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Penguin lives seriesHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: Rasputin's daughter, Masha, is sent to live with the royal family after her father's death. Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to Prince Aloysha, hoping that she has inherited Rasputin's healing powers. After Tsar Nikolay is forced to abdicate, Masha and Aloysha find solace in each other's company and tell stories as a way to escape their confinement by the Bolsheviks. In the worlds of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Kiss comes a riveting account of true crime-- the murder of a family in a small Midwestern town-- and the gripping exploration of its haunting aftermath. The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two survivors-- one a convicted murderer, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 HARHarrison, Kathryn
Summary: In essays written over the course of more than a decade, Kathryn Harrison has created a beautifully detailed and rigorously honest family album. With tenderness and wisdom, compassion and humor, Harrison writes about the things we don’t always discuss, casting light on what lurks beneath the surface of everyday life, sifting through the artifacts of memory to find what haunts and endures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HARHarrison, Kathryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: A New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years earlier during a college reunion, an encounter that leads to shocking revelations about their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrison, Kathryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HARHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: The interwoven lives of two doomed women during the Spanish Inquisition, both accused of being witches. One is Francesca, a merchant's daughter who had an affair with a priest, the other is Queen Maria Luisa who has failed to produce an heir. One will perish at the stake, the other by being poisoned. By the author of Exposure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrison, Kathryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THERESE OF LISIEUX HARHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: Sent north to Anchorage, Alaska, to establish an observatory in 1915, Bigelow, a young scientist, finds himself unprepared for the loneliness of a frontier railroad town and becomes driven by his all-consuming love for an enigmatic woman known as the Aleut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrison, Valerie I.
Summary: "This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2021