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Summary: "Pope Francis is prepared to say "bring on the collapse", as perhaps the only way of purging a disgraced Church. "It is not impossible," Francis has said, "that I will go down in history as the one who split the Catholic Church?" However, for Catholics asa whole, the Church will, if Francis is successful, be a friendlier, more empathetic, presence in their lives. Bestselling author, Vanity Fair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2021
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Summary: In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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Summary: Examines the papacy of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pointiff from 1939 to 1958, discussing his failure to speak out against Hitler's actions during World War II, and charging that the Pope's behavior was consistent with his dedication to enhancing his own power and his personal antipathy toward the Jews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: "An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 823 LECSummary: A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2001
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Summary: A widow's coming to terms with her grief. She is Gloria, an American teacher in England whose husband died of leukemia and left her with a small son. Helping overcome the woman's sorrow is an acquaintance of her husband, a widower who in addition to losing his wife, lost his child. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1993