Filter By Subjects
Age factors in disease Aging Great Britain Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Drama Great Britain History Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 Drama Health Longevity Prisonniers de guerre Japon Biographies Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England Elizabeth 1465-1503 Drama VII, King of England Henry 1457-1509 DramaFilter By Subjects
Age factors in disease Aging Great Britain Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Drama Great Britain History Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 Drama Health Longevity Prisonniers de guerre Japon Biographies Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England Elizabeth 1465-1503 Drama VII, King of England Henry 1457-1509 DramaFlanagan, Richard
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined. Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFlanagan, Richard
Summary: "A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFlanagan, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFlanagan, Richard
Summary: One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting , a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island s...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFlanagan, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFlanagan, Richard
Summary: "From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit--an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying--if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFlanagan, Richard
Summary: "By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The white princess is a tale of power, family, love and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII officially marks of the conclusion of the War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHIFlanigan, Richard J.
Summary: Discusses strategies to prevent the ten deadliest diseases in America, while offering tips on reducing the threats to health and extending life span.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Williams Clark Pub. 2007