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Owning Jolene / Shelby Hearon. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type:  Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1989
Dissertation note: Writing with her usual sensitivity aug mented by a larky comic strain, Hearon has created her most appealing heroine in what is arguably her best novel so far. From the time she was seven, Jolene Temple has been a pawn between her feuding parents, each of whom has become practiced in kidnapping her from the other.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 H.S.O 1989.
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Pale fire / Vladimir Nabokov. by Series: Everyman's library
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 N.V.P 1992.
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Playing for keeps : Michael Jordan and the world he made / David Halberstam. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1999
Other title: - Michael Jordan and the world he made
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 796.323092 H.D.P 1999.
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Plays, prose writings, and poems / Oscar Wilde. by Series: Everyman's library ; 42
Edition: Reprint edition.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1991
Dissertation note: ragedy takes hold as the cunning and hateful Iago drives the heroic Moor of Venice first to suspicion, then to homicidal rage against his love Desdemona, in one of the Bard's darkest plays.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 822.8 W.O.P 1991.
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Primary colors : a novel of politics / Anonymous. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1996
Dissertation note: A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern state
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 A.N.P 1996.
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Red Square / Martin Cruz Smith. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: "Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas....
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 S.M.R 1992, ...
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Rising sun : a novel / by Michael Crichton. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 C.M.R 1992.
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Robin Hood / adapted by Annie Ingle ; illustrated by Domenick D'Andrea. by Series: Stepping stone book classic
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
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Primary;
Publication details: New York : Random House, [2005]
Dissertation note: Life in Sherwood Forest has never been livelier than with this selection of tales of the fun-loving outlaw and his merry men. A fast-moving adaptation of the classic adventure will delight older slow readers as well as kids reading on grade level.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (4)Call number: 813.54 I.A.R 2005, ...
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Sacrifice of Isaac / Neil Gordon. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1995
Dissertation note: Probing complex issues of heritage and identity while rethinking assumptions about WWII heroism and villainy, this spellbinding tale recounts the dramatic search of a young man and woman for the truth of their intertwined family histories amid elusive legacies of the Holocaust and deadly
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 G.N.S 1995.
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The angel of darkness / Caleb Carr. by
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1997
Dissertation note: In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 C.C.A 1997.
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The awkward age / Henry James ; with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick. by Series: Everyman's library ; 152
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1993]
Dissertation note: Henry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a civilization in crisis. On the verge of what was to be his greatest period of creativity,
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 J.H.A 1993.
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The black stallion revolts; illustrated by Harold Eldridge. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
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Juvenile;
Publication details: New York, Random House [1953]
Dissertation note: When his wild black stallion revolts against the routine and schedule of stable life, becoming a killer and a threat, a plane crash thwarts Alec's plans to give the Black a free run in the desert and brings danger to both boy and horse.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 F.W.B 1953.
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The Bostonians / Henry James. by Series: Everyman's library ; 82
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992
Dissertation note: Henry James’s celebrated novel about a passionate New England feminist, her reactionary Southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wish to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that it speaks to us with a voice as fresh and vital as when the book was first published in 1886.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.4 J.H.B 1992.
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The burglar in the closet / Lawrence Block. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1978
Dissertation note: It's hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr's all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie's been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he's in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he's still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 L.B.B 1978.
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The complete poems / Andrew Marvell ; edited by George deF. Lord. by Series: Everyman's library ; 153
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., c1993
Dissertation note: Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. He was also a member of parliament, tutor to a ward of Oliver Cromwell's, a satirist and a friend and colleague of Milton's. Yet, apart from one or two anthology pieces like 'To his Coy Mistress'
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 821.4 M.A.C 1993.
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