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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904 Translations into English Frères et sœurs Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Magic Magic Fiction Magic Juvenile fiction Siblings Fiction Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Drama Time travel Fiction Women's rights FictionChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEAnderson, Alison A.
Summary: To keep herself occupied after recently losing her sight, Zinaida begins a diary in the summer of 1888. When a family rents a guesthouse on her family's estate, Zinaida meets and befriends Anton, the middle son, who is a doctor and a writer. As the summer progresses, Zinaida's diary becomes an intimate, intropective narrative of her singular relationship with Anton. More than a century later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Contents: The steppe -- The duel -- The story of an unknown man -- Three years -- My life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2004
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Contents: Sleepy -- The beauties -- The party -- The shoemaker and the devil -- The bet -- A nervous breakdown -- The princess -- The horse-stealers -- Gusev -- Peasant wives -- The grasshopper -- After the theatre -- In exile -- Neighbours -- Terror -- The helpmate -- The two Volodyas -- Rothschild's fiddle -- The student -- The teacher of literature -- At the country house -- The head-gardener's story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.723 CHEThomas, M. J.
Summary: "The mysterious scroll transports the time-traveling trio back to Bethlehem where they quickly befriend a young David before he faces Goliath"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCThomas, M. J.
Summary: Peter, nine, Mary, ten, and their dog, Hank, journey into biblical history to the time of the battle of Jericho, where they meet Israelite spies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOGutman, Dan
Summary: The Flashback Four are coerced by a secret government organization, NOYB, to travel to July 1804 Weehawken, New Jersey, to witness the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTO'Shaughnessy, Kathy
Summary: "Who was the real George Eliot? Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of its mysterious writer. Gradually it becomes apparent that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OSHSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: A downed pilot encounters a tiny prince from a mysterious, faraway place. The first-ever animated feature film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's beloved timeless classic tale of innocence and discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRRosen, Renée
Summary: 1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor-- The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families, but what good is money when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction GrimesMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: When Jonah and two of his friends are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan, Abby and the fairy Maryrose follow them to make sure they are safe--but soon Abby uncovers a plot by the evil fairy Gluck and Tinkerbell to trap Maryrose in Neverland forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRIGarwood, Haley Elizabeth.
Summary: This is a tale of a warrior, Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and granddaughter of William the Conqueeror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writers Block 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN GARWOSolomon, Burt
Summary: "Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: "Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce by marrying the English king's beloved illegitimate daughter, Joanna, who slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband. But as John's attentions turn again and again to subduing Wales--and Llewelyn--Joanna must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Osborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie are about to meet the fiercest warriors of all -- the soldiers of the ancient Roman legion! When the magic tree house whisks them back to a Roman army camp, they learn their mission: Be like warriors. That is easier said than done -- Roman soldiers are the best fighters in the world! When Jack and Annie find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, they're in big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019