude
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Publisher / Publication Date: Payette Radio 1969
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 PERTerrell, Brandon
Summary: After Nate's middle school basketball team suffers a frustrating loss, he and his cousin Rachel travel back in time to see the 1992 Dream Team in Barcelona, and learn about teamwork--but he still needs to convince the other players on his team to share the ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TERTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: An epic battle pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians--and Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, against Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURMontañés, Mónica
Summary: "During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONCervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Summary: Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Street Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: D. Campagna 1975
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 CampagnaDorion, Leah
Summary: "Leah Dorion captures the Métis way of life in the bison hunting days of long ago. She describes how the Métis interacted with the bison and their importance to all aspects of culture and how all parts of the bison were used in different ways."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gabriel Dumont Institute Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 DORJanes, J. Robert (Joseph Robert)
Summary: "Occupied France, December 1942. Seven days before Christmas, Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the French Surete Nationale and his partner Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo are dispatched to a village in Provence to investigate what appears to be a "local" murder. An attractive, well-dressed woman lies dead on a hillside, an iron-tipped bolt through her heart. Was it a crime of passion?" "The tight-lipped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANOlstein, Lisa
Summary: "Pain Studies is a book-length lyric essay at the intersection of pain, perception, and language. Through the prism of migraine, Pain Studies episodically and idiosyncratically explores personal, cultural, medical, and literary histories of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it--and undertakes extended engagements with a range of sources including the trial testimony of Joan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEPGagne, Peter J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quintin Publications 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 GAGDueñas, María
Summary: La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al alzamiento y se instala en Tánger con un amante que apenas conoce. Al encontrarse abandonada, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, forja una nueva identidad y logra poner en marcha un selecto atelier en el que atiende a clientas de orígenes remotos y presentes insospechados. Esa novela avanza con ritmo imparable por los mapas, la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temas De Hoy 2010
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Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOHAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Allende 2020Toro, Guillermo del
Summary: Writer-director Guillermo del Toro and author Cornelia Funke have come together to transform del Toro's hit movie Pan's Labyrinth into an epic and dark fantasy novel for listeners of all ages, complete with enchanting short stories that flesh out the folklore of this fascinating world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TORHansen, Regina Marie
Summary: Beet MacNeill, raised on tales of wild magic around her Prince Edward Island home, must protect her loved ones when the stories of a shape-shifting sea creature and the cold, beautiful woman who controls him begin coming true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021