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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Comic books, strips, etc Detective and mystery stories, English Graphic novels Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) Fiction Private investigators England Fiction Sea stories Teenage boys Fiction Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) Fiction Young women England FictionAusten, Jane
Summary: Social and romantic misunderstandings combine against the Bennet sisters in their pursuit of suitable romantic attachments.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: "In two of these stories, The Reigate Squire and The adventure of the Beryl Coronet, Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries. In the first he explains a rural murder while in the second, Holmes' timely intervention prevents something of a national - even royal - scandal"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: Scandal in Bohemia. Adventure of the engineer's thumb. Five orange pips. Silver blaze.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYProust, Marcel
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PROAusten, Jane
Summary: As a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman, Emma decides to introduce Harriet Smith to society to find a husband. Emma entangles herself in a web in which everythings ends up precisely as it began.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Austen 2006Doyle, Arthur Conan
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: A case of identity (Dvorak, String quintet no. 9) -- The adventure of the crooked man (Greig, String quartet in G minor) -- The naval treaty (Dvorak, String quintet no. 14) -- The Greek interpreter (Dvorak, String quartet no. 10 ; Indian ragas)
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: The speckled band -- The adventure of the copper beeches -- The stock-broker's clerk -- The read-headed league.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYWilson, Seán Michael.
Summary: From his barber shop in Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders selected customers to steal their money and valuables. Some suspect he is up to no good, but no one knows how he actually kills his victims.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Classical Comics Ltd. 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILSummary: An American family inherits an old English castle complete with ghost, who tries to scare the new owners away. But he is befriended by young Virginia who discovers she holds the key to Sir Simon's freedom! Animated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of homeless children through war-torn China in the 1930's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INNGavaldon, Roberto
Summary: Tells the story of an immigrant family in Spain of the 19th century struggling to establish a farm amidst the hostility of the townspeople.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNAChurch, Lisa R.
Summary: An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPYOlmstead, Kathleen.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MELTait, Chris.
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: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2005
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STEVerne, Jules
Summary: A 19th-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERSummary: Every life is ordinary and extraordinary. Logan Mountstuart's is a rich tapestry of both. Experience Logan at different points in his life in this provocative glimpse at one man's quest for glory and bliss. Any Human Heart is the story of a full life, lived with passion; expansive, rich, unsentimental, comic, and profoundly moving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Carnival Film and Television Ltd. 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANYSummary: Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Determined to remove her family from the superficial, high-society world in which her husband is engrossed, a woman flees to America along with her children on the R.M.S. Titanic. Learning of her plan her husband buys a steerage ticket in the hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate steps in, the family faces an unimaginable challenge and the possibility of separation from each other...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TITSummary: Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE VONBronte, Emily
Summary: The story of the stormy relationship between the mysterious Heathcliff, the beautiful and stubborn Cathy, and the people who live at Wuthering Heights.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrontë, 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