Elliott, Chiyuma
Summary: ""Blue in Green"is a book that is equal parts subtle intelligence and generosity of heart. In it, Chiyuma Elliott creates a unique voice that returns again and again to the question of what we expect from one another, and how that question is transformed instead into a question of what we owe each other. This notion of reversal plays out in the construction of the poems where, unlike so many of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ELLEllicott, Jessica
Summary: "World-renowned adventuress Beryl Helliwell cited for "reckless" motoring? Why, the very idea! Constable Gibbs just has it in for her. The solution? Charm the magistrate, of course. But days after Beryl's appearance before the bench, she and Edwina pay a visit to the magistrate only to find his home ransacked and the man himself lying dead at the bottom of a grand staircase. Given the state of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2021
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Summary: "In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay . . . The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint English village of Walmsley Parva hits rather too close to home-in fact, the prime suspect has taken up residence in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: "Neither Beryl nor Edwina are the least bit interested in attending events at their alma mater, Miss Dupont's Finishing School for Young Ladies. However, when a letter arrives from Miss Dupont herself requesting their help, they pack their bags. Upon arrival, they learn that students have reported items missing, damaged possessions, and strange noises in the night. Then a mother of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match. 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M ELLSummary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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Summary: Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport, who share a household in the hamlet of Walmsley Parva, have set up their own informal private investigation business. Their first client, Vicar Wilfred Lowethorpe, requires sensitivity and discretion. Lionel Cunningham, a parishioner and treasurer of the local pigeon racing club, has gone missing with all the club's funds and some prize birds belonging to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: "Set in a charming English village just after WWI, Jessica Ellicott's winning series returns to the witty antics of delightfully mismatched friends and sleuths-of-a-certain-age, Beryl and Edwina. Their personalities couldn't be more different -Beryl is a brash, adventurous American, while Edwina is a prim and proper Brit-but the pair have a knack for solving mysteries. Now they've been hired to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2022
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Summary: "What began for two dear if very different friends--an American adventuress and a prim and proper Brit--as a creative response to the lean times following the Great War has evolved into a respectable private enquiry business. So much so that Constable Gibbs calls upon Beryl and Edwina to solve a curious campaign of character assassination. A series of anonymous accusations sent via post have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ELLAllott, Susan
Summary: "It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens' next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had fled a broken marriage and gone to start a new life; but now Mandy's family is trying to reconnect, and there is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Allott 2020Achebe, Chinua.
Summary: A fictional account of African politics that prophesieses social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACHAllitt, Patrick.
Contents: Pt 1. Lecture 1: What is conservatism? -- Lecture 2: Glorious revolution and its heritage -- Lecture 3: Burke, tradition, and the French Revolution -- Lecture 4: Pitt and the wars of the French Revolution -- Lecture 5: American Revolution -- Lecture 6: Federalists -- Lecture 7: Conservatives in the American south -- Lecture 8: Northern Antebellum conservatism -- Lecture 9: Opposing the Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 CONAllitt, Patrick.
Summary: Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers lectures on the history of the British Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 RISCall number: DVD 942 RIS PART 1
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Achebe, Chinua.
Summary: A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obama's election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHEBE, CHINUA ACHIncigneri, David Eliott.
Contents: Sad things -- New workplace -- The goal -- The bell tolls for you -- You'll know when it's over -- The problem -- Size of the mind -- Out of the world -- Fiomatsoma -- In a series of heartbeats -- Liormasopiama -- Now we sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feral 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IncigAckerman, Elliot
Summary: "Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred E. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKElliot, Elisabeth
Contents: Introduction: Christ-bearers -- Do we know what we're in for? -- Acceptance and peace -- All things are yours -- Material evidence -- Helps to holiness -- Walking with Jesus -- A servant heart -- Helps in prayer -- Longsuffering love -- The hope of glory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ ElliotElliot, Elisabeth
Summary: Elisabeth Elliot candidly shares with you her love story with Jim Elliot as evidence that she has been there. Through letters, diary entries, and memories, she shares the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose commitment to Christ took priority over their love for each other. These revealing personal glimpses, combined with relevant biblical teaching,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ ElliotElliot, Jason
Summary: In our current climate of war and suspicion, Iran is depicted as the "next" rogue nation that America and the world must "deal with." But the rhetoric about nuclear weapons and jihad obscures the real Iran: an ancient nation and culture, both sophisticated and isolated, which still exists clandestinely in major cities as well as the country's remote mountains and deserts. Jason Elliot has spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.504 ELLElliot, Rob
Summary: Collects hundreds of short jokes for children, including one liners, knock knock jokes, and tongue twisters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spire 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 818.6 ELLElliot, Rose
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Spec ElliotKruszynski, Elliot
Summary: Discover eight fun vehicles in this bright and friendly book for babies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD KRUPerlman, Elliot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERJ Elliotte D Marcotte Rachmaninoff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Embassy Music Corporation 1941