Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BROClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP MYS CLAJensen, Danielle L.
Summary: Her life in danger for meddling in the plots of the most powerful man in the Celendor Empire, Lydia flees to the far side of the Endless Seas. Killian is Marked by the God of War, but his gifts fail him when the realm under the dominion of the Corrupter invades Mudamora. With Mudamora falling beneath the armies of the Corrupter, Lydia and Killian strike a bargain to save those they love most....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JENLessing, Doris May
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESElba, Idris
Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY THRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THREliot, George
Summary: One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830-32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Eliot 2011Esslemont, Ian C. (Ian Cameron)
Summary: "Darujhistan, city of dreams, city of blue flames, is peaceful at last; its citizens free to return to politicking, bickering, trading and, enjoying the good things in life. Yet there are those who will not allow the past to remain buried. A scholar digging in the plains stumbles across an ancient sealed vault. The merchant Humble Measure schemes to drive out the remaining Malazan invaders. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESSHull, Cindy L.
Summary: I want him out of my business and out of my life.” When Barbara Vogel confided this to her friends in The Havens, a Florida retirement community, no one suspected that Barbara would soon lay dead in her home with a bullet wound in her chest. And that days later, an Hispanic laborer would be found dead with Barbara’s gun and jewelry in his possession. Soon arrives anthropologist Claire Aguila,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HULLaHaye, Tim F.
Summary: Biblical scholar Michael Murphy searches for the Lost Temple of Dagon and the dark secrets of the strange god once worshipped by the ancient Philistines. He explores one of the most carefully guarded Biblical prophecies, a prophecy of false miracles and false messiahs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHSholes, Lynn
Summary: Cotten Stone must unravel the mystery surrounding a claim that holy grail has been discovered in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOSummary: Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BALBrookner, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLADrabble, Margaret
Summary: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAFang, Lizhi.
Summary: Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. His devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him in trouble. In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FANG, LIZHI FANFortier, Anne
Summary: Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse. Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORLewis, M. B.
Summary: "A quest to save the world... a secret that could change it. Forever. Kadie Jenkins is a survivor. Now part of an elite group of scholars and scientists, their mission is to stop an impending global terrorist threat. But when a colleague is murdered in Egypt, Kadie finds herself pitted against a foe more terrifying than the one they were trying to stop. Teaming up with a renegade pilot and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWMoore, Graham
Summary: When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moore 2010Newmark, Elle.
Summary: In 1947, as Britain loses its grip on India, Evie Mitchell and her husband and son are forced to hole up in a small Indian village, where Evie discovers a cache of letters that leads her to the compelling story of two nineteenth-century Englishwomen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWWalker, Martin
Summary: When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's past. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: It follows a global movement of faithful Muslims inspired by the teachings of Fethullah Gulen halfway around the globe. Preaching social activism, dialogue, education and peace, Gulen has now inspired two generations of educators and humanitarian workers where they are most needed around the globe but couldn't escape from controversy in his home country and abroad. In 2013, Time Magazine named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOVBlake, Olivie
Summary: "The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six-guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BlakeGovinda, Anagarika Brahmacari.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press. 2005
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Summary: “How many anthropologists usually die at your conferences?” This is the question Detective Roberto Salinas asks Dr. Claire Aguila after two mysterious deaths at a gathering of Maya scholars in Merida, Yucatán. When a souvenir vendor in a nearby town is murdered, the faculty members of the newly formed Keane College Mayanist Program find themselves under scrutiny from Mexican authorities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000