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Germans Canada Fiction Life change events Fiction Mathematicians England Oxford Fiction Murder Investigation England Oxford Fiction Mystery fiction Neuropsychology Nova Scotia Fiction Oxford (England) Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Canada FictionHitchcock, Jane Stanton.
Summary: "A serial killer is on the loose in Washington, D.C. The latest female victim has just been found in Georgetown, the social heart of the nation's capitol. That's how Reven Lynch, a well brought up society insider with a thriving high-end antique shop, meets George Gunner, a canny detective with the style of a hip-hop star, assigned to a special task force investigating the murders. Gunner is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HITPeters, Elizabeth.
Summary: Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. Along the way, she meets up with Evelyn Barton-Forbes, the Emerson brothers, and a lively mummy. How Amelia arranges all to her satisfaction is just one of the pleasures of theis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PETBadger, Anthony J.
Summary: Anthony J. Badger details the first one hundred days of the United States' 32nd president, focusing on how President Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress created and enacted the New Deal and reformed the depressed country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BADCarroll, Jonathan
Summary: Just after a man falls in the snow and hits his head on a stone curb, a ghost arrives to take his spirit to the afterlife. But there's one problem--the man isn't dead. Flabbergasted, the ghost appeals to his boss for further direction, only to be instructed to stay with the man until the problem is worked out. Things get even more complicated when the ghost falls deeply in love for the man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCather, Willa
Summary: Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daughter of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Cather 2007Yglesias, Rafael
Summary: This is the story of the relationship between Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret. Spanning thirty years, the novel alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children--and to Enrique. Inspired by the author's own marriage to his wife who died in 2004, this achingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC YGLSellers, Heather
Summary: At her twentieth high school reunion, author and creative writing professor Heather Sellers discovered that she had inherited illness: face-blindness. In a normal brain, a series of processes in the fusiform face area allow people to recognize old faces. But in Sellers' case, these processes do not occur. Here, Sellers recounts how she has coped with her condition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Sellers 2010Carr, Nicholas G.
Summary: Describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind", from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, the author makes a convincing case that every information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 CARHarrison, Jim
Summary: Novellas comprising a sweeping tribute to the nation's heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARNorman, Howard A.
Summary: Orphaned by the sudden suicides of both his parents (who discovered they were in love with the same woman), seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is taken in by his aunt and uncle in the small town of Middle Economy, Novia Scotia, where he is apprenticed to his uncle's toboggan business and falls in love with his ravishing adopted cousin, Tilda. Setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NORMartn̕ez, Guillermo
Summary: When an Argentine math student discovers the smothered body of his landlady, conventional wisdom points to a family member with the most prosaic of motives. But then renowned logician Arthur Seldom, author of a book on the mathematics of serial killers, tells of a strange note left in his mailbox. The note indicates that the murder is the first in a series linked by a mysterious pattern. Each...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007