Eco, Umberto.
Summary: In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOSummary: As China continues to experiment with Western-style economics, many city dwellers already enjoy the prerogatives of a market economy. But how will China feed itself as more and more farmers flee their land for the allure of urban living? This program seeks to understand the effects of economic reform on Chinese society, from the villages to the cities. Will cultural values and the traditional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Unlike its neighbors, Thailand has never been colonized or annexed-but keeping it that way has been a stern challenge. This program examines Thailand's political independence, which is based on democratic and generally peaceful rule by a culturally supported monarchy. However, growing dissatisfaction has caused grass-roots dissent, as demonstrated by the lyrics of pop music idol d Karabao, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Containing nearly a sixth of the world's population, India is home to almost a billion people, more than half of whom live in rural villages. This program provides an overview of topics such as the caste system as it exists in the holy Hindu town of Varanasi and the massive pilgrimages to Allahabad, where millions of Hindus come to ritually bathe at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In Iran, even laughter is considered sinful by the nation's strict Shiite regime. Yet after revolution and war, Iranians cherish hopes of a freer future. This program describes the impact of life in a modern fundamentalist society on Iran's diverse population, which includes Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It also spotlights the joyful celebration of Sizdah Bedar, which welcomes the spring; the...
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Summary: Impoverished, sparsely populated, and still recovering from the Vietnam War, Laos exists on the edge of the abyss. This program considers the cultural and economic impact on Laotians and Hmong alike of initiatives designed to improve the country, such as the new highway being built by Swedish engineers. Although the regime's "reeducation camps" show no signs of being closed and antigovernment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Sophocles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 SOPSummary: Renamed Myanmar by its ruling junta, Burma is one of the world's poorest nations due to decades of iron-fisted military control and despite its valuable natural resources and priceless national treasures. This program presents an intriguing glimpse of Burmese life, ranging from washing the sacred Buddha at the Maha Muni Pagoda and the initiation of young Buddhist novices amid the ruins of Bagan...
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Summary: Situated in western Asia, Pakistan occupies a region of political and economic tension. This program looks at Pakistan's complex relations with Iran, India, and the United States and the contributions of its multicultural population. The influences of Punjabi and Pathan, Sindhi and Baluchi, and Ismaili and Buddhist are all captured, set against the background of life both in cities and in rural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Aeschylus.
Summary: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the only extant trilogy among the Greek tragedies, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. Beginning with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, and continuing through Orestes' murder of Clytemnestra in Libation Bearers and his acquittal at Athena's court in Eumenides,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882.01 AESSophocles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882.01 SOPGuterson, David.
Summary: Although Guterson teaches other children in a public high school, he and his wife teach their own four children at home. "The most important lesson he has to teach is that no matter where education takes place, family matters; homeschooling is just one way of embodying that neglected truth and reaffirming the bond between parents and children."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.68 GUTGrandin, Temple.
Summary: Animal scientist Temple Grandin argues that people with autism think the way animals think and draws from her experiences with autism to discuss how animals think, act, and feel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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Summary: Willie Stark, a well-intentioned, idealistic, back-country lawyer is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Warren 2002Niffenegger, Audrey.
Summary: Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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Summary: In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
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Summary: An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRuge, Eugen
Summary: An enthralling story of an East German family through the long years of communism and its aftermath, this novel flows both back and forth in time, creating a panoramic view of a family's saga and a country that has vanished into memory and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGCameron, Barbara
Summary: "After Rose's husband dies, she longs to be near her family, especially her twin sister, Lillian, so she packs up her young son and leaves her life in Ohio to move back to Paradise, Pennsylvania. Luke Miller is new to Paradise and is enjoying getting to know Rose, the quiet, reserved widow. Then he notices that her son looks an awful lot like his cousin. and Rose gets prickly when he mentions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gilead Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMGould, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 GOUBracken, Alexandra
Summary: When the Children's League disbands, Ruby becomes a leader and forms an unlikely alliance with Liam's brother, Cole, but competing ideals threaten the mission to uncover the cause of IANN and free psi children from the camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Bracken 2018Grenville, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GrenvHirsch, Edward.
Summary: This volume presents an exploration of poetry and feeling, introducing poems selected by the author as emblematic because they suggest something crucial about the nature of peotry itself, and offering his insights on how the poems should be read. In this guide, the author reaches out to all those who may be disaffected by the mere mention of poetry and instructs the reader to fucus on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1955