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Summary: Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni--one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AUESteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEJames, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book-of-the-Month Club 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JamesSteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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Summary: A compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel's beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata's enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla is training to become a Zelandoni, one of the community's spiritual leaders and healers. She becomes the acolyte to the Zelandoni for the Ninth Cave and begins the series of intensive journeys that are part of the sacred training. But as she struggles to find a balance between her calling and her duties as a new mother, her pursuits begin to take a toll on her relationship with Jondalar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AUEAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALCRollins, James
Summary: A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore leads Commander Gray Pierce into a mystery that is connected to horrific Nazi experiments, an insidious madness affecting Buddhist monks, a possible mythological beast run amok in South Africa, and a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLLustbader, Eric.
Summary: With an exceptionally sharp mind and seemingly unnatural powers, Jack McClure works as a Special Advisor to his good friend, the U.S. President. When a distinguished senator is found dead on the island of Capri, Jack scours Eastern Europe for clues. However, after discovering that the Russian mob has ties deep within his own government, Jack finds himself on the run from a world-beating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan, Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUSLustbader, Eric.
Summary: Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions--Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter--and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUSKellogg, Marne Davis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELLaestadius, Ann-Helén
Summary: "On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa-daughter of Sámi reindeer herders-sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAEEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSKeahey, John
Summary: "A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023