Summary: He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PRIAdams, Douglas
Summary: In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHABrontë, Charlotte
Summary: Two stories in one volume. The first is the classic story of the relationship between Jane Eyre, a governess, and the eccentric millionaire Rochester. The second tells of the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father which causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROEliot, George
Summary: The villagers of Ravelo have the weaver, Silas Marner, marked as a miser, but he has a heart of gold.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 0000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION EliotSinclair, Upton
Summary: Presents the novel that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry, and affected radical social changes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Sinclair 1994Anderson, Sherwood
Summary: At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town's daily news. He ends up discovering the town's deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION AndersonMelville, Herman
Summary: A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION Melville 1987Stevenson, Robert Louis
Summary: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1999
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Summary: When Alice B. Toklas was asked to write a memoir, she initially refused. Instead, she wrote The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, a sharply written, deliciously rich cookbook memorializing meals and recipes shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso—and of course by Alice and Gertrude themselves. While The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas—penned by Gertrude Stein—adds vivid detail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 TOKAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCDickens, Charles
Summary: Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FIC DICDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knpof 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUMEliot, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAKipling, Rudyard
Summary: A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That Stamped."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIPLear, Edward
Summary: A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.8 LEAOrczy, Emmuska Orczy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1907
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORCSewell, Anna
Summary: A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Here is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877. This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award-winning author Robin McKinley and remains faithful to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SEWSholem Aleichem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOTwain, Mark
Summary: The adventures of a boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for the pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich House 1982
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TWAAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ALCDickens, Charles
Summary: The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery. Dickens supplied two endings to his great novel, both are recorded leaving the listener to judge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987