Chao, Rosalind
Summary: When a young woman is sold into marriage by her poor father, she instead winds up in an Idaho gold mining town, where she finds direction in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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Summary: "From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer--and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 MCCMcCann, Colum
Summary: Presents a fictional account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev, following his first ballet lessons under Anna Vasileva, his relationship with the ambitious Yulia, and his experiences with Venezuelan hustler Victor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: In the National Book Award--winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called "an emotional tour de force." Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCann, Colum
Summary: A story collection includes the title novella, in which an octogenarian retired judge's musings on his life are interrupted by police updates about his murder later that afternoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCann, Colum
Summary: A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCann, Colum
Summary: "Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCann, Colum
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 1996
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Summary: As fascism spreads across 1930s Europe, Zoli Novotna, a young Gypsy poet, and her grandfather seek refuge with a clan of Romani harpists, where her fame as a poet leads to a flight to the West as she struggles to find where she truly belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCann, Colum
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009
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Summary: Newfoundland, 1919: Aviators Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Dublin, 1845 and '46: On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause. New York, 1998: Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HUMSummary: Inspired by the true story of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin. This is about an Irish journalist who investigates the world of violent crime and the bosses who control the drugs and the violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHELum, Debbie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRYSummary: Private eye Rigby Reardon is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate the mysterious death of her father--a wealthy scientist, philanthropist, and chessemaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEALum, Kate.
Summary: "When Princesses Mellie, Allie, and Libby begin to argue about which princess is the prettiest, they decide to hold a contest. But of course, the girls get side-tracked helping others on their way to the contest leaving Princess Mellie as the muddiest, Princess Allie as the yuckiest, and Princess Libby as the drippiest. But due to their kindness, the princesses win in the end"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LUMMcDunn, Gillian
Summary: According to eleven-year-old Annie, luck is never on her side causing her to be somewhat of a loner, but after some prodding by her social studies teacher Annie relunctantly tries her fortune at making friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDContents: Prayer for peace = Harachaman : Hebrew (by Rebbe Soul) (4:26) -- Lake of exploits : Hindu (by Jai Uttal) (4:32) -- Shaman : Sikh (by Lorellei, Singh Kaur) (6:09) -- Kalamune : Islamic (by Musa Dieng Kala) (4:29) -- Hanacpchap cussicunin : Catholic (by Savae Vocal Ensemble) (3:25) -- Praise to Tara : Tibetan Buddhist (by Nada Shakti) (5:00) -- Hare Krsna maha mantra : Krsna (by Krsna Prema Das)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soundings of the Planet 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS PRAEmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EMREmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god, Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, emerging without a past or a future. Now it's 1949, and the government that stole Aphra's life needs her help. FBI Agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2017