Gross, Andrew
Summary: A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRODandrea, Don
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANGroff, Lauren
Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GROGroot, Tracy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moody 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROPyper, Andrew
Summary: "In this gripping and terrifying horror story based on true events, the President's late son haunts the White House, breaking the spirit of what remains of the First Family and the divided America beyond the residence's walls. The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYPHilleman, Andrew
Summary: "Resurrecting a forgotten American folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice, World, Chase Me Down is a debut novel of adrenaline-fueled, page-turning suspense based on the first great crime of the last century: the revenge kidnapping by out-of-work former butcher Pat Crowe of the sixteen-year-old son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon--the man who forced him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHilleman, Andrew
Summary: Once the most wanted man in America, Pat Crowe is a forgotten folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of the last century: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILChapin, Andrea.
Summary: Katharine de L'Isle, a young widow living at Lufanwal Hall during Queen Elizabeth's brutal persecution of the English Catholics in 1590, is thrown into turmoil when the family priest is murdered and a new schoolmaster named William Shakespeare arrives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADILarson, Jonathan
Summary: Musical drama film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut. Written by Steven Levenson, it is based on the stage musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson, a semi-autobiographical story about Larson's writing a musical to enter the industry.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Masterworks 2021