Summary: "Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. Spirit possession has been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50countries for a week-long seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set...
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Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Contents: Craining -- The Somme -- Testing -- Aerial fighting -- Home defence -- Overseas again -- Civil flying -- The voyage east -- Teaching the Chinese to fly.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, CECIL LEWMarx, Karl
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 1992
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Summary: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by...
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Summary: Interesting philosophical ideas written by Seneca. These letters illustrate the ideals admired by the Stoics and reveal how far in advance of his time were many of Seneca's ideas.
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Contents: Introduction. The twenty-first-century portable Steinbeck by Susan Shillinglaw ; Introduction to the 1971 portable Steinbeck by Pascal Covici, Jr. -- From The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums -- From The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's -- From Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2000
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Summary: The story of the amoral beauty Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to climb the social ladder, and her sentimental companion Amelia, who falls for a caddish soldier, presents a panoramic satire of Regency society.
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBellow, Saul.
Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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Contents: Christmas festivities -- The story of the goblins who stole a sexton -- A Christmas episode from Master Humphrey's clock -- A Christmas carol -- The haunted man and the ghost's bargain -- A Christmas tree -- What Christmas is, as we grow older -- The seven poor travellers.
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Summary: An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRENatsume, Sōseki
Summary: "Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a math teacher after the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils - prone to playing tricks on their new, naive teacher; the staff - vain, immoral, and in danger of becoming a bad influence on Botchan; and from...
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Summary: The unusual voyages of Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him to such strange locales as Lilliput, where the inhabitants are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a nation ruled by horses.
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Summary: When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir to the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TWASummary: Synopsis: An illuminating collection of work by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Covering nearly three centuries of religious development, this comprehensive anthology brings together writings from prominent Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, show the nature of Quaker spiritual life, discuss Quaker contributions to European and American civilization, and...
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.609 HAMAusten, Jane
Summary: Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.
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Summary: Gathers stories about suicide, death, infidelity, dreams, hypnosis, adolescence, convent life, child abuse, and social outcasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOConfucius.
Summary: The classic collection of conversations and sayings by the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, containing his teachings on ethics, politics, and religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1979
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1996
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Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007