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Biography, Fine arts biography
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The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and…
writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced--sometimes successful, sometimes not--to bring his projects to fruition. Part-memoir, part-biography, 'Room to Dream' interweaves Lynch's own reflections on his life with the story of those times, as told by Kristine McKenna, drawing from extensive and explosive interviews with ninety of Lynch's friends, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and collaborators. Lynch responds to each recollection and reveals the inner story of the life behind the art. 2018.
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Christian fiction
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Zanna Lambright is finally marrying Jonny Ropp, and friends and family have come from far and wide to celebrate. Among…
them is young widow Rosemary Yutzy. Rosemary has taken over care of her in-law's family in addition to raising her own young daughter. Privately she still mourns her lost husband, Joe, and is unprepared for the changes in her life. As Rosemary struggles to see beyond her immediate joys and sorrows, will she embrace the outpouring of welcome and support from the people of Cedar Creek and accept this chance to open her heart to a more abundant life? Sequel to “Abby finds her calling”. c2012.
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General fiction, Historical fiction
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Impoverished Katherine Howard comes to Court as a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves. Although her heart belongs to another she…
agrees to marry Henry VIII after he rids himself of the unappealing Anne. 1995. (Queen of England series)
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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The author's personal experiences in Rome offer an interpretation of the city today as contrasted against the Renaissance, and the decadence of Hadrian's time. 1975, c1974.
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Fantasy, Ghost and horror stories
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Ignoring the warnings of an old friend, Rosemary and her husband move to an apartment in Manhattan which has been…
the scene of witchcraft, cannibalism, and suicide. Then Rosemary becomes pregnant under strange circumstances in a threatening environment. 2005, c1967.
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History, Ancient history, European history
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Rome's often bloody history unfolds as a pageant of patrons and parasites, saints and tyrants, poets and warriors. Reveals the…
influence of Greek customs, gods and art on life in Imperial Rome. 1985.
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LGBTQ+ fiction, General fiction, Romance
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With a hypochondriac mother, an older sister who dreams of being on reality TV, and Mom's live-in, unemployed slacker boyfriend…
passing for a family, it's no wonder Trisha is a loner. Tiring of never leaving her bedroom, the 14-year-old makes a plan for the summer: meet someone and make a friend. That friend turns out to be chain-smoking Rose, the classic dangerous friend, who introduces Trisha to life on the edge. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. 2005.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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Retired Professor Andrew Basnett is hard at work on a book when he receives a phone call from Felicity Silvester,…
his late wife's eighty-five-year-old cousin. She invites Andrew to spend Easter at her home, along with her son and family. Things are quiet until the body of Felicity's former housekeeper is found with a letter in her purse confessing to Felicity's murder. By morning Felicity is found dead. 1984.
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General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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The setting is London in the late 1950s. Penelope Hinton has been widowed. She needs time and understanding to develop…
an identity of her own rather than as half of something that no longer exists, a story that deals with the problems of loneliness and isolation. 1985.
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Family stories, General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Romance, Romantic suspense
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In the summer of 1947, war widow Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home in the English countryside. She has…
been sent to Rose Cottage by her grandmother to retrieve some family papers. But when she arrives, the papers have been stolen, and the villagers can only talk of prowlers - and ghosts. 1997.
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History, Ancient history
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A short and funny history of the Romans, their everyday lives and customs. Grades 2-4. 1998.
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History, United States history, War
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A reevaluation of the master-slave relationship in American history. 1975.
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History, Ancient history
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This is a compilation of primary sources in translation, covering Roman politics, art, literature, social history, and philosophy. The anthology…
has been designed to accompany the Open University course A293 Rome: The Augustan Age. 1981.
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Ghost and horror stories
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Roscoe's Leap is the name of the strange old house where Stephen and Hannah have grown up. For Hannah it…
means a place where the heating is always breaking down but for Stephen it is a place of secrets, a place where something once happened to him, something dark and terrifying. Grades 4-7. 1987.
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European history, Literature, Criticism
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This text sets the romantic literary movement back into its context of the nineteenth century. Marilyn Butler successfully divorces the…
works of writers such as Byron, Keats and Austen from their usual setting of the author's self-image, and places them against the wider background of Europe in the nineteenth century. A refreshing account of an era rich in English literature. 1981.
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Family stories
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Without a mother, Rosie is at the mercy of her father and thuggish brothers. Then one day a friend comes…
to the farm in the form of cockney housekeeper Heather Farley. But soon enough Heather vanishes, abandoning Rosie to her fate. Only when Thomas Farley comes to find his sister several years later, does Rosie learn the terrible truth about Heather and her family. Running away from home, she finds herself pursued by the man who brought ruin on her family. Is he out to get her too? Or could he have some other reason for chasing her? 2010, c1998.
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Award winning fiction, Family stories
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Set in 1933 in Spokane, Mississippi. The Logans, the only black family who own their land, wage a courageous struggle…
to remain independent, displeasing a white plantation-owner bent on taking their land. 1977 Newbery Medal winner. Followed by "Let the circle be unbroken" . For junior and senior high readers. 1997, 1976.
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Adventure stories, Award winning fiction, Historical fiction
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Lucinda is a lively 10-year-old who spends her spare time exploring New York City on roller skates. Her adventures reveal…
a picture of the city in 1890. 1937 Newbery Award winner. Grades 4-7. 1964, c1936.
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Movie and television tie-ins, Romance
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The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the world of inherited wealth,…
fast cars and glamorous women. But betrayal and tragedy strike as the original 'angry young man' of the fifties pursues his goals. 2000, 1957.
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Adventure stories, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers, War stories
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Newly inaugurated President Joseph Gardner pledged to start pulling U. S. forces out of Iraq on his first day of…
office. Meanwhile, former President Kevin Martindale and retired Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan have left government behind for the lucrative world of military contracting. Their private firm, Scion Aviation International, has been hired by the Pentagon to take over aerial patrols in northern Iraq. Yet when Iraq quickly re-emerges as a hot zone, can the president rein Scion in? Violence and strong language. 2009.