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Summary: Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the nature of their relationship, Catherine retreats into isolation. Delving into notebooks more than a century old, she feels a growing connection to Henry Brandling, who in 1854 gave life to a mechanical creature.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: "From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny--that takes us on a journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics. When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: "The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: Olivier is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected in the United States by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCarey, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gardners Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCarey, Peter.
Summary: Olivier, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States, ostensibly to make a study of the penal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Summary: Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the nature of their relationship, Catherine retreats into isolation. Delving into notebooks more than a century old, she feels a growing connection to Henry Brandling, who in 1854 gave life to a mechanical creature.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: This is the story of two men who begin their lives on different ends of the human spectrum. Olivier is an aristocrat, born in France just after the Revolution, while Parrot is the son of an itinerant English printer. Part of Carey's provocative genius is that, even in the title, Parrot is named before Olivier: it's the late 18th century and both men have swallowed the handcuffs of history. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex, really famous painter now reduced to living in the remote country house of his biggest collector and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotions. Together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero, describes how he, his brother, and two friends led authorities on a twenty-month manhunt, marked by widespread populist support, before his capture and execution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarey, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952 CARCarey, Peter W. (Peter Wright)
Summary: A definitive field guide to Antarctica, this book caters to South Pole visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Written by experienced Antarctic scientists and travel guides who are recognized experts in the continent's wildlife, conservation, and political history, every page offers gorgeous color photographs of the great white south.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Awa Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL ANTARCTICASummary: Based on the book by Peter Carey. The story of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they escape from authorities during the 1870s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TRUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRUSummary: Oscar is an Anglican priest who gambles discreetly and donates his winnings to help the poor. Lucinda is an Australian businesswoman who boldly defies the rules of 19th-century society. When they meet over an innocent game of cards, their passion for gambling leads them both down a road of romance, chance and fate that changes their lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE OSCSummary: "Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm features everyone's favorite rascals, the Aqua Teens - the brainy Frylock, the mouthy Master Shake, the loveable Meatwad, and everyone's favorite perverted neighbor, Carl - as they split up then get back together to fight everyone's favorite corporate overlord, Amazin, led by everyone's favorite tech mogul, Neil (voiced by everyone's favorite Peter Serafinowicz) and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV AQUCarey, Mike
Summary: "Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARCarey, Mike
Summary: "Cast out of Heaven, thrown down to rule in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his post and abandoned his kingdom for the mortal city of Los Angles. Emerging from the pages of writer Neil Gaiman's award-winning series The Sandman, the former Lord of Hell is now enjoying a quiet retirement as the propretor of Lux, L.A.'s most elite piano bar. A deadly new threat to all of Creation emerges...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUCCarey, Mike
Summary: Armed with his father's journals, Tom Taylor begins a journey across the United States that also takes him into the past - to the Golden Age of a new artistic medium and the birth of a new type of hero. But following in Wilson's footsteps creates dangerous echoes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARCarey, Mike
Summary: The fictional adventures of Tommy Taylor are the biggest publishing sensation of the still-young century. And now, years after the last volume, Tommy's creator Wilson Taylor--long missing and believed dead--is unleashing a brand-new Tommy Taylor book upon the world. There's just one problem: It's not a new Tommy Taylor book at all. This volume also includes the origin story of Lizzie Hexam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARCarey, Mike
Summary: The three immortals--Wilson, Rausch and Pullman--are moving toward their respective endgames. But when was the last time they were all in the same room together? Answer: half a century ago, in Oxford, England. And the reasons for whata they're doing now can be found in what they said to each other back then ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARCarey, Mike
Summary: A mysterious cabal keeps tabs on Tom Taylor when it learns that he might be a real-life boy wizard like the star of Tom's father's famous fantasy book series.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo 2012