Sammartino, Alexander
Summary: "The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son's resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Recounts the life of the scientist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB EINSTEIN MCPMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino
Summary: "Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, scientist Katalin Karikó was one of the few people who believed in the potential of mRNA to help cells fight off disease. Breakthrough chronicles Karikó's relentless pursuit of knowledge and dedication to helping people, depicting her as an inspirational figure for readers interested in science. The book contextualizes Karikó's work within her upbringing in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 KARMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Relates the race to provide electricity to Americans with two different electric distribution systems, Thomas Edison's direct current and Nikola Tesla's alternating current.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.7932 MCPSamartin, Cecilia.
Summary: Cousins Alicia and Nora experience profound life changes from different perspectives when Castro's rise to power incites political turbulence and revolution in Cuba, forcing Alicia to flee the country with her parents while Nora remains behind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Describes the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, a luxury liner claimed to be "unsinkable" that was destroyed after colliding with an iceberg, killing over one thousand passengers onboard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.91634 MCPMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Traces the life of the wife of the first president of the United States, from her childhood in Virginia through her marriage to George Washington to her role in the American Revolution and the early years of the new country's history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WASHINGTO MCPAlexandre, Frédérique
Summary: "At last, a baby knits collection specifically designed to make pattern instructions as easy as can be! Take your pick of 34 designs for a baby's wardrobe that couldn't be simpler. With even the most complicated pattern instructions, finishing techniques, and sizing changes laid out using Marie Claire's straightforward, easy-to-understand method, knitters of all levels of experience can create...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 ALEDesplat, Alexandre
Contents: The midnight sky (3:31) -- Aether spaceship (3:32) -- Mission (4:22) -- Iris in the stars (4:30) -- Evacuation (2:46) -- Families & friends (2:29) -- In the Milky Way (2:54) -- A child (1:55) -- Peas battle (3:20) -- First alert (3:51) -- Crashed plane (5:20) -- The ice breaks (3:07) -- Visual on Earth (3:03) -- Survivors (3:12) -- Is there hope? (7:42) -- Changing route (3:54) -- Asteroids...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MIDAlender, Katie
Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEAlender, Katie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEDesplat, Alexandre
Contents: We are here (1:49) -- Torrance tornado (2:56) -- Coming home (2:17) -- Olympic kick (3:47) -- God made the stars (1:40) -- Surprise Mac attack (1:39) -- Albatross (1:01) -- Mac's death (2:40) -- Solitary (1:43) -- Making gnocchi (1:11) -- Drive to Radio Tokyo (1:19) -- Japanese attack (3:30) -- Trip to Omori (2:52) -- Bombing Tokyo (1:43) -- Rain (1:28) -- Dead comrades (2:20) -- To Naoetsu...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC UNBDesplat, Alexandre.
Contents: The Queen -- Hills of Scotland -- People's princess I -- A new prime minister -- H.R.H. -- The stag -- Mourning -- Elizabeth & Tony -- River of sorrow -- The flowers of Buckingham -- The Queen drives -- Night in Balmoral -- Tony & Elizabeth -- People's princess II -- Queen of hearts -- Libera me / Verdi (Lynne Dawson, soprano; the BBC Singers; recorded at the funeral service for Diana, Princess...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC QUEDumas, Alexandre
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DUMDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Edmond Dantes, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated until his escape years later when he exacts his revenge on those who wronged him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions Limited 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dumas 2002Summary: On the streets of seventeenth century Paris, law and order is an idea more than a reality. In addition to being King Louis XIII's personal bodyguards, Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and their new friend D'Artagnan, stand resolutely for social justice, honor, valor, love, and for the thrill of it all. They must fight to maintain order and protect their King and Queen against the worst intentions of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Edmund Dantes, unjustly accused and imprisoned for conspiring with Napoleon Bonaparte, eventually escapes from his unbearable captivity, uncovers a treasure and begins his long repressed vengeance against those who betrayed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P DUMDumas, Alexandre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMDumas, Alexandre
Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMDumas, Alexandre
Summary: During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DUMDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Alexandre Dumas was one of the most prolific and celebrated writers in the nineteenth century. His best-known works are historical epics richly infused with romance, intrigue, passion, suspense, and swashbuckling adventure. This collection brings together three novels that are the cornerstones of his literary legacy - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMH Leander D'Entremont
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: James S. White Co. 1922
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMDesplat, Alexandre.
Contents: Painted veil -- Gnossienne no 1 / Erik Satie -- Colony club -- River waltz -- Kitty's theme -- Death convoy -- Water wheel -- Lovers -- Promenade -- Kitty's journal -- Deal -- Walter's mission -- Convent -- River waltz -- Morning tears -- Cholera -- End of love -- Funeral -- From Shanghai to London.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2006