O'Callaghan, Billy
Summary: A portrait of life in Ireland follows sixteen-year-old Nancy Martin, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, as she embarks on an affair with a handsome gardener, setting off a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCAO'Callaghan, Billy
Summary: "Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm Tóibín, evokes the long love affair between a man and a woman, each married to another, who meet every month in a decaying hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn. These beautiful, carefully-rationed days have long sustained Michael and Caitlin's love, and have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCAPeter, Gareth
Summary: A child describes all of the adventures she has with her two daddies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETRussell, Gareth
Summary: This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinating vignettes from her long life, including her coming of age during World War I and the 1936 abdication of her brother-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH RUSCallaghan, Tom
Summary: In this neo-noir set in the mountainous Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, hard-bitten inspector Akyl Borubaev mourns the recent death of his beloved wife--the only humanizing force in his otherwise bleak life as a homicide detective in Bishkek. As he struggles to face his personal pain, Borubaev is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman whose horribly mutilated body is found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALEarth.
Contents: Mirage -- Land of some other order -- The dire and ever circling wolves -- Left in the desert -- Lens of unrectified night -- An inquest concerning teeth -- Ralford (The felon wind) -- The dry lake -- Tethered to the polestar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Lord 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EarthSummary: Early one morning in his modern New York apartment, Jimmy O'Leary is told of the death of his mother, Catherine. The news spirits him back to the Ireland of his childhood in the 50's; an Ireland of scholars and sinners and fumbling sexual encounters, an unholy alliance of religion and politics, where old feuds die hard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROCallaghan, Louise
Summary: "After two and a half years of ISIS occupation, and months of fighting between the militants and government forces, the Mosul Zoo was one of the few outdoor attractions still standing in Iraq's second city, its inhabitants kept alive by Abu Laith, a square-set 50-something mechanic and passionate animal lover. As the animals began to starve under the siege by advancing Iraqi army forces, Abu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAITH, ABU CALO'Callaghan, Timothy J.
Summary: A chronicle of the development of Ford aviation, based upon the discovery of a Flivver airplane built in 1945 as well as the discovery of the LaCroix papers which documents Ford Motor Company's efforts in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Proctor Publications, LLC. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 OCAEarth
Contents: Indhold: Datura's Crimson Veils(12:15 min) -- Exaltation of Larks(3:19 min) -- Cats on the Briar(5:56 min) -- The Colour of Poison(5:31 min) -- Descending Belladonna(5:11 min) -- She Rides an Air of Malevolence(11:27 min) -- Maiden's Catafalque(2:49 min) -- An Unnatural Carousel(6:51 min) -- The Mandrake's Hymn(5:03 min) -- A Wretched Country of Dusk(4:28 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sargent House 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EARBrown, Gareth
Summary: When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWilliams, Gareth
Summary: "An insightful history of the first hundred years of DNA, Unraveling The Double Helix tells the story one of the greatest triumphs of modern science. Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s to the publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the establishment of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 WILWilliams, Gareth (EDT)/ Pentz, Peter (EDT)/ Wemhoff, Matthias (EDT)/ Margrethe, Queen of Denmark (FRW)
Contents: Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams -- Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen -- Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams -- The way of the warrior / Neil Price -- Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland -- Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 948.022 VIKHanrahan, Gareth
Summary: "Many years ago, Sir Aelfric and his nine companions saved the world, seizing the Dark Lord's cursed weapons, along with his dread city of Necrad. That was the easy part. Now, when Aelfric - keeper of the cursed sword Spellbreaker - learns of a new and terrifying threat, he seeks the nine heroes once again. But they are wandering adventurers no longer. Yesterday's eager heroes are today's weary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHinds, Gareth
Summary: The epic tale of the great warrior Beowulf has thrilled readers through the ages — and now it is reinvented for a new generation with Gareth Hinds’s masterful illustrations. Grendel’s black blood runs thick as Beowulf defeats the monster and his hideous mother, while somber hues overcast the hero’s final, fatal battle against a raging dragon. Speeches filled with courage and sadness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC HINMoore, Gareth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carlton Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 MOOPeter, Gareth
Summary: A boy and his mothers build a treehouse fit for a prince.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETRoberts, Gareth
Summary: Time Lord Professor Chronotis, having since retired to Cambridge University, absent-mindedly lends a very powerful book to clueless graduate student Chris Parsons, and must retrieve it from him before the evil Time Lord Skagra steals it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9339 ROWHinds, Gareth
Summary: "The beloved New York Times best-selling YA fantasy by Kristin Cashore is now available as a graphic novel, with stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Gareth Hinds. Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GRAHinds, Gareth
Summary: Retells in graphic novel format Homer's epic tale of Odysseus the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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Summary: From number games and logic puzzles to code breakers and enigmas, it's packed with secret-agent and spy challenges to put kids' mental agility and lateral-thinking skills to the test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buster Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 MOOPowell, Gareth
Summary: The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWPowell, Gareth
Summary: "From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge abroad an abandoned, slower-than-light generation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019