Balakian, Peter
Summary: In this groundbreaking history of the Armenian Genocide, the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Black Dog of Fate brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Young Turk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 BalSummary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: The personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, pathologist Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Sommerdahl has devoted his life to protecting his beloved town, which has, unfortunately, cost him his marriage. But can he learn to accept, that his ex-wife is now in a relationship with Flemming?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SOMSummary: In the seaside Danish town of Elsinore, the personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, criminal technician Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Separated after 25 years of marriage, Dan now asks for a divorce despite still being in love with Marianne. She, meanwhile, wants to rediscover herself which gets complicated when Flemming,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SOMKater, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATDexter, Pete
Summary: The mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: Peter and his cousin Michael are drawn into the violence of the mob in Philadelphia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, he cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. His columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and in the places he visited across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In Florida, fame-hungry journalists reopen an investigation into the murder of a county sheriff. They fabricate false evidence and save the convicted man from being executed, for which they are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A look at what some people will do to gain fame. By the author of Paris Trout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete.
Summary: Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished."-- The New York Times Book Review The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Dexter, Pete.
Summary: The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, a hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence and aims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Kater, Peter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATSummary: A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor's time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRAMeters
Contents: You've got to change (you've got to reform) -- Stay away -- Birds -- The flower song -- Soul island -- Do the dirt -- Smiling -- Lonesome and unwanted people -- Gettin' funkier all the time -- Cabbage Alley -- People say -- Love is for me -- Just kissed my baby -- What'cha say -- Jungle man -- Hey pocky a-way -- It ain't no use -- Loving you is on my mind -- Africa -- Out in the country -- Fire...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2014
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Summary: July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence: his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own fate. He acquires the names of the 117...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARPester, Sophie
Summary: Get creative with upcycling craft projects from this book and discover materials and techniques you have never used before. Includes 52 projects with DIY ideas for every weekend, ranging from jewellery and accessories to home decoration and furniture. Embroider a notebook, print fabric with starfuit, or make a hanging garden for your bathroom. The projects are easy to accomplish, and you can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 PESPablo, Petey.
Contents: Part 2 -- Did you miss me (featuring Baby & TQ) -- Jam y'all -- Freek-a-leek -- O it's on (featuring Young Buck, of G-Unit) -- Let's roc -- Stick 'em up -- Get on dis motorcycle (featuring Bubba Sparxxx) -- Break me off (featuring Missy Elliott) -- Boy's bathroom -- U don't want dat (featuring Lil Jon) -- What you know about it -- I swear -- Roll off -- Be country -- He spoke to me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jive 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PETPeper, Eliot
Summary: A rising star at a preeminent political lobbying firm, Dag Calhoun represents the world's most powerful technology and energy executives. But when a close brush with death reveals that the influence he wields makes him a target, impossible cracks appear in his perfect, richly appointed life. Like everyone else, Dag relies on his digital feed for everything--a feed that is as personal as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEPDeuter.
Summary: "The Healing Music Series offers works by composers who are pioneering the use of music and sound for healing and enhanced well-being." --Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Relaxation Co. 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE DEUGábriel, Péter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BIRGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022