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Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette (Chavaniac-Lafayette, France) Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette (Chavaniac-Lafayette, France) Fiction Experimental fiction France France History German occupation, 1914-1918 Fiction Gothic revival (Literature) Short stories, American United States History 1913-1921 Fiction United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction US & CAN historical fictionStein, Garth.
Summary: Evaluating his life on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master, Denny Swift, has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SteinMarie, Aurielle
Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARLevine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)
Summary: In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CURGrey, Zane
Summary: Besieged by British rangers and Shawnee Indians, the settlers of Fort Henry must make a valiant stand in one of the last battles of the American Revolution, and their only hope is Betty Zane, who runs the gauntlet to retrieve the last keg of gunpowder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1961
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Brings together Poe's stories and poems in one volume.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 POE1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 POE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 POECarey, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Small town Pemkowet, Mich., is a popular tourist destination for humans. It's also home to a thriving 'eldritch community' of supernatural entities, thanks to the presence of the local underworld controlled by the Norse goddess Hel. Daisy Johanssen, a half-demon trying to dodge her innate attraction to the 'Seven Deadlies' while functioning as Hel's agent on Earth and the local link between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: A showcase of many of the International Thriller Writers's top authors as well as rising stars in the genre. Includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Joan Johnston, John Lescroart, Alex Kava and Deb Carlin, and more.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FIRBeardslee, Lois.
Summary: The Women's Warrior Society is a remarkable gathering of characters and voices used to expose truths about Native American life. In tightly woven prose, Lois Beardslee tells stories about people from all over North America and from either side of the line between abused and abuser. Both individual and archetypal, Native and non-Native, male and female, her characters take up arms against widely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVECard, Orson Scott
Summary: What good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, if when you return them to their owners they think you must have stolen them in the first place? Ezekial Blast's friend Beth thinks there must be some way to use his "micropower" for good. And so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl. When tragedy strikes, it's up to Ezekiel to use his talent to find what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: JT PA Fiction Card 2019Dray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dray 2021Dray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)Perec, Georges
Summary: "As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1994