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Criminal behavior England Hastings Drama Detectives England Hastings Drama DVD-Video discs Foyle, Christopher (Fictitious character) Drama Imaginary wars and battles Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Magic Magic Fiction Murder England Hastings Drama Murder Investigation England Hastings DramaSummary: Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FOYSummary: History meets mystery in this PBS series, with four feature-length episodes set at the height of World War II. War has torn the social fabric of the once quiet coastal community of Hastings and DCS Christopher Foyle's investigations explore the violence and opportunism that the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: The acclaimed detective series returns with three new mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYFisher, Jude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In 1943 Tunisia, Major Robert Bellmon, a tank commander, is captured by German enemies, in a harrowing American saga that views the terrifying and triumphant side of the war through the eyes of one man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: Set against the events of 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, the Hunter family, their servants, their neighbors, and the denizens of the once-tranquil village of Northcote, England, all must deal with the harsh realities of a violent and rapidly changing world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2014
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Summary: The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: When the Duke of Bari suddenly dies, the neighboring nation of Algarve, long seething over its defeat a generation ago in the Six Years' Wars, sees its chance to bring Bari into the fold ... an action which the other countries surrounding Algarve cannot, by treaty, tolerate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURWagers, K. B.
Summary: An epic space opera trilogy featuring the gunrunner empress, Hail Bristol, who must navigate alien politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies war. The battle for the throne is over. The war for the galaxy is just beginning. Hail Bristol, infamous galactic gunrunner and former runaway princess, never expected to inherit the throne of Indrana. But after avenging the murder of her entire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAGCheverton, Mark
Summary: Watcher must face a dangerous wither king in the first book of a new Far Lands Minecrafter adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Mark Cheverton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION CHEJefferies, Dinah
Summary: "What price will they pay for their bravery? In an old stone cottage, on the edge of a beautiful French village, three sisters long for the end of the war. Hélène, the protector, vows to keep her sisters safe. Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost. And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for a world where France is free. When the Allies come knocking for help,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Canada, Limited 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFMiller, Tom
Summary: "In World War I America, magic and science have blended into an extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes, a practitioner of empirical philosophy--an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal, and even fly--dreams of becoming the first male in an elite team of flying medics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILWatkins, Steve
Summary: In the basement of his family's junkshop, Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie discover a trunk full of old military stuff. Including a battered navy peacoat from World War II. When Anderson puts it on he finds a mysterious letter in the pocket. Curious, he takes the coat and letter home. But that's not all he brings home. Later that evening the ghost of a World War II sailor appears in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Studies the events from 1919-1939, stressing the allied errors that led to World War II and analyzes the first months of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUGlass, Jenna
Summary: "In a feminist fantasy epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own fertility--with consequences that rock their patriarchal society to its core. When a nobleman's first duty is to produce a male heir, women are treated like possessions and bargaining chips. But as the aftereffects of a world-altering spell ripple out physically and culturally, women at last have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAGregory, Philippa.
Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREAkers, Tim
Summary: The Celestial Church has all but eliminated the old pagan ways, ruling the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorize the land, hunted by the warriors of the Inquisition, yet its the battling factions within the Church and age-old hatreds between north and south that tear the land apart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC AKEKuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Summary: A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUAZahn, Timothy.
Summary: Earth had won its war with the Troft because of the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. The Moreau family were the most famous of the Cobra warriors, but their descendent, Jasmine "Jin" Moreau Broom, is worried about the current attitudes of the Cobra worlds and their leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. Enterprises 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHBlake, Kendare.
Summary: Athena and Hermes' search for the cause of their unexpected, life-threatening illnesses leads them to Cassandra, a former prophetess, who may be key to a war started by Hera and other Olympians who have become corrupt anti-gods determined to destroy their rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAGilman, Laura Anne.
Summary: Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines, and selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILKristoff, Jay.
Summary: In this dystopian steampunk fantasy set against a backdrop of feudal Japan, warrior Yukiko captures a supposedly extinct (but crippled) griffin for the Shogun, then learns -- after meeting secretive Kin and the rebel Kage cabal -- of the horrifying extent of the Shogun's crimes, both against her country and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shogun pay -- but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRILawrence, Mark
Summary: "Hailed as "epic fantasy on a George R. R. Martin scale, but on speed,"* the Broken Empire trilogy introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath's devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince... The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2014