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Diana. Gabaldon
(1,977)
Summary: The second volume of a comprehensive companion guide to each book in the "Outlander" series includes a complete chronology of the series, a guide to research sources, a Scottish glossary and...
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Call #: 813.54 GAB
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Diana Gabaldon
(13,558)
Summary: A guide to the Outlander series, time-travel romances featuring Claire Beauchamp Randall, a Red Cross nurse. Included are synopses of novels, biographies, family trees and pronunciation help.
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Call #: 813.54 GAB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Fabien Nury
(1,339)
Summary: On March 1, 1953, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- Joseph Stalin -- had a severe stroke. A doctor could not be called until the Central...
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Call #: 741.59 NUR
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Jirō Taniguchi artist
Summary: After a group trip to Europe, a Japanese artist stops in Paris alone, intent on visiting the museums of the capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one...
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Call #: 741.59 TAN
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by
Fabien Nury
(158)
Summary: Based on the true story of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France in the 1920s and became one of the richest men in Europe as a scrap-metal magnate. During the Second World War he...
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by
Jack London
(352)
Summary: Miles across the sunless Yukon toward the Klondike to search for gold, a man and a dog trek through the Great White North, struggling to survive nature's frigid indifference. The year 1896 is bleak...
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Call #: 741.59 LON
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by
Pearl S. Buck
(681)
Summary: In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but...
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Call #: 741.59 BUC
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by
Antony Johnston
Series:
Coldest City
(360)
Summary: Eight years before "The Coldest City," Berlin froze. Antony Johnston returns to The Coldest City for a tale even more complex, compelling, and cold than the first! After a string of botched...
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Call #: 741.59 JOH
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by
Antony Johnston
Series:
Coldest City
(2,213)
Summary: As communism collapses and the Berlin Wall crumbles, an undercover M16 spy is killed while carrying priceless information -- a list containing the name of every spy in Berlin. But no list is found on his body.
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Call #: 741.59 JOH
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by
Garth Ennis
(315)
Summary: Three tales of lost innocence, tragedy and suspense set during World War II.
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Call #: 741.59 ENN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jamie Rhodes
(246)
Summary: Plunge into the rich and often dark history of Scotney Castle in Kent, a place that has witnessed the rule of more than thirty monarchs and been home to generations of different families, each with...
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Call #: 741.59 RHO
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by
Garth Ennis
(88)
Summary: Two riveting tales of war, as only bestselling graphic novelist Garth Ennis can deliver! In "The Green Fields Beyond," veteran Sergeant Stiles leads the Tankies on the killing fields of Korea during...
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Call #: 741.59 ENN
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by
Garth Ennis
(157)
Summary: Happy Valley: Young Australian Ken Harding arrives at his first operational squadron, keen to play his part in the aerial attack on Germany as the commander of a bomber crew. Losses have been high...
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Call #: 741.59 ENN
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by
Garth Ennis
(65)
Summary: Dreaming Eagles tells the true story of the first African-American fighter pilots to join the United States Army Air Force in WWII and whose humble beginnings in Tuskegee, Alabama propelled them into...
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Call #: 741.59 ENN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Baku Yumemakura
(367)
Summary: "Far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest, the white summit of Everest appeared" (George Mallory). In 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanished on Everest's North-East ridge,...
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Call #: 741.59 YUM
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(1,303)
Summary: "The foolish King Ethelred has fled, and Askeladd's band is one of hundreds plundering the English countryside. Yet victory brings no peace to the elderly Danish King Sweyn, who worries that his...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Ed Brubaker
(1,315)
Summary: "Hollywood, 1948--A noir film stuck in endless reshoots. A writer plagued by nightmares from the war. A movie starlet's suspicious death. Her replacement's suspicious past. And a mogul and his...
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Call #: 741.59 BRU
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(1,074)
Summary: In a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn,...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(925)
Summary: At the turn of the 11th century, the North Sea is in the grip of the Viking terror. The clever Askeladd leads his small band of mercenaries into London, with the aid of the ruthless young Thorfinn,...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(808)
Summary: "After the assassination of King Sweyn and the execution of Askeladd, Thorfinn lost the object of his vengeance, his sense of purpose, and his freedom. Now a broken young man, he labors far from the...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(696)
Summary: As Canute plots to become ruler of the entire Danish world, Thorfinn's only ambition is to see a harvest profitable enough to buy his own life back. But the fates of prince and slave will come...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(641)
Summary: "His army starving for resources, King Canute schemes to confiscate Ketil's farm. Ketil and his sons become fugitives, barely escaping the capital aboard Leif Ericson's ship, but Canute follows in...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(519)
Summary: Free at last, Thorfinn sets off on an expedition to Vinland, to establish a place free of war and slavery. In an effort to fund his project, Thorfinn visits Iceland where Halfdan, a wealthy man who...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(2,571)
Summary: "As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Paco Roca , artist
(656)
Summary: Francisco, a wounded, despairing sixteen-year-old Republican guard in the Spanish Civil War, is trying to flee to freedom by crossing the French border. In his escape, he encounters an old remote...
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Call #: 741.59 ROC
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(468)
Summary: Thorfinn and his crew are on their way to Greece, the first leg of their expedition to Vinland. Having landed near Bergen, in Norway, Thorfinn is attacked by a bear, only to be saved by a fierce...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(399)
Summary: After months of hard labor as a farm slave, Thorfinn begins to realize what his father meant by the words, "A true warrior needs no sword." Perhaps he can find a new purchase on life in the...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Saladin Ahmed
(1,684)
Summary: While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain...
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Call #: 741.59 AHM
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by
Mike Carey
(293)
Summary: In the country of Ossaniul, there is a fortress that is as disproportionate as it is inaccessible: the Highest House. Its masters, the noble family of Aldercrest, reign over a veritable army of...
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Call #: 741.59 CAR
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by
Satoru Noda , artist
Series:
Golden Kamuy
(186)
Summary: Shiraishi is a master escape artist, but he's not very good at evading capture! After the 7th Division captures Shiraishi, Sugimoto and Hijikata join forces in an uneasy alliance to rescue him. With...
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Call #: 741.59 NOD
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by
Satoru Noda , artist
Series:
Golden Kamuy
(179)
Summary: In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him,...
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Call #: 741.59 NOD
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by
Satoru Noda , artist
Series:
Golden Kamuy
(153)
Summary: In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him,...
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Call #: 741.59 NOD
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by
Makoto Yukimura
Series:
Vinland Saga
(277)
Summary: Thanks to his claim by lineage, the attackers surrounding Jomsborg want Thorfinn to be their leader, but it is a mantle he intensely rejects. When the battle for leadership over the powerful...
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Call #: 741.59 YUK
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by
Baku Yumemakura
(329)
Summary: "Climbing is all I have. I climb." Photographer Fukamachi is visiting Habu's home when the felon Mohan turns up demanding the missing Kodak but is foiled when his previous captor shoots and wounds...
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Call #: 741.59 YUM
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by
Baku Yumemakura
(286)
Summary: The scene is finally set for Habu's challenge of the South West face of Everest in winter, solo and without oxygen. Fukamachi has accompanied him so far but must now descend to base camp and leave...
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Call #: 741.59 YUM
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by
Baku Yumemakura
(441)
Summary: With what may be Mallory's camera found and lost, photographer Fukamachi delves deeper into the life of the mysterious character Bikha Sanp -- the "Venomous Snake" -- convinced that he is, in...
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