Helprin, Mark

Summary: "One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Helprin, Mark

Summary: Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2017

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Helprin, Mark.

Summary: One night, Peter Lake -- orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-story man -- attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter, a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008

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Lawrence, Rae.

Summary: Rae Lawrence turns Susann's draft into the continuing story of Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara and Lyon Burke. The characters are placed in the late '80's and carried into the present, adjusting their ages a bit. Neely's golden voice has brought her fame but she craves acceptance in social circles where success means nothing and Anne and Lyon look for happiness apart from each other.

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 LAW

Kinkade, Thomas

Summary: Liza Martin arrives on Angel Island to sell the inn she and her brother inherited from their aunt. She wants to return quickly to her busy life in Boston, so disposing of the inn is an easy decision. Not so easy is what to do with her unstable career and recent divorce.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010

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Kinkade, Thomas

Summary: Liza Martin arrives on Angel Island to sell the inn she and her brother inherited from their aunt, so she can bolt back to her busy life in Boston. But back home awaits a broken marriage and an unstable career. The more time she spends on Angel Island, and with every local she meets, the more she finds herself enjoying the tranquility of the place. Her new friends don't want to see her sell the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2010

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Summary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAI

Summary: The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006

Summary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROM

Summary: A workaholic attorney crosses paths with a young boy on Christmas Eve and rediscovers the true meaning of love, life, and the holiday season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUS