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Emperor of China Qin shi huang 259 B.C.-210 B.C Drama Hamptons (N.Y.) Fiction Jing, Ke -227 B.C Drama Lunenburg (N.S.) History Medical drama New York (State) Hamptons Oak Island (Lunenburg, N.S.) History Oak Island Treasure Site (N.S.) Sisters Fiction Video recordings for the hearing impairedHarrison, Helen A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HARSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMForest, Christopher
Summary: "In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of immigration through Ellis Island. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important part of American history. An infographic enhances understanding of immigration through Ellis Island, and What Do You Think? sidebars encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo books are published by Jump! 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.8 FORDuLong, Jessica.
Summary: DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly to life in this memoir that evokes the vitality of New York City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Blending four centuries of Hudson River history with unforgettable present-day characters and events, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 DULMeisel, Susan Pear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.1 MEIDuLong, Jessica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 917.47 DULBenjamin, Vernon
Summary: A history of the Hudson River Valley, which, because of its unique geography and proximity to Canada, was the site of many battles, chronicles its discovery all the way to its rise as a center of culture and commerce that is still evident today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BENMcKenna, Mark
Summary: "Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia's white supremacy -- the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum's storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.899 MCKSummary: After a tumultous fight for a patient's life, Hank abandons his life as a hotshot doctor in NYC. To blow off steam, he and his brother crash a party in the Hamptons where he ends up being the "doctor in the house" when a medical emergency occurs. With all eyes on him, he decides to build that reputation into a career as a concierge doctor to the wealthy residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 GAIRussell, Gareth
Summary: Takes us into every room of Hampton Court Palace-the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James's version of the Bible and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation ball, illustrating what was at play politically, socially and economically at the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Pryor, Shawn
Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.6 PRYKeeler, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 KEESummary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROGanek, Danielle.
Summary: Forced to set aside their differences when they jointly inherit a rundown cottage in the Hamptons, practical-minded Cassie and her dreamer half-sister Peck struggle to decide what to do with the house, which comes with a resident artist plagued by bad luck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANClark, Carol Higgins.
Summary: PI Regan Reilly of Los Angeles flies to a fiddle contest in Long Island to protect a woman performer from a prophecy. The woman has a famous Irish fiddle and the prophecy says whoever takes it out of Ireland will experience bad luck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAPatterson, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2015Salem, Jon.
Summary: Follow the steamy, glamorous lives of three very different women, Liza, Kellyanne, and Billie, over the course of a summer spent at a posh resort in the Hamptons. With a grisly murder, a premature birth, and a public meltdown all on the docket for this intense and erotic plot, these ladies are in for a summer they'll never forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliiance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALSummary: Inside Wildsam Hamptons & North Fork you'll find stories from prize-winning authors, past and present; a detailed road trip plan and profiles to ten idyllic towns; interviews with surfers, artists, winemakers and landscape architects; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic East End experiences and an immersive trek into the work, culture, and life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.472 HAMPTONS WILDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Twin witches (and Norse goddesses) Molly and Mardi Overbrook are sent to North Hampton for the summer where they must learn to control their powers before the White Council exiles them to Limbo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DELSullivan, Randall
Summary: Since 1795 there have been rumors of buried treasure on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms; when they reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and made further digging impossible. Subsequent explorers discovered a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.6 SULCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History Wld SullivanDunwell, Frances F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2008