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A painted house : a novel / by John Grisham by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type:  Text; Format:
large print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House Large Print, c2001
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 G.J.P 2001, ...
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Adam Bede / George Eliot. by Series: Everyman's library ; 59
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire’s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people’s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris,
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.8 E.G.A 1992.
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Barchester Towers / Anthony Trollope. by Series: Everyman's library ; 57
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992
Dissertation note: Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers -- struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect -- actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. Thai awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel and it transforms the story of a fight for ascendency among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral into something fundamental and universal.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.8 T.A.B 1992.
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Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Frank Kermode by Series: Everyman's library ; 172
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993
Dissertation note: Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 W.E.B 1993.
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California gold : a novel / John Jakes. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1989
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 979.404 J.J.C 1959.
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Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by A.C. Cawley ; with an introduction by Derek Pearsall. by Series: Everyman's library ; 74
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 821.1 C.G.C 1992.
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Caribbean by James A. Michener. by
Material type:  Sound; Format:
sound cassette
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fiction
Publisher number: - RH/100 Random House AudioBooks
Publication details: [United States] : Random House AudioBooks, p1989
Dissertation note: Only Michener could so masterfully bring the turbulent, dramatic history of the beautiful Caribbean to life. Moving from the European Courts of the 15th century that first claimed the region, to the Islands themselves, we watch the emergence of splendorous sugar plantations built on the backs of slaves; the bloody and victorious uprising in Haiti in 1800; and in modern times, the spread of the Rastafarian religion, the mass exodus from Cuba following the revolution and the general discontent of Caribbean nationales. Sprinkled throughout are fascinating portraits of historical heroes as they struggle against political, economic and racial oppression.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (3)Call number: 813.54 M.J.C 1989, ...
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Chesapeake : a novel / James A. Michener. by
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Dissertation note: In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one man’s dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 M.J.C 2003.
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Cracking the SAT II. Math subject tests / Jonathan Spaihts by
Edition: 1999-2000 ed
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Random House, 1999
Other title:
- Math subject tests
- SAT II, math
- Cracking the SAT 2.
- Princeton Review cracking the SAT II, math
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 510.76 S.J.C 1999.
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Decline and fall / Evelyn Waugh. by Series: Everyman's library ; 156
Edition: 1 ST
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 W.E.C 1993.
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Dubliners / James Joyce by Series: Everyman's library ; 49
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1991Distributor: Distributed by Random House
Dissertation note: Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication until 1914. In the century since, his story “The Dead” has come to be seen as one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language possesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are as beautifully turned and as greatly admired. They remind us once again that James Joyce was not only modernism’s chief innovator but also one of its most intimate and poetic writers.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 J.J.D 1991.
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Emma / Jane Austen ; with an introduction by Marilyn Butler. by Series: Everyman's library ; 36
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1991]
Dissertation note: The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives–for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton–and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured
Availability: Not available: Centeral Library: Checked out (1).
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Escape the night / Richard North Patterson by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1983
Dissertation note: ESCAPE THE NIGHT -a powerful novel of suspense and scandal, of surveillance and threat, of amnesia and obsession, of parents and children - and the long buried secret that links them all in a deadly chain.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 P.R.E 1983.
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Frankenstein unbound [by] Brian W. Aldiss. by
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York, Random House [1974, c1973]
Dissertation note: Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. This title was made into a film, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric and Michael Hutchence
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.914 A.B.F 1973.
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Gorky Park / Martin Cruz Smith. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1981
Dissertation note: "Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind." -The New Yorker A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything. "Once one gets going, one doesn't want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence." -The Washington Post
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 S.M.G 1981.
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