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Ability Fiction Computer animation Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Lawyers England London History 16th century Fiction Science fiction Senses and sensation Shardlake, Matthew (Fictitious character) Fiction Superheroes Fiction Survival FictionGregory, Susanna
Summary: Cambridge University is in dire financial straits--the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels and the plague years have left the colleges with scant resources. Tension between town and gown is at a boiling point and soon explodes into violence and death. Into this maelstrom comes a charismatic physician whose healing methods owe more to magic than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESansom, C. J
Summary: "As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. As heretics are hunted across London, and radical Protestants are burned at the stake, the Catholic party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSansom, C. J.
Summary: It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved--their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSansom, C. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the tongue works to help us taste. Describes how nerves in the tongue send messages to the brain to tell us what we taste"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.87 GANGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the nose works to help us smell. Describes how nerves in the nose send messages to the brain to tell us what we smell"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 GANGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the eyes work to help us see. Describes how the parts of the eye take in light and how the nerves in the eye send messages to the brain to tell us what we see"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.84 GANPlatt, Christine
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.026 PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: This title introduces readers to Harriet Tubman and how she became a shero to free as many slaves as possible through the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 973.71 PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Cleopatra and how she became a shero and one of the most famous female rulers of all time" --www.abdobooks.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932.02 PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Sacagawea and how she became a shero for one of America's most famous expeditions. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO."--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 PLAFrost, Helen
Summary: Simple text and photographs present the sense of smell and how it works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 FROFrost, Helen
Summary: Uses simple text and photographs to explain how the sense of touch works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.88 FROGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the ears work to help us hear. Describes how the parts of the ear take in sound and how the nerves in the ear send messages to the brain to tell us what we hear"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.85 GANSteck, Ryan
Summary: Waiting to be deployed on a critical mission, elite Marine Raider Matthew Redd stops to help a stranger and wakes up hours later to learn his team was wiped out in an ambush. Unable to remember anything, Redd can't deny the possibility that he's somehow responsible for the information leak that led to the massacre. He's given a deal to avoid a charge of treason, but it means walking away from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBlock, Lawrence
Summary: High-volume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Kenan Khoury, heroin wholesaler to the five boroughs, haggled over the price, and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he can trust to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOMcCammon, Robert.
Summary: December 1703 finds Berry Grigsby living as Mary Lynn Nash in a small English village where she has fallen victim to Professor Fell's involuntary drug experiments. Her mind is quickly deteriorating under the drug's influence, and the only way to save her is a potion book that was stolen in an attack on the village orchestrated by a mysterious madman going by the name Cardinal Black. Matthew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSansom, C. J
Summary: When a distant relative of Princess Elizabeth is found dead, Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate the murder, which may have connections reaching to a peasant rebellion sweeping the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSteck, Ryan
Summary: "On an island off the coast of Spain, Matthew Redd and his FBI fly team surveil a luxury villa in hopes of catching a high-value fugitive. But when Redd leads an unauthorized raid on the villa, he discovers they've been set up, and he is sent home to face the consequences of defying orders. Meanwhile, Redd's wife, Emily, is on a remote stretch of Montana road driving their sick baby to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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Summary: Conclusion to the New York Times Bestselling Matched Trilogy! Cassia's journey began with an error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect façade of the Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper smuggled against her skin, ready for the final chapter. The wait is over. One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.6 HELWesterfeld, Scott
Summary: As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESSummary: Why are humans so responsive to touch? This program calculates the different sensitivities of the body's most receptive parts. The density of touch sensors in the skin explains why some parts of the body seem to have a much lower pain threshold-a microscopic splinter in a finger can be extremely painful, while a cut on your leg may not hurt as much. University College London professor Tony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006