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Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Fiction City planning United States Grandparent and child Grandparenting Great Britain History Edward VII, 1901-1910 II, King of Mauretania Juba approximately 50 B.C.-approximately 24 A.D Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania Cleopatra 40 B.C.- Short stories, American United States Urban renewal United StatesBowles, Jane
Contents: Two serious ladies.--In the summer house.--Plain pleasures: Plain pleasures. Everything is nice. A Guatemalan idyll. Camp Cataract. A day in the open. A quarreling pair. A stick of green candy.--Other stories: Andrew. Emmy Moore's journal. Going to Massachusetts.--From the notebooks: The iron table. Lila and Frank. Friday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWBirkin, Jane
Contents: Je t'aime-- moi non plus = I love you-- me, not anymore -- L'anamour = The Love -- Orang outan = Orangutan -- Sous le soleil exactement = Underneath the sun exactly -- 18-39 -- 69 année érotique = 69, The erotic year -- Jane B (after a prelude of Chopin) -- Elisa -- Le canari est sur le balcon = The canary is on the balcony -- Les sucettes = The little sweets -- Manon -- La chanson de slogan.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light In the Attic Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BIRSummary: Illustrated with clips from movie and television adaptations of her novels, this program takes a visually rich approach to understanding the woman behind such classics as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. An extensive biographical and psychological profile of the author provides insight into what life was like for a woman in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Filmed at key...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Yolen, Jane.
Summary: This book includes retellings of four fairy tales paired with breakfast recipes connected to each story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alphabet Soup 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fairy YolenAusten, Jane
Summary: "For the first time, all three volumes of Jane Austen's brilliant early manuscripts are available in beautiful facsimile editions. Fan fiction from the eighteenth century-Jane Austen's stories are as fresh and fun today as they were when she wrote them. Forever immortalized as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first "books" as a teenager. Taking their names...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 AUSBarron, Stephanie.
Summary: "November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker extraordinaire, is about to declare bankruptcy dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While she's there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M BARDraycott, Jane (Jane Louise)
Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN DRADillenberger, Jane
Summary: "The first critical examination of Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed aetheist, his work employs themes of spirituality -- and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, the authors address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 DILMayer, Jane
Summary: Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.5 MAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 MAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.520973 MAYAusten, Jane
Summary: "History of England..." is an (20 p.) historical satire produced by 16-year-old Jane Austen. It is a spoof on the history of the British monarchy from 1399 to 1649. What you find are brief, opinionated pieces, ranging from two sentences on Edward V who "lived so little a while that nobody had time to draw his picture" to 19 sentences on Elizabeth, of whom "It was the peculiar misfortune . . ....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 AUSBowles, Jane
Summary: Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful ofstories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence onher contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer ofprose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of thefinest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BOWRoberts, Jane
Summary: The education of Oversoul Seven: Seven explores the true nature of his being as he learns to communicate with four of his 'incarnations' -- four all-too-human people whose lives are separated by centuries, yet who also coexist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amber-Allen Pub. 1995
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Summary: Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course. A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility and sails away in a starship made of light. Alice's wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YOLJacobs, Jane
Summary: The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. ... [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1 JACYolen, Jane
Summary: "The inimitable Jane Yolen has teamed up with Barbara Diamond Goldin (a prolific author in her own right) to retell Bible stories from the point of view of twelve women (in nine chapters, as some come in pairs). After each story, there is a reflection "imagine" piece written from the voice of each woman (written by Barbara) and a poem about her (written by Jane). Intermixed with the main text...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Belief YolenBarron, Stephanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGoodall, Jane
Summary: Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 GOOGoodall, Jane
Summary: At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned scientists, brings us new hope for the future of the animal kingdom. Goodall--along with Cincinnati Zoo director Thane Maynard and coauthor Gail Hudson--reveals fascinating survival stories about formerly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.68 GOOGardam, Jane.
Summary: Presents a collection of short stories, including "Pangbourne," "The Hair of the Dog," "Waiting for a Stranger," and "The Last Reunion."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARKramer, Jane
Summary: "Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent settlement in the Sahara for an afternoon interview with an old Berber woman toiling over goat stew, or to the great London restaurateur and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 KRABingham, Jane.
Summary: Does the patch of stormy sea between the tip of Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda hide a dark and frightening secret? For decades, there have been cases of ships and aircraft that seem to vanish in this part of the Atlantic Ocean. Others who have survived flying or sailing through, have reported strange occurrences, such as clocks and navigational instruments failing. Are all of these reports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Raintree 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.94 BINBrox, Jane
Summary: Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3209 BROKopecky, Jane
Summary: A small group of World War II political dissidents reveal how they survived what they called America’s Siberia Concentration Camp. Before the Vietnam War Americans considered conscientious objectors equal to criminals. This book sheds much needed light on the little known conscientious objector camp at Germfask, Michigan, how the local community responded to the camp, and how opinions have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Jane Kopecky] 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KOP1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 940.53 KOP
Ridley, Jane.
Summary: "Chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria's firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen."--Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013