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Assassins Rome Drama Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography Caesar, Julius Assassination Drama Conspiracies Rome Drama Family secrets Fiction Graphic novels Juliet (Fictitious character) Fiction Large type books Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Adaptations Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Film adaptationsNicolson, Juliet
Summary: "A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NICTaraborrelli, J. Randy.
Summary: The story of the family that established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry sheds new light on its enigmatic patriarch Conrad Hilton--who struggled with emotional detachment, failed marriages, and conflicted Catholicism--and his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TARPark, Barbara.
Summary: Eight adventures of Junie B. Jones in the First Grade.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Berkin, Carol.
Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BERWang, Qian Julie
Summary: "Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WANG, QIAN JULIE WANJolie, Raechel Anne
Summary: "Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOLIE, RAECHEL ANNE JOLFortier, Anne
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key, one carried by her mother on the day she herself died, to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. In Siena she discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC FORLeveen, Lois
Summary: A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Leveen 2014Wang, Qian Julie
Summary: In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." When seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. For five years she lived undocumented after immigrating with her parents to New York City. Shocked at where her family fits in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WANEmling, Shelley.
Summary: "Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE EMLColson, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLSON, EMILY COLNielson, Stephanie
Summary: Details how the author survived a horrific plane crash that left her with third degree burns over eighty percent of her body and learned to embrace the power of love, motherhood, community, faith, and the simple joys of everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIELSON, STEPHANIE NIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio NielsonPark, Barbara
Summary: When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PARMcGue, Julie Ryan
Summary: "Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers--which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues. To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGUE, JULIE RYAN MCGChavez, Julie
Summary: "For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet, the aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love, loss, a husband who isn't a mindreader, disastrous family outings, and finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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Summary: Chronicles how the Gallo family used a combination of toil, cunning, and crime to rise from hardscrabble poverty in the early 1900s and build the most successful wine company in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 TUCThiel, J. Homer
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Homer Thiel 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 THICarreras, Hernán
Summary: In this graphic version of Shakespeare's play, teenagers Romeo and Juliet, from rival families in Verona, fall deeply in love, with tragic consequences for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: "A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of JuliaHaart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAART, JULIA HAAJones, Wayne V.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1998
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 STUPark, Barbara.
Summary: Junie B. Jones learns some interesting things about the Tooth Fairy when she becomes the first student in Room One to lose an upper tooth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PARSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012