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The burning chambers 2Moore, Kate
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2018
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Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACMoore, Kate
Summary: 1860: Elizabeth Packard's husband, Theophilus, feeling threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts, has her committed to an insane asylum. The conditions in the asylum are horrific. But most disturbing is that many other rational women have also been committed not because they need treatment, but were instead conveniently labeled "crazy" so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 921 PACKARD, E.P.W. MOOMoore, Kate
Summary: "Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2020
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Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 MOOSummary: Travel back to the days of raging raptors and the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Plus, see some of the world's creepiest creatures such as spiders, ants, dung beetles, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV REACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV REASummary: Dive into fun and explore the world's oceans from surface to seafloor. Come face to face with great whales, friendly dolphins, scary sharks, and all the ocean's amazing treasures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV REAContents: Beautiful things / (Benson Boone) -- Used to be young / (Miley Cyrus) -- Yes, and? / (Ariana Grande) -- Exes / (Tate McRae) -- Houdini / (Dua Lipa) -- Murder on the dancefloor / (Sophie Ellis-Bextor) -- Everybody / (Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Uzi Vert) -- Breathe / (Yeat) -- Selfish / (Justin Timberlake) -- Saturn / (Sza) -- Never lose me / (Flo Milli) -- O my mamma / (Victoria Monet) -- Redrum /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWMosse, Kate
Summary: Joining her fellow English villagers in a misty churchyard on St. Mark's Eve, a taxidermist's daughter reflects on the mysterious downfall of her father's once-famous museum before discovering the body of a stranger whose death unlocks dark memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSContents: v. 1. (1934-1945) The continental / Fred Astaire -- Lullaby of Broadway / Dick Powell -- The way you look to-night / Fred Astaire -- Sweet Leilani / Bing Crosby -- Thanks for the memory / Bob Hope & Shirley Ross -- Over the rainbow / Judy Garland -- When you wish upon a star / Cliff Edwards -- The last time I saw Paris / Kate Smith -- White Christmas / Bing Crosby -- You'll never know / Dick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ENVMosse, Kate
Summary: "Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war. Alliances and Romance August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSMosse, Kate
Summary: Extraordinary Thriller, rich in the atmosphere of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two Women born centuries apart are linked by A common destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosse, Kate
Summary: In 1891, young Leonie Vernier arrive at the home of a young, willowy, and beautiful aunt in southwest France. Villagers claim that Leonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds. More than a century later an American graduate student, arrives to the same town while researching the life of Claude Debussy. There, a pack of Tarot cards and a piece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Punto De Lectura 2010