Mitchell, David
Summary: In this hilarious book that takes history seriously, a British actor and comedian introduces England's earliest kings and queens, who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits, revealing a story of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, uncivil wars and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.009 MITMitchell, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.815 MITMitchell, David.
Summary: Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2008
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Mitchell, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tarquin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.982 MITMitchell, David.
Summary: "A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as Japan's outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company. There, Jacob de Zoet has come to make a fortune large enough to return to Holland and marry the woman he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: "Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: "A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluentlymixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mitchell 2014Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: "Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mitchell 2020Summary: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLOSummary: When vacationing in Chile, an aging and pampered rock star's supermodel wife is suddenly kidnapped by renegades. Unable to navigate more than ordering a sandwich from room service, now he must take to the backstreets of Santiago in this hilarious caper that is as entertaining as it is hair-raising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GUNSummary: While there are some things people will never say or do, there's nothing they'll never think. Welcome to the private world of Jeremy and Mark - two very ordinary weirdos. Contains six episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PEESummary: When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: After a lengthy spell in a wellness center, Stephen returns to his provincial pub, refreshed and re-energized. Thankfully, Andrew, the formerly prodigal foster brother, has been managing affairs. But despite Stephen being back it's not all plain sailing. Stephen's sister Cass, resenting her mum's relationship with young boyfriend Julian, packs up and leaves home. Blunt and uncompromising Uncle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BACSummary: Stephen is finally taking over his father's pub, and he has a tough act to follow. His dad, Laurie, is a local hero. At least he was, until he died. There's only one problem: Stephen is a loser. And when the charismatic Andrew turns up at Laurie's funeral, Stephen's anxiety strikes. Andrew claims the short time he spent fostered by Stephen's family was the happiest of his life. But to Stephen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BACSummary: For nineteen-year-old Jay, the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR ITSummary: "Return to the world of two realities: everyday life... and what lies behind it. To truly know himself, Neo must follow the white rabbit once again into the Matrix. Of course, Neo already what he has to do. What he doesn't know is that the Matrix is more dangerous than ever. Déja vu" -- Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MATHigashida, Naoki
Summary: Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013