Miller, Sue

Summary: "Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home--home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIL

Miller, Sue

Summary: A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2014

Ball, Jesse

Summary: "How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Wambaugh, Joseph.

Summary: "From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as 'The Onion Field' and 'The Choirboys', comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, 'the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century'. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr would watch in awe as firefighters scrambled to put out blazes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.164 WAM

Summary: Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner, and discovers Dracula's true nature.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COU

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

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Kaplan, Robert D.

Summary: "A history of Romania traces the author's intellectual development throughout his extensive visits to the country, sharing his observations about its reflection of European politics, geography and key events while exploring the indelible role of Vladimir Putin."--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KAP

Muller, Herta.

Summary: From the winner of the IMPAC Award comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUL

Wurmbrand, Richard.

Summary: "This classic story of amazing faith in shocking circumstances has been updated for a new generation. Its message remains urgent and relevant: thousands of Christians are still persecuted and tortured around the world today, suffering solely for their belief in Jesus Christ. Richard Wurmbrand endured months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 272 WUR

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: "Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians arent free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Hes left with only two...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEP

Fanfare Ciocărlia

Contents: Kan marau la (4:31) -- Que dolor (3:55) -- Sandala (2:49) -- Pănă cănd nu te iubeam (4:06) -- Cuando tu volveras (4:30) -- Duj duj (3:56) -- Ibrahim (3:05) -- Ma maren ma (3:50) -- Mukav tu (2:09) -- Nakelavishe (2:58) -- Ma rov (4:38) -- Mig mig (3:19) -- Farewell march (1:36) -- Born to be wild (3:11)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Asphalt Tango Records 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN FAN