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Civilization, Western Philosophy FICTION / Action & Adventure FICTION / War & Military Intelligence officers United States Fiction International relations Fiction Large type books Undercover operations Fiction United States United States. Army. Delta Force Fiction United States. Office of Strategic Services FictionBentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)
Summary: Philip Trent is investigating the murder of a wealthy American financier on holiday in England. While struggling to crack the case, he falls in love with one of the primary suspects.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENNesbit, E. (Edith)
Summary: With their father called away, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis must move with their mother to the country, where they wait each day at the train station in hopes their father will arrive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWBurnett, Frances Hodgson
Summary: An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Frank Wooster 1905
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBeasley, Jerry C.
Contents: 1. Fiction in the 1740s: backgrounds, topics, strategies -- 2. Romance and the "new" novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett -- 3. Fiction as contemporary history -- 4. Fiction as contemporary biography: tales of low life -- 5. Fiction as contemporary biography: records of spiritual life -- 6. "Novelistic" fiction in the 1740s -- 7. Fiction as artifice: the achievement of Henry Fielding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1982
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 823.5 BEARollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: Draws on the recently opened archives of Ted Hughes to offer new insights into the iconic poet's psyche and literary achievements, in a portrait that includes previously unpublished papers and dozens of letters exchanged between Plath and Hughes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLATH, SYLVIA ROLButterworth, W. E. (William Edmund)
Summary: "At the tender age of sixteen, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding school for committing a prank, and on the train home naturally wonders where his life will take him now. It never enters his mind that he will become a world-class marksman and a special agent of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in postwar Germany, play a key role in the defection of a Soviet officer and then...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUTMoss, Marissa
Summary: Eager to fight for the North during the Civil War, Sarah Emma Edmonds joins a Michigan infantry regiment. She excels as a soldier, and she even takes on the grueling task of nursing the wounded. Because of her heroism, she is asked to become a spy, cross enemy lines, and infiltrate a Confederate camp. For her first mission, Sarah must once again disguise herself and rely on the kindness of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 EDMBentley, C. F.
Summary: The world of Harmony, along with its close-knit colony planets, long ago isolated itself from the rest of the universe. But in a universe where the human-based Confederate Star System fleet finds itself hard-pressed to stand against ever-increasing attacks by the alien Marillon Empire, the Harmonic Empire cannot be left alone. For if the CSS cannot win an alliance with Harmony, the Marils will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBeasley, Jerry C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: the University of Georgia press 1998
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 823.6 BEARollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has fascinated readers nearly as much as the great novels, but Faulkner has remained...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM ROLSummary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Intense shark attacks including some bloody images, language, brief partial nudity/sexual references and drug use.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JAWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JAWGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat-but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Recruited by Wild Bill Donovan to set up an airline that will be an OSS front in 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade monitors two German operations, including a concentration-camp smuggling ring and a Nazi protection group.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In 1946, special agent James Cronley Jr. uncovers evidence of a stolen fortune in the hands of Odessa while tracking down two escaped Nazi war criminals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Facing daunting challenges in the form of political threats against the OSS and the early stirrings of the Cold War, Cletus Frade and his colleague conduct a secret operation to counter the growing ambitions of Joseph Stalin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Promoted and placed in charge of a top-secret spy operation for a fledgling Central Intelligence Agency, James Cronley discovers links between the former German intelligence chief and the Mossad before receiving shocking intelligence from an undercover agent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Griffin 2014Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Suffering among the country's highest murder rates; the tension between the Philadelphia PD and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings; especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the Wyatt Earp of the Main Line, and then the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Griffin 2015Griffin, W. E. B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007