Summary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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Summary: A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: A tale inspired by the September 1920 bombing in New York's financial district finds a Harvard-trained physician and a New York Police Department captain teaming up after witnessing the explosion and encountering a beautiful French scientist with a troubled brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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Summary: Seemingly unrelated stories attempt to recreate and identify the writer of a novel once read by the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy escapes from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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Summary: The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 RUBCodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.6 ANDMiedoso, Andres
Summary: After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: Twin sisters Diane and Lisa Pierman--one a lawyer, the other a caterer--see red when a thug who raped them goes free. Subsequently, the man is shot in a restaurant and witnesses say it was either Diane or Lisa, they look so alike. Prosecutor Sal Milano, Diane's beau, charges both with murder, but how to prove it? Neither woman is talking and the city of Santa Monica is hailing them as heroines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUSummary: A father and son live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world. Sometimes they seem like brothers, at other times they appear to be like lovers. Following in his father's footsteps, the son, Alexei attends military school. He likes sports and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Alexei's relationship with his father. Alexei's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1989
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Summary: "So Recently Rent a World gathers new poems and selections from the 16 books of verse that Codrescu has published since arriving in the U.S. as a teen refuge from communist Romania...'So Recently Rent a World let me to put a period on four decades writing and the old culture that the writing reflected."--The Times-Picayune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2012
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Summary: A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Penguin Lost finds Viktor Zolotaryov sneaking back into Kiev under an assumed identity to undertake a dangerous mission: He wants to find Misha, his penguin, whom he fears has fallen into the hands of the criminal mob looking for Viktor himself. Guilt-ridden and determined to do what it takes, Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who employs him in an election-rigging campaign, in return for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2011
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Summary: Desmond and Andres visit the acquarium where they discover a mermaid whose song puts anyone who hears it under a spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: For this case, Desmond and Andres off to the zoo! Zoo field trips are the best. You get to ride in a bus, you get to spend the day outside, and all the animals are safely far away in their enclosures. Nothing scary here, right? Wrong! Leave it to Desmond Cole to find the one zookeeper who’s also a zombie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN DIVCherny, Andrei.
Summary: Cherny tells the gripping saga of a rag-tag band of Americans--with limited resources and little hope for success--keeping West Berliners alive in the face of Soviet tyranny, winning the hearts and minds of former enemies, and giving the world a shining example of fundamental goodness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA/St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 CODRosenfeld, Lucinda.
Summary: Living lives carefully constructed by their loving but domineering mother, three politically connected sisters enter midlife while struggling with unexpressed anger, failed relationships and their mother's freak accident, which compel them to reevaluate their prospects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013