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[2018] | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers | 408 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Mystery Williams, B |
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A "historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania... As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time to unravel a plot that will change the course of their own lives...and history itself"--
May 2013: Author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Breaking a promise to...
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1990, ©1970 | W.W. Norton | 411 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. | English |
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p2003 | Blackstone Audiobooks | 11 sound discs (ca. 13 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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[1999], c1970 | Thorndike Press | 696 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. | English |
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy is described.
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1977 | Norton | 348 p. : maps ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction O'Brian, P Main has 2 Fiction O'Brian, P Southside Fiction O'Brian, P |
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p1993 | Recorded Books | 12 sound discs (13.75 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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2004 | Blackstone Audiobooks | 9 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken Fiction O'Brian, P |
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Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command - until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains - Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity...
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2015. | First U.S. edition. | St. Martin's Press | 400 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2015. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 677 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which will give him the opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian Gulag in Siberia. His crime: writing a book Uncle Joe, which gives an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin. So determined is he to see Babakov released, Harry puts...
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1992 | W.W. Norton | 287 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p1994 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 9 sound discs (10.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken Fiction O'Brian, P |
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Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue...
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1992 | W.W. Norton | 382 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2005 | Unabridged. | Blackstone Audiobooks | 10 sound discs (ca. 10 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken Fiction O'Brian, P |
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has...
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c2005 | Standard format; collector's ed. | Distributed by New Video Group | 8 videodiscs (ca. 13 hrs., 20 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media has 8 Fiction Horatio |
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The A & E miniseries based on Forester's novels of Horatio Hornblower, following his career from a reticent midshipman to a self-assured and courageous officer.
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1991, c1978 | W.W. Norton & Co | 352 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Fiction O'Brian, P |
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2004 | Blackstone Audiobooks | 9 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy--and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes...
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2018. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 324 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Phillips, C Main Fiction Phillips, C |
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"Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream...
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[2017] | Widescreen ed. | Echo Bridge Home Entertainment | 2 videodiscs (473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Taboo |
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Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.
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1990 | Norton pbk. | W.W. Norton | 284 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Fiction O'Brian, P |
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Jack Aubrey, a former sea-officer in the British Navy and still bitter about his court-martial, agrees to take command of his old ship, the Surprise, which was sold to Dr. Stephen Maturin, who obtained a letter of marque to the use the ship as a privateer.
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2019. | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | xxii, 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers...
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[1999], 1985, ©1938 | Little, Brown | 323 pages ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Forester, C Main has 2 Fiction Forester, C |
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Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.
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2012 | 1st American ed. | HarperCollins Children's Books | 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Childrens - J Fiction Morpurgo, M |
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Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bell-boy at London's Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats, and soon the two are stowing away on the Titanic, where they are befriended by the Stanton family of New York.
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