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2022., Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Tok Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank-a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day-is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries-those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is-The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence"--
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c2012., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Fic Gre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Order of darkness Volume: bk. one.Summary Note: In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
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2003, c1974., General, Paramount Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Daisy Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Widescreen DVD collection.Summary Note: " ... an expatriate American lives abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is very liberated and very much ahead of her time [and] scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878"--Container.
![Daisy Miller [DVD] (1974) Directed by Peter Bogdanovitch](/Library/images/~imageCT73991.JPG "Daisy Miller [DVD] (1974) Directed by Peter Bogdanovitch")
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Juvenile Call No: Fic Pra Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: "In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeney Todd"--.
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2002, c2001., Phoenix Call No: SC Fic Mas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Matter of eternal Rome Volume: 1st v.
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2011., Random House Call No: Fic Mas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, award-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason has written an unforgettable novel about an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe. When Marshall Stone returns to his crash site decades later, he finds himself drawn back in time to the brave people who helped him escape from the Nazis. He especially recalls one intrepid girl guide who risked her life to help him--the girl in the blue beret. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a U.S. flyboy stationed in England. Headstrong and cocksure, he had nine exhilarating bombing raids under his belt when enemy fighters forced his B-17 to crash-land in a Belgian field near the border of France. The memories of what happened next--the frantic moments right after the fiery crash, the guilt of leaving his wounded crewmates and fleeing into the woods to escape German troops, the terror of being alone in a foreign country--all come rushing back when Marshall sets foot on that Belgian field again. Marshall was saved only by the kindness of ordinary citizens who, as part of the Resistance, moved downed Allied airmen through clandestine, often outrageous routes (over the Pyrenees to Spain) to get them back to their bases in England. Even though Marshall shared a close bond with several of the Resistance members who risked their lives for him, after the war he did not look back. But now he wants to find them again--to thank them and renew their ties. Most of all, Marshall wants to find the courageous woman who guided him through Paris. She was a mere teenager at the time, one link in the underground line to freedom. Marshall's search becomes a wrenching odyssey of discovery that threatens to break his heart--and also sets him on a new course for the rest of his life. In his journey, he finds astonishing revelations about the people he knew during the war--none more electrifying and inspiring than the story of the girl in the blue beret. Intimate and haunting, The Girl in the Blue Beret is a beautiful and affecting story of love and courage, war and redemption, and the startling promise of second chances.
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c2010., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: Fic Pet Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Takes us through thirty-seven-year-old Arvid's life and its descent towards a moment of terrible crisis. It traces his parents' hesitant support when he gives up his place at college to work in a paper mill, like his father; his experiences as a fervent young Maoist in Norway in the 1960s; the death of his younger brother; the passionate, enveloping romance that led to marriage and children and, for a time, happiness; the failure of that relationship, and its transformation into a source of harrowing pain.
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-- I will keep you safe.2018., Quercus Call No: SC MYS Fic May Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made on her life, Niamh has to wonder if the motive is simply money, or something far more personal.
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c2014., Large Print Treasury Call No: LP Fic Twa Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![The innocents abroad [LP]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The innocents abroad [LP]")
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2006., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Ega Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story--a story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castle--that brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.--From publisher description.
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By Auel, Jean Mc2011., General, Crown Publishing Call No: Fic Aue Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Earth's children Volume: bk. 6Summary Note: 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.
